The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-22
The Fashions.

Notwithstanding the appearance of
many other models, five and seven
gored skirts remain in great favor.
The fulness at the back of some of
these skirts is disposed in fan pleats;
on others it is adjusted by gathers
closely massed.
Military trimmings are elaborately
used on some of the guardsmen's Jack
cts of blue ladies-cloth of light weight.
The fronts flare in very stylish way,
and the pocket is finished with mar
row rundown collar and revers that
have graceful roll to the waist line.
The most stylish Leghorn hats are
trimmed with many short, very full os-
trich plumes, all white, all black, or
else in black and white mixtures, black
velvet ribbon ties, the clusters of feath-
ers near the brim and over the crown,
and on shepherdess shapes. The trim
ming is also carried to the back of the
hat. Pretty Leghorn hats worn re-
Gently by the bridesmaids at an out.of-
town wedding were laden with rose
vines, thorny stems, and velvety maid
en-hair fern mass about the crown and
down to the very edge of the brim.
The new parasols are more than
usually elaborate, which is saying a
great deal. These made of chiffon are
huge and billowy, both outside and in
side. That they have intermittent
spells of refusing to close is only to be
expected They are often made of two
colors, or two or three shades of one
color, and as the season advances
wherever smartly attired women do
congregate out-of-doors, the sight of
these vari-colored parasols accidentally
grouped will be one of the wonders of
the season. The majority look top
heavy and cumbersome, and so they
will prove. They are also expensive,
and sudden down pour of rain spells
destruction.
Transparent linen batistes in pale
tan, fawn, biscuit, and almond shades
are used by fashionable mOdistes, who
make them up over mauve, golden
green, or cherry red silk, trimming
them either with insertions and nets of
Irish guipure lace or with narrow
ruches of silk in rows. The sleeves
on some of these gowns are very close
to the arm it's entire length, banded
either with diagonal rows of insertion
or ribbon the color of the foundation
silk, and at the wrists and on the
shoulders are pleated ruches of silk to
match. Some of the round waists have
tucked plastrons and epaulets beyond
made of the batiste and bordered with
insertion, ribbon in rows, or one mar
row ruche.
White gowns, which are to rage all
summer, are being made up by city
tailors and dressmakers in crepe de
chine, India silk, bstiste, mousseline
de sole, grenadine and barege, for wa
tering-place dresses, for summer fetes,
dinners, and evening toilets, and in
plain and embroidered muslins, lawns,
linens, veilings, serges, mohair, piques,
and estamines for wear throughout the
day. One of the fancies already noted
is that of making white over the very
fashionable Spanish yellow Gin spite of
the wary, as, for instance, white crepe
de chine over yellow satin. A dress of
this coloring just made for tall, bril-
liant brunette, is composed OF two
kinds of the crepe de chine, one deeply
and wrought with heavy silky
threads, the other plain. The latter is
used for the tucked and shirred portions
of the gown, which is made up over
very elegant princesse slip of Spanish
yellow satin, cut half low in the neck,
with onlv slight crescent-shaped
on the shoulders. The
yoke and sleeves proper are made en-
iirely of lace of exquisitely fine pattern.
The lustrous, beautiful satin CLEANS
through the lace and the semi-trans-
parent crepe, giving it a lovely rides
cent effect. A fine knife-pleated
flounce of the satin is added TO the
foundation skirt, and the bottom of the
crepe de chine skirt has ruche of the
crepe and satin pleated up together as
a finish. A narrow, very elegant belt
of flne cut emerald, topaz, and onyx
stones, trimmed with creamy mock opals
and joined by links in gold filigree, will
be worn with this handsome toilet
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