The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-06-14
FASHION NOTES.

FASHION NOTES.
The short collet cape is more fash
ionable than the jacket.
The latest Partisan novelty in the
way of hat is called the Loie Fuller.
Mary Antoinette fichus, prettily
frilled and crossed over the chest are
revived.
The jacket most in favor is a short
Bolero of whipcord with revers like
those on gentleman's coat.
This years hats and bonnets have
usually two aigrettes instead of one.
Dogs ear bows ere much used.
The fan should be white and OF
feathers or lace, nothing so heavy as
satin being considered in good taste.
In these days of the wide brimmed
high hat, the narrow brim ones look
odd enough to be described as unique.
Skirts are trimmed with ruchings,
ruffles,. old time founces, bias bands,
Stimulating tucks, and milliners' folds.
Lace founces, precisely similar to
those seen in fashion books of the
earlier years of the century. will be
features of the summer costumes.
The neatest sleeves are much be.
rufaed, and sometimes the rufhes ex
tend from wrist to elbow quite as often
as they extend from the long shoulder
seam to the elbow.
India silks are very popular for
gowns for old and young, and as gay
colors are permissible for street wear,
the selection for young girls class
day gown is almost unlimited.
Curls and frizzes do not shade the
forehead as much as they formerly did.
This fashion gives the intellectual girl
a chance to show off her noble brow,
so to speak. 1t is not a fashion that
is universally becoming.
A pretty jacket for e young lady has
single breasted fronts of the REFER
style and turned over notched collar,
while there are convenient hip pock
cts, and the roomy coat sleeves are OF
the most comfortable design.
A decidedly stylish union of color is
pale blue and mignonette. A snowy
bonnet demonstrating this idea has a
brim of plisse blue chiffon and @ gar
land of the most natural looking sprays
of mignonnette encircling it's airy
crown.
The military cape, with it's low
shoulders, and reaching to the waist
line or little below, is among the
many capes worn. One Of this style
is of dark red cloth, and has two rows
of heavy black silk open embroidery
set in near the edge.
Some of our most prominent dress
makers are trying to bring back the Vo'
luminous dress skirts of long ago.
Bows of ribbon are placed ladder wise
down the left side of some skirts; 9TH
ers have festooned flounces OF lace With
bows set on at regular intervals.
For the little tots, tan and white
seem to be the favorite colors for out
door garments. A cloak for little
girl of five years, is of tan cloth, with
deep full collarette, edged with
quilting of tan ribbon, headed with
band of novelty braid of mixed colors.
Corsages of thin materials are gath
cred around a standing collar, are
slirred into the shoulder seams, or.to
puffed yoke. Shirred again at the
waist line, and invariably worn with q
ribbon belt or folds of surnh, they
prove most becoming to slender figures.
A stylish gown in cream batiste is
made over yellow silk. Insertions
three rows-of duchess lace trim the
full skirt, and q deep Aounce OF the
lace with q silk background finishes oti
the skirt ut the bottom, while tho
sleeves are ornamented with three deep
frills of lace.
What dainty blossom is the prim-
rose! The English Queen, it is said,
is SO fond Of this fresh smelling little
flower that she has the early blooms
under glass, SO that her rooms may bs
filled with the soft yellow before she
could otherwise hope foI them to
gladden. her eyes.
A novelty in shoes for evening wear
is made of heavy satin in the new shade
of heliotrope known as eminencc pur-
pie. Over the instep, lending itself to
the graceful curves of the foot, is q
large purple pansy, perfectly modelled
in shaded velvet, which combines all
the exquisite colors found in the nat
ural flower.