Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1883 — FASHIONS IN DRESS. [ARTICLE]

FASHIONS IN DRESS.

The newest material for wedding-robes is velvet-brocaded repped silk. An inside waist of the same shade should always be worn under the Jerseys. Stockings beaded with seed-pearl are a beautiful accompaniment to a white-satin* toilet * White camels’ hair, embroidered with four-oclocks and field daisies, Compose a lovely tea-gown exhibited up-town. The Mother Hubbard slip without sleeves, to be worn over an underwaist, is a convenient and pretty) fashion for little girls An effort has been made to introduce a “three-pointed” train In London, but not hanging gracefully it does not gain favor A novel design for a garden party invitation has a tennis-rack In blue in one comer and a pretty girl holding a parasol in theother. Sleeves have appeared again in eveningdress; tnat is, the shoulder strap is replaced with something that looks very like a short, puffed sleeve The almost universal use of white at Long Branch makes every hotel and cottage parlor look as though there were a ball m constant progress. Novel French veilings in cream and snowdrop white, and all of the latest sesthetio shades, come with silk broche figures in. Louis XTTI. designs. In the matter of fancy jewelry the palm mav be awarded to spiders. Jet, cut stiver, and jeweled t piders are seen in masses or ace, in bonnet strings, and in bowa New watering-place wraps for evening, of white cashmere or vigogne, elegantly embroidered In delicate colors, and lined with tinted surah, are cut with flowing Chinese* sleeved Transparent muslins are shown in exquisite tints of mauve, tea-rose, pale almond, sapphire blue and caAeo, with laurel blossoms, moss-buds, sweet-briar roses, strawberries and geraniums in single clusters scattered over the delicate ground. Black toilets, especially in airy fabrics, over either a black or bright-colored foundation, are now in the height of fashion. Bucb dresses are of black Chantilly, Spanish lace, brocaded grenadine, or silk gauze, trimmed with plaited flounces alternating with thoseof lace. One of the Hardest men to interview is Gen. Grant He sits up perfectly still and motionless in his chair, and stares with wideopen eyes straight ahead of him. His tips are pressed tightly together, and when neopens them to answer your question, clap they go together again like a trap He never does more than answer your question, and, when he don’t choose io answer it, stares straight ahead of him and pays no attention to a repetition. He used to talk very freely about nis horses, it is said Now the only thing a reporter can get out of him Mexico.