Omaha daily bee., 1893-08-20
'ash,earNotes.

There is a ragejfpt old silver at pres
ent.
Long pointed waists are promised for
dressy toilets. y n,
Some beautiful color work will be seen
in the ostrich feathers.
1t is predicted that the bal masque
will be popular nsextsseason.
Blue serges are yielding their popu-
larity to black, brown. green and red.
Farewell to tho pink tea, for it is said
that millinery ELECTS" have had their
day. a!,,,,
Emerald will beone OF the most popu-
lar greens and will be combined with
black repeatedly.
Old-fashioned null embroideries, such
as our grandmothers made their caps Of
are used this season for tichus.
Sun umbrellas are made of changeable
taffcta in very dark coloring and fur
nished with cherry or violet sticks.
Two-tone ideas will be seen in feathers,
in the facing of felt and velvet hats and
will be more or less wrought out in other
lines.
The black and white flowers, made Of
feathers or OF silk and velvet are per-
haps as genuinely new as anything
brought out.
Lace parasols are again in favor, and
many real lace covers are once more
| brought into use after having been laid
away for years.
French machine lace or the hand
made chant'lly is chosen for black para
| soils, and Is combined with chiffon or
with crepe de chine.
| Most fascinating are the new belts of
| kind of gold tissue interviewer with
many-colored silks and drawn through
| an old paste buckle,
| Silks show fanciful figured designs
rather than floral patterns. and spots,
| splinters and dashes obtain in rich and
harmonious color schemes.
| The changeabe effects, which, para
| doxically, have become terribly monot-
onous, are giving way little, though
the shot velvets will be used with fair
| freedom in millinery.
Lamps are now shown decked out with
marvellous shades of plated straw.
These are brilliant in color and eccentric
in shape, and bear strange, large bows
| of straw.
Flowers not only appear in black, but
when in colors do not follow natures
hues, though true in form. This freak
| is continuation of midsummer idea
already chronicled.
There is sudden revival of all the
rich and pale shades of brown, from au-
burn, chestnut, Vandyke, etc, through
the many handsome half tones, to beige,
fawn and pale amber brown.
Black and white in combination, the
liking for which is so notable now, will
be carried forward from the midsummer
costuming to that ,ef the autumn and
promises to claim more attention than
| for many seasons.
In the matter 81 color graduation the
fad of the wholesale openings will be
the two tone effects created by the abrupt
transition-that has little of gradation
in it-from the darkest to the lightest
shade of one color. o
One of Mrs. Langtry's favorite cos
tunes is deep esru muslin printed with
pale mauve flower sprays and touched
with pale mauve,yelyet. The hat is of
crocus mauve straw, trimmed with
mauve iris and grasses.
Blouse bodices, belted and serpentine
waists, and seamless waists, with plas-
irons, jackets and. lyokes, will continue
through the autumn, freshened up in
| style by some odd and fanciful touch that
makes them dlstinctitely new.
In materials there are all sorts OF two
toned fabrics, crepon effects in camefs
hair weaves, hop sacking with surface
effects, q great variety of silk and wool
goods, rough surfaced woods and those
with the silky pile of the Thibet goat.
The latest thing for underskirts is the
japanese material called ava cloth. 1t
comes chiefly in white, almost covered
with dark blue figures. 1t has almost
no perceptible weight, washes nicely
in fact has everything to recommend it
except beauty.
The newest sleeves are the Queen
Anne, with pear-shaped drapery falling
over the elbow, and Second Empire flow
ing sleeves, with the under sleeve OF
lace or lawn, which. gives such a dainty
air of gentility to even simple and in.
expensive costume. a.
Surpliced women choir singers have
Just been introduced into the Epiphany
church choir in Washington. They
wear plain gowns of white, with flowing
sleeves and deep edges of black. Or
their heads they wear simple toques
with tassel and cord.
1t is quite the fashion just now tc
wear the hair low in the neck, especially J
at the theater, but it is not becoming
style and is apt to detract from 8
and pretty girls the style is particularly
adapted. 1t belongs to the ingenue.
At recent fashionable wedding the
bridesmaids white satin dresses were
trimmed with silver spangled passemen
teries in the center. They wore large
picturesque green straw hats trimmed
with pink wild roses and white Ostrich
tips, the brims lined up with white lace
A forget-me-not luncheon is now giver
by the bridesmaids of an engaged young
woman in honor of her approaching
marriage. The decorations are all o
blue. the guests wear posies of the for
get-me-not dear to lovers, and the
flowers at the feast, all in blue, are ar
ranged In hearts and true lovers knots
The prettiest scarf mantelets are made
of accordion plated black silk muslin
with long stole fronts, confined with ;
jet buckle. The large rutfs of lace, tull'
or mousseline, called Henri H., Of
Valois, are also made to do duty witt
outdoor toilets on summer evenings
Some OF the black net rutfs are edged
with narrow white Ace.
With paniers, which SOME prophe
has promised for 1855. if not sooner, will
return the excrpciatingly tight lacinl
and the eighteen-inch waist of it
former reign. Already the reaction
from the Empire grace OF naturalness i
apparent in the nslenderness of th
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