Year: 1879

garden dress.


Almost any kind Of large bib or col
lar is fashionable now.


Small caps are more becoming to
most equestriennes than stiff silk hats.


Combine satin with black silk tfess
that is to be worn all the year round.


Violet tulle is great favor in London,
and it is thought to bring out the warm
tints in brown hair better than anything
else.


A pretty cottage bonnet Of white chip
has very large cluster of lilies Of the
valley placed just in front of the crown
and covering all the upper part of the
border, and bows and strings Of pale
satin ribbon.


Little children still wear the princesse
dress; it has killed plaitings at the bot
tom, forming sort of founce, and just
above this the scarf sash is set, some
times held in place by being passed
through straps made Of the trimming
used on the dress.


There is no need of plating at the
foot of a widows Grape dress. 1t should
be merely turned up underneath about
two inches, and sewed to the facing. The
palmer such dress is, the. more ele-
giant. The widows vail may be thrown
over the hat almost as deep in front as
behind, or it may be fastened on the
crown and hang very long in front.


A short suit of twilled tan or gray de-
bege will be useful for travelling dress.
Make it with basque and simply draped
overskirt, merely stitched on the edges
for trimming. If you put fanciful silk
bindings on it, and a vest, the silk will
be defaced before your summer Of travel
is over. Have some white waists to take
the place OF your basque at times, and
then have a slender long Ulster of Eng
lsh homespun cloth in small black pat
tern.


Instead Of straight scarls Of black lace
to wear around the neck in the street,
there are small 6chus OF black net edged
with lace and arranged like iabot in
front. These are also worn in the house,
and ladies who find it becoming add a
standing frill of black lace for the neck,
and do not use white at all. The fancy
seems confined to black or white for
trimming the neck; almost the only COL
ored neckties sold are those of polka
dotted satin, to wear with very plain
costumes.


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Cotton laces in snowy effective pat
terms are much used for trimming mus
lin and cambria dresses. What is called
Byzantine point is liked for such pur-
poses, as it washes well, and initiates the
rich designs of antique laces. The Rus
sian laces in braid like patterns are still
popular, and cost from twenty cents to
sixty cents yard. Cluny lace is again
much used for children's pique and
bunting dresses, and there is a good
zeal of fine Irish tatting for trimming.
Point Raguse lace is used on bonnets as
well as dresses; this has the fine regu-
lar meshes Of thread lace, with the pat
tern applied and held by button-hole
stitching; the designs are like those Of
point applique lace. This lace and Bre.
ton are preferred for trimming very nice
dresses of white muslin or of the white
gauze bunting. The black French laces
known as limitations Of thread laces are
now given whatdealers call the thread
finish, by weaving them in irregular
meshes that canscarcely be distinguished
from those of handmade laces. These
are to be laid in knife plaitings, and
the designs are mostly with refer
enoe to this, having space between the
wrought figures, which are narrow and
lengthwise. The trimming widths vary
from one and a half to five inches, and
cost from thirty to sixty.fve cents
yard. Black Breton lace is shown in
similar patterns, and is very stylish for
edging walls and neckties, and for trim
ming bonnets. 1t is, however, very
frail, and the meshes are as slight as
slight as those of tulle, so that it has
not proved very useful or effective for
dress trimmings. Beaded laces, to
brighten up plain black chips or tulle
bonnets, cost from $l.5O upward. Both
jet and gold beads are used. AS the
beads simply outline the design, ladies
can easily modernize laces, they have on
hand by sewing on fine cut jet beads.
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