Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1883 — CURRENT FASHION NOTES. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT FASHION NOTES.

Every fashionable girl has now a banjo upon which she*plays ‘•darky” songs. The most fashionable women now endeavor to make each one of their letters in writing an inch in length and correspondingly broad. Dotted and tambour muslins, worn over color, with yards of lace and ribbons for trimming, are among the prettiest of toilets for the seaside. Slippers made of marabout feathers and lined with pink and blue satin are coming Into fashion. The heels are very high ana are plated with silver. The “cat-fan” is the newest It is made of the skin of a Maltese kitten, and very slightly stuffed. The tail of the kitten is used for th 3 handle. • Dokkeys will be driven at Long Branch this summer instead of ponies. They will be driven tandem, and long strings of gaylycolored satin ribbon substituted for the customary reins.