The record-union., 1897-09-05

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A new sailor hat hailing from Paris
has a full crown and straight brim,
all of batiste; the batiste is covered
almost entirely with an applique Of
lace.
Like the skirts and sleeves, the neck
bands and bows which have been a
prominent feature Of fashion for so
many seasons are considerably reduced
in size on bodices made by exclusive"
dressmakers who exclude a detail of
dress the moment it becomes general.
The new models have narrower folded
bands with very modest friIls of lace
or chiffon above, or else two Vandykes
of moire velvet or silk.
Jeweled parasol handles are too COM
mon to be novel, but the latest idea in
Paris is to tip each little spike at the
end of each rib with a mock gem.
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Every celebrated atelier in Paris and
London and every high-class modiste
in America will next season make great
use of the new. extremely elegant drap-
cry nets, employing them not alone for
fancy bodices and garnitures, but for
dress toilets entire. Very lovely French
dresses of fancy silk net or fancy gren-
adine over satin, taffeta, or MORE have
already been worn at fashionable sum-
mer resorts. The trimmings for these
handsome gowns consist of ruches and
pleatings of silk, muslin, and the rich
est of black laces and beaded ornaments
in points, rows, and in applique. All
styles of Venice laces with nets and in
sertions, jacket and sleeve pieces to
correspond in Plauen or st. Galle-made
varieties, will be used to decorate sheer
beautiful textiles draped over satin, and
to garnish repped and taffeta silks and
many other elegant evening fabrics. In
black laces, among choice Calais pro-
auctions, are tempting patterns in Eng
lish embroidery and very beautiful de-
signs in point applique.
Pale blue ostrich feathers are the lat
est fads in millinery and are found on
many of the French hats, rising softly
from a scarf of fine tulle.
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Vandykes in both large and small
points, bands Of black guipure inser-
ton, silk cord appliques resembling
either braidwork or embroidery in their
patterns, slight draperies, narrow vel
vet ribbon, accordion leated frills, tiny
ruches in one or many rows, milliners'
folds, gimps, galloons. and stitched
bands, viii each and all appear as trim
mings on the fronts, sides, or around
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autumn season.
The popular paper-chase on bicycles
is taking gay parties of Londoners out
into the rur<I districts, where there is
much more latitude in dress than in
town. As a consequence there is in
evidence decided abbreviation of bicy-
Gle skirts, which is filing the sedate
British matron with terrible fears of a
coming reign of French wheeling cos
tunes.
A smart little gown copied from a
French design modelled as a costume
to wear early next season is made OF
dark laurel green Saxony cloth 1t
has the new three-piece skirt and a
dainty little coat bodice, each lined
with a deep rich shade of Guaranteed
taffeta silk. The coat has tiny tabled
fronts, and the vest is of checked jac-
guard silk on red and green, crossed
with hair lines of gold-colored satin
The dropping fullness of the silk is
drawn down slightly below the waist
under belt of dark red leather fas-
tened with a gold buckle.
In Paris the hair is brought up quite
to the top of the head, where it is
formed into a knot; but it stands out
well around the face and is frizzled al
the back.
For autumn wear are very handsome
models in black silk of the new highly
repped weave, made with a round
waist. trimmed with black velvet rib
bon in rows. and yoke of white lace
applique IN rich guipure designs. The
skirt is in the latest three-piece bell
shape, which has bias seam down the
back.
The fashion of wearing lace over
dresses or lace applique for trimmings
Is UNIVERSAL across the water one eX-
tremely fetching gown is of black net
with an applique of cream lace all over
It; it is mounted on white glace silk TO
bring out delightful sheen A linen
bodice has a bolero of cream lace.
A very pretty tint prevails among
fashionable colors that is much like the
pink and rosy purple mixture of the
sweet-pea blossoms. Lilac de Perse''
is its name, but it is quite different from
the metallic purple of the ordinary IL
laos. It's range extends from the tulles
and exquisite dress gauzes, chiffons,
silk muslins, organizes. summer satins,
foulards, crepe de Chine, sheer wool
textiles and zephyr ginghams on TO
garnitures on summer hats and bon
nets, as we'll as TO the very straw itself.
for straw this season has been dyed in
a variety Of very beautiful tints. the
present style of fancy braids showing
off the delicate coloring to great adj
vantage. All the fashionable shades
of green appear among plain and fancy
straws-the deeper and lighter hues OF
this dainty Persian lilac, rose-petal.
Reranium pink silver gray, faWn, the