Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-20

! whims. and dainty pockotbooks are made OF
mauve. green. blue and brown leather.
Beautiful dress" toilets OF black.silk
| grenadiue are made up with bodice trtm>
mings OF white or mauve satin oyerlaid with
very elegant designs In Venetian lace,
One OF the many Jubilee soverelgns is an
| umbrella with a Dresden handle, decorated
with gold and a potrait OF Queen Victoria ih
her coronation robes, copied from picture
at Windsor castle.
Tiny sea shells are the latest decoration
on some Of the new gallons aud embroideries
with beads. silver and gold threads and mar
row ribbons so much employed in the seasons
| trimmings.
"Tyrolean hats OF the brigaud shape" are
| considered by English women to be the best
and most becoming for cycling. and the brims
and crowns are often OF constra sting color.
Canvas hats too, are often very much
| favored.
A pretty chemisette vest for foulard and
harege gowns is made of white mousSelne de
| sole, striped across with little frills of mar
row cream lace headed by one row OF mar
| row black velvet ribbon,
! For ev aniug dress young girls wear wreaths
OF flowers in their hair, which Is arranged
high un the head. Forget -me nots are very
pretty and narrow wreath OF green leaves
| is often very becoming.
skirts hounced from the hem to the waist
with rufles shaped that they require no
gathers and edged with narl ow cream lace are
decidedly the latest fancy and are especially
effective in giace silk.
A stylish bicycling hat has a sailor brim
| of Panama st,aw and a Tam O'Shanter
| crown of accordion plated canvas. and Is
trimmed with band of velvet, rosette
of turquoise blue satin and two black
quills
Red. which is such popular color this
| season, needs great care in making selec-
| ton, as 1t is either very becoming or very
| vulgar as it harmonizes or is discordant
element in it's effect on the woman who
| wears it,
| Double and triple hounced skirts OF grad
| uated depth are noted among new summer
| dresses for day wear They are made sever
| ally of foulard silk colored linen, chambray
plain colored French zephyr goods, batiste
| and dimity. Each flounce is finished with II
hem and cluster of narrow tucks.
| Very pretty beach and mountain suits are
| made of dark blue etamine with revers and a
portion OF the round waist and sleeves formed
of embroidered grass linen in openwork de.
| signs. The, fancy for ecru, tan and flax
| colored linen continues again this year, and
| almost every day some novelty of this de-
scription appears.
| A very new, wiry stuff not unlike etamine
in weave, only much sitter, comes in all the
| bright shades and is much used as facings or
| for puff set into the upper edge of the
| crowns of the hat Brown, with green puff
| way, the hats almost without exception are
| faced.
| Very attractive and dainty arc the exqui-
| sitely sheer Swiss muslin dresses made up
| over crisp. lustrous. white taireta silk. A
| lovely model is made with Vandyke trim
| mings formed Of Valencienncs insertion and
| lace. Very deep points to match are in
| serted in the seams on the front and side
| breadths of the gored skirt.
A. wise authority asserts tha; revolution
| in millinery is going on that the large hat
| Is not among the latest novelties. ana that
| the proper thing is the medium shape, round
| and fiat trimmed round the crown, with no
! assertive osprey, or aigrette OF ribbons,
| flowers or lace at the side. When teachers
| are used they are arranged to droop the
| hair at the side.
The new silk petticoats of brocade al d
| light shot silks are from three to three and a
, half yards around, made with one deep
| founce from the knee. trimmed with lace
| edge, and rows Of insertion between clusters
| of tucks. wide founce with a narrow
| rutile on the edge. falnng over a double
| ruche on the skirt, Is a favorite mode of
| trimming, as it assures the full effect at
| the bottom.
Nearly all blouse bodices are made to
| pouch over the waist-band or girdle, whether
| this girde band be carried almost to
| the arm-pits or be nicely the narrowest
| of belts, This style makes the slenderest
! figure, however Long wasted, look clumsy,
| but the droop of the material in the imme-
date front alone gives the effect of point,
| and adds length to a short waist To mar
| row figures, the full double fril carried
down the front, narrowing it nears the
| waist, or, some frlls do, terminating mid
way, is exceedingly becoming.
The modified sleeve grows prettier and
more fascinating in style as it appears
| formed of all the sheer and dainty summer
| textiles and garnitures Never were models
more of happy medium contour, or more
appropriately trimmed than now. The new
shapes and effects are legion. The founda-
tion or basis of most of the popular styles
is closely fitted shape encIsing the arm like
a long glove, either fiat and very close il
| the arm is plump, or wrinkled its entire
length If over-sender. The best models are
silk lined, and hav3 an under-arm piece
| that IS, the sleeve is made with two seams
The afternoon costumes of ecru linen,