Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-21
Fashion Notes.

The old fashion of tucks has been revived
in the muslin and batiste gowns.
SILK dresses OF every sort flourish as never
before. and as the season advances India
foulards are more and more In evidence.
White buckskin shoes are the popular
thing with white gowns. and pipeClay used
as a polish will keep them in their pristine
| freshness.
Stylish black silk grenadines are made up
with white satin corsage garnitures nearly
covered with cut Jet and s~pangled arabesque
passementeries.
Double skirts of equal length are noted
among new summer dress models Tor day
wear. Each skirt is finished with a hem and
three or four tucks above the hem.
Silky batiste and sheer grass linen lawn
are for the moment the leading materials
for the making Of stylish and elegant gowns
designed for dressy wear on sultry days and
evenings.
made coats and skirts. The vest is full and
loose and is arranged in a series of tucks
with lace insertion and narrow edging be-
tween the tucks.
Grass linen handkerchief are the latest
development of the craze for this hay-Colored
material, which, unless relieved with some
complementary trimming, is unbecoming to
nine-tenths of the women who wear 1t.
Vandykes in both large and small points,
bands of insertion, narrow bebe ribbon. in
rows, festooned tounces, milliners' folds,
tiny ruches, and triple frills, all appear on
the sides, fronts or at the hens OF the
newest dress skirts.
Round bodices are decidedly the fashion
and quite the delight of the slender woman
because they are so youthful, but many OF
the waists are made pointed back and front,
laced around with crosswise plaits, and
fastened at the side or in the back.
The silk gown will not be such a coveted
article of dress, because of the price, If the
new artificial silk made from wood proves a
success. 1t is now being developed in
Switzerland, and is so nearly like the
product Of the silkworm that it is difficult TO
distinguish the difference.
A pretty little French gown of cream
white India null is trimmed on the bodice,
skirt edge, and sleeves with small frills of
the null bordered with two rows of cream
white satin ribbon OF the narrowest width
that is made. The effect is dainty and
girlish.
Pink is the prevailing color in much Of the
summer millinery. and pink straw hats, pink
roses and pink tulle abound. Another popu-
lar color is green, in all the divers shades
Imaginable, and pale lime green straw
trimmed with blue or purple is one Of the
son.
In all the latest wool and taffeta silk
gowns the diminution in size of sleeves and
fullness of skirts is very decided. but in all
the thin gowns the SklrtS are sun very lull,
with plenty of decoration in the way of in
s%ertiOns of lace both in the seams and
around the bottom, or Tufies set on straight
around or in scallOps.
The coat and skirt gown of butchers blue
linen. faced on the edge with butter-colored
batiste caught with crosswise lines of tiny
COLO buttons set in at intervals, is a charm
ing summer dress. The coat with an Elton
front ard a basque frill in the back is
pretty for this, worn with a white tulle vest
and a gold belt.
Buttons of all descriptions are a dis
tinctirc feature OF the latest gowns, and
small mocnstone buttons are profusely used
on silk gowns. Added to these are the china
and enamelled buttons, miniature and rhine
stone buttons, all rather expensive, but very
pretty, and not altogether eXtrayagant, be-
cause they can be shifted from one gown to
another.
Tan, in all the varying shades, is still a
popular color for canvas gowns, and made
over pale blue silk, with a wide black satin
belt. and a vest front made of a black
Madras silk handkerchief, covered with a
cone pattern in blue, green and red, the
gown is stunning. Two ends of the hand
kerchief, trimmed with black lace, fall
below the belt.
on either edge with narrow ecru guipure,
is a pretty trimming for a grass lawn gown.
1t is set in rows around the skirt and
stripes the waist from neck to belt, while
| IN bltSNtS, WHICH 5lOulu ne tlBnI HtlluS,
are also trimmed from the shoulder to the
wrist with these bands, and a short pun
draped up in the middle finishes the top.
India mulls of exquisite texture and sheer
white linen lawns and organizes are lhade
up in simple charming styles this season,
with skirts finished with a very deep hem
and one row of lace insertion above. the
sleeves close to the arm from the wrist to
three inches or so above the elbow, the fore
arm nearly covered with diagonal rows of
lace insertion.
There are many beautiful tints of green
among the summer dress fabrics, and pink
is charmingly combined with these dyes.
1t is a question yet to be solved how these
delicate dyes will resist the onslaught of
the American laundress. but there is no
doubt that the shades are all particularly
restful to the eye in midsummer and as
charming as they are restful.
Very many of the new washable gowns
are made full all round-a style known at
the dressmaker's as the house maids
skirt" Sometimes there is a very deep
hem, again two, three or five narrow frills,
one tapping the other. These frills are set
on with a fine cord and serve a double ur-
pose; they keep the dress from falling in
about the feet and certainly tend to en-
bellish it.
White muslin necEties tucked In points
at the end and trimmed with Valenciennes
lace are among the French novelties, and
black and plaid neckties are also mueh
worn by the Parisians. 1t is in all the
little accessories of dress that French
women especially excel. and the balayeuse
in their skirts. their wells, gloves and neck
frills, and how they put them on, are all
OF special Importance to them, which is
more than half the secret of their success
in dress.
Feminine Notes.
Mrs. Lee Willard Hill, who is going TO
Cuba to care for the sick and wounded in
surgents, is a cousin Of General Fitzhugh
Lee.