Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1878 — Fashion Notes. [ARTICLE]

Fashion Notes.

Silver back combs are again in vogue. It is the style to wear a large bouquet in the belt.

Iceland floss is much used for crocheting shawls and sacques. Glove flirtations are now added to those of the fan and handkerchief. The materials most fashionable for the wedding gown of the present are silk or satin brocade. Rough straw hats and bonnets look well nicely braided, with pipings of velvet between the braids. Half-flowing sleeves, with old-fash-ioned lace undersleeves, are seen on some of the new costumes. White suits have the fronts cut open diamond shape and caught with manycolored loops of narrow ribbon. Thick fringes of buds falling from under the straw curtains of bonnets is a new caprice of fashion. A novel bonnet is composed entirely of bunches of purple grapes, with green leaves and tendrils intermixed. The cheap grade of black glace silks are now being used for traveling suits, instead of the gray bege suitings. These do not retain the dust and are always in taste. A plain linen collar, with culls, completes the costume.

Waterloo bridge, one of the finest aud most elegant bridges crossing the Thames, has latterly become so insecure that it will have either to be repaired at an enormous cost or else pulled down. It was built soon after the celebrated battle, and opened with great ceremony by George IV. J