Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1878 — Fashion Notes. [ARTICLE]

Fashion Notes.

Pocket handkerchiefs are very small. Black satin is becoming fashionable again. Gold trimmings never look well by daylight. Back draperies grow beautifully less and less. No overskirts are seen on fashionable costumes. Belts are worn with pleated or Grecian corsages. Pleated waists with and without y®kes are coming in vogue. Cutaway jackets will be worn by young women this spring. There will be much costlier toilets worn ah the balls and receptions given after Lent than were at those before the penitential season. Long, narrow trains, either perfectly square at the end or rounded to describe a lozenge pattern on the floor, are de riguer at the moment. Ball dresses are either long trained fourreaux, or Princess or Empress dresses ; or if made with basques they simulate the dress in one piece. Gauntlet gloves, with the monogram on the back of the hand embroidered in silk and picked-out gold threads, are among the novelties in gloves. Fringes of raw silk chenille, with strands of beads of the same color, appear on many of the handsomest ball dresses intended to be worn after Lent. Crepe batiste is one of the novelties for summer dresses. It is a thin linen fabric woven in crape effects. It comes in all delicate shades of pure bright color for evening wear. Opera mantles of raw silk bourette, in delicate shades of color, are threaded with lines of gold and silver, and trimmed with chenille and gold and silver fringes to match. Wide galloons of silk, and velvet, and plush mixtures are seen on ball toilets in delicate colors, shot with threads of silver and [ old, or seeded with Roman pearl or fine glass beads.— New York Sun.