Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1883 — FASHIONS IN DRESS. [ARTICLE]

FASHIONS IN DRESS.

For the Ladles, Bra buckles are all the rage. Leather fans are in high favor. Mourning fans are edged with crape, Even man ties are made of plaid stuffs. Oashmebels the popular early spring dj?<* fabric. >’■ Gay colors in costumes are worn only ip the house. Brides’ dresses are made with elegant simplicity this season. Gold thistles and gold bum are the latest millinery and hair ornaments. » 1 Alicante brown and Soldat red are popular new shades of these colors. Amber, topaz and all yellow stones are in vogue for ornamental jewelry. Chicken down—the color of the newlyhatched—is the latest shade of yellow. Leather buckles appear among new ornaments for hats, bonnets and dresses Sleeves of street costumes remain tight and plain, and are larger than last season, Plaid skirts worn under plain fabric polonaises and overdresses are In high favor. Both high and low chignons are worn by fashionable women, but they must be small Long shell or metal hair-pins take precedence of all other ornaments for the coiffure. The bridal coiffure most in favor is wavy in front and braided into a close knot in the back.

For the Gentlemen. Business Suits.— Scotch homespun plaids, worsteds and cassimeres, of neat small checks and mixed threads of colors, are used for the entire suit—coat, vest and trousers—worn by men during business hours. The goods with red, brown and green threads, woven together to produce quiet, dark efr fecte, are most liked. The plain, whip-cord worsteds in many different dolors, olive, gray and brown shades, will be much worn by fashionable young men. The cheviots, melton and soft goods generally are double stitched on the edge three-eighths of an inch, but the worsteds and finer goods are bound wide with braid laid on flat, which produces a good effect ■ The three and four buttons cut-away is still as popular as ever, as is also the four-button sock coat; but fashion seems to favor a’ change from the high-ent style of dress to a low roll showing the shirt bosom with one stud and a neck Dress Sults.—ln full dress there has been a tendency to change a little from the conventional black cloth to the wale cord dr fine diagonals of French manufactura The coat is made with a very small cord binding on the edge, the size of a steel knittingneedle, which gives it a fine finish. The vest is cut with four buttons, and has a serpentine braid laid on about one-fourth of an inch from the edge. Vests will be made mostly with a rolling collar, but some still prefer them without The stylish vest for a change is the figured wiik or cashmere in gold and black. Small checks and fine stripes in dark colors will be chosen for trousers thia season. All high-colored goods will be avoided by well-dressed men. The trousers are cut medium, that is, neither tight nor loose, and, in all cases, pantaloons intended to wear with a full dress suit are made with the pocket in the top seam instead of on the side or in the corner, as in others, and no plstotpocket The frock coat will be worn to some extent, with a low roll to show the shirt-bosom, as in the of buslness-coata In fact, it may be said that the high-but-toned style of dress will soon have seen Its day. The browsers have a stripe down the outside t-eam on the leg, made of silk braid for young men, or of slight cord for elderly g an tiemen.

For the Children. Platted bonnets are still worn by younger children. , , _ Little girls wear bonnets with the rolled front, lined with deeply-shirred sajin, but these are less-suitable as the sun becomes stronger, and we advise all mother to select shady hate for the sake of the eyes. A great change is noticeable in hats. The most fashionable, and certainly most becoming, is the Fisherman’s poke, in Leghorn, which may be effectively trimmed with a bunch of tips of the game shade as the straw and faced with a deep shirring of satin a shade deeper in color. The English walking hat has given place to the-Lexington, a remarkably pretty shape in double Dunstable straw, which should be trimmed in black velvet, two narrow plaitings around the edge and a large bow and steel ornament confining a long feather which falls over the bock of the hair. The Jersey waist is more popular than ever. It is worn in bright colors, and is equally effective wit ha Airt of plain material or of plaid. For little. boys. plaid tunics are much liked or a kilted skirt of dark Plaid Is accompanied by a short tabbed jacket of dark green or dark blue cloth. Flannel suite for boys are now moreoftpn In invisible green than in the dark blue which has been popular so long. Knickerbocker suite of mixed materials are finished off with fine, narrow, mohair braids down the trousers, and small buttons. The coatee has side-pockets, bound in braid of the same kind. Velveteen is much less worn this season, tweeds, fine check, cheviot cloths and kersemeres being preferred. Flannel suite for little girls and misses are made of fine cheviot flannel, and are either in garnet or dark greens; blues, either light or dark, are less fashionable, while grey flannel Is only made up in combination with darker shades of the same material. Stockings to match the combination dresses are selected to correspond with the self-colored material rather than with the plaid, and are worn of delicate shades.