St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-02
FASHION NOTES.

Black Bourbon Iaces come in widths
from three to fifteen inches.
Dressy suits are made of nuns yelling
trimmed with ribbons and lace.
Black bonnets are composed of fancy
horse hair and straw balls or buttons.
Shaded velvets are quite as popular for
summer as they were during the winter.
As millinery trimmings, when judiciously
used, nothing can be more elegant and
desirable.
A popular combination is very fine
French cloth with sleeves, belt and
shoulder rutlles of shaded velvet.
Sleeves have reached their limit and
the most approved models are less bal
loon-like than heretofore.
A simple and stylish travelling costume
is CT Harris tweed made with Il Russian
blouse, tlariug EN- ire skirt, very full
sleeves and belt embroidered in mohair
braid. The same braid ornaments the
foot of the skirt.
Kid belts are of many designs in the
round and bodice shapes, and this prom
Uses to be splendid season for them.
Pretty straw hats in pale violet are
trimmed with gold lace, green velvet
and single pink rose.
Snow flake woolens, sackings, ging-
hams, lawns and aspen fabrics for sum-
mer are everywhere exhibited. 1t is an
anachronism, at least, to pattern tulips
with ow-hakes.
Sleeves are running to extremes. The
wider they are and the further they can
project from the shoulders the better
the wearer seems to like it.
Black Bengaline, Ottoman faile and
other shining lusterless corded silks are
greatly used for church, reception and
visiting dresses.
The pretty fashion of wearing dainty
bodices of colored silk both in the day
time and in the evening seems likely to
be in vogue this season. Some of the
rrettiest new bodices possible to imagine
or describe are being shown. They are
delightful in color and arrangement and
novel in shape and style.
What is called "white wool grenadine''
is a new material that has appeared for
evening dresses.
The newest handles for sunshades
break forth into blossoms of various
kinds One will have violets, another
blush roses, or, perhaps, buttercups
The flowers are made of some substance
which gives them frmness and natural
effect.
1t would be most interesting reading
if some of the writer's, who profess to
know of economical young women who
get up entire costumes of the most at
tractive sort for six dollars and twenty
five cents, would give information on the
ways and means for doing this. Such
articles will not, as a rule, bear very
close investigation.
The revival that promises decided
popularity is the old-time lony-skirted
BASQUE which is not unlike the Chester
field Jacket of twenty five or thirty years
ago. The lower edge of the jacket is
trimmed with fiat fold or may be
finished with passementerie or merely
left plain and stitched, according to
fancy.
Lace and embroidery, embroidered lace
especially, will be among the leading
trimmings for the summer. There seems
to be no limit to the ways in which these
beautiful garnitures are used, as some
thing new is brought out almost every
day.
Parasols seem to have become merely
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enormous quantities of lace and other
thin materials. The amount of goods
that may be put into one of the fashion
able parasols of the day is almost past
belief.
New jackets have sleeves large enough
to accommodate the enormous putfiness
of the dress shoulders, and while this,
of course, accentuates the size of the
arm, that fact seems to be no objection.