The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-02-26
Fashion Notes.

One of the prevailing fashions in
full dress is the wearing of exceeding.
ly long, wrinkled sleeves, with low.
cut or half-low bodices.
Gray and green and black have been
highly favored colors for seasons
past, and now blue is making o bid
| for marked favor next season.
In baby jewelry one may buy sets OF
pins with pearls or turquoises set in
dulled gold, armlets Of old-fashioned
coral, and sets of studs linked to.
gether by slender gold chain to serve
as buttons for dresses.
Blue in many tones and eemi.tones
will appear among every style Of plain
or fancy dress goods and jacketings.
It is beautiful dye in many Of it,
deeper shades, but no color needs
more careful selection.
The latest design for finish to the
waist of gown is the closely folded
velvet girdle that has great corsage
bow on the left side, drawn through
a jeweled buckle. 1T rivals the jew.
eled belt and the sash in favor.
The maiden who has q slim waist
may let it be known that she is not
averse to sashes when the question OF
Birthday presents is under discus
sion. There are uncoupted novelties
in these graceful dress accessories,
and, although gay colors would hardly
be becoming worn by fat or short
wasted woman, they are charming
additions to the costume OF tall or
slender one.
| Tiny rings and bracelets and strings
of gold beads are worn by many babies,
and rings of polished silver are what
the modern baby cuts her pearly teeth
upon. Silver rattles are Of all shapes
and sizes. Some are like miniature
tambourines, with many jingling bells;
others have dolls heads on top OF an
ivory stick, and others have grotesque
faces or heads Of dogs or cats wearing
collars of bells.
/ Among the handsome fabrics that
will be highly favored for tailor:made
; costum es next season are fancy Oxford
cuttings in tri-color melanges, boucle
efforts in French camel's hair. light ae
India cashmere and soft as down,
numbers of very stylish novelty goods
genuine Scotch cheviots, English
: serges and diagonals, and creped cloth
in colors medium and dark, and il
light spring qualities.
For wear at small social function:
: and for the theatres cloth gowns are
. in order, not of course, in dark shades
but in some pale, blue, gray or mastit
. cloth. The fancy is to make thu
, bodice quite dressy with q guimpe
. and some sort of bolero, trimmed
! with rows Of velvet ribbon. Mos
. dressy frocks are now made so thu
they can be worn with or without
guimpe, thus answering for both day
= and evening.
a Some of the new hyacinth, iris, sap
phire, lobelia and similar new tint
: are quite as trying as violet or hello
a trope. but when becoming shade ii
!, once found, there are few colors tina
q are more becoming to the wearer, or tina
a can easily be made SO by the introduc
= ton of alittle cream'color, mixture o
white or blue, or touch Of soft pinl
!. or ruby red near the face. This ret
. must be no half-measure, but brilliant
with not trace of dull garnet in it.
+ A sash of plaid ribbon, in whicl
n red and white. predominant, is edge
y with q zig-zag insertion Of black lac
J. and ruf1ed with black chiffon. An
n other, made of satin.stripped moir
j. ribbon, has girdle Of crushed ribbo'
It caught in at the front by hoop Q
II cut steel. The ends of the sash ar
j. joined together by strip Of black in
!. sertion about one inch and half wide
i A rufle of black chiffon about thre
n inches deep forms bias finish to tn
q end of the sash and is duplicated mic
d way between the waist and the end