Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1882 — Fashion Notes. [ARTICLE]

Fashion Notes.

She may dress in silk or may dress In satin, May know the languages Oieek and Latin, May know fine art, may love and sigh— But she ain’t no good if she can’c make pie. —[Exchange. Small buttons are stylish. New buttons are ball shaped. ~ Lace figured ribbons are new. Sunflower yellow is very dark. Debutantes’ boquets are of lilies-of-the-valley. Cords are festooned on the basque of cloth dresses. Ribbed Jersey cloth is reported for spring wraps. New satins come in primary colors, red and yellow. Shirred white surah chemissettes are in new dresses. Imported dresses have long waists and are bouffant. American pearls are cut iu grotesque designs for gentlemen’s scarf pins. Garnet Scotch gingham, checked with blue, makes pretty summer dresses. Alsatian peasant hats will continue in fashion fur spring and summer. Glove kid, with patent leather foxing, is the fashionable shoe for the street. Crushed roses without leavc-s are massed as side pancles or borders on tulle dresses. Low English heels are now used as ladies’ walking suoes—a great change for the better. The most elegant white wash dresses of the coming summed will be of linen lawn and sheer linen cambiics, soft as Indian mu-din and almost as transparent. Bouquets of Larage roses or other flamboyant flowers are worn directly in front of the corsage. Similar flowers of less size adorn the hair. Tue fair wearers of the fashionable flaming red kid gloves must continually feel with Lady Macbeth that their hands, like hers, would “the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green—one red.” White, cream, pale-rose, aud skyblue nun’s veiling, cashmere aud chudda cloths make lovely, inexpensive reception dresses when combined with moire, plush, satin, or brocade of the same color and shade. iEsthetic neckerchiefs consist of a square of blue, olive green, or mauve mull muslin with brightroses, pansies, and other flowers in exaggerated sizes, but nature’s own colors printed on them. Simple wide hems all around, and no lace on them, is the correct style. Panier draperies and high-back draperies obtrude in evening costumes. Some of these pauiers are merely deep puffs of tulle or gauze curving out from each side of the long point of a satin bodice. The bottom of the panier is finished with an up-turned reverse of embroidered tulle or gauze. Puffed fronts made of plain satin laid iu three or five large puffs held by two or three rows of shirring, over which the puffs droop. These fall from the panier drapery to the foot of the skirt. Others have bias gathered flounces, each two fingers deep, finished on the lower edge with a knife-pleating two inches wide. Negliges for boudoir and bed-cham-ber wear are imported iu all pale shades of color aud white and cream-colored surah silk. They are triipmed with lace-edged ruffles, shirrings, aud sometimes with bauds of swan’s down. They come in ’ two pieces—the skirt and uuliued sacque, or iu the form of derai-trained aud much-trimmed loose princess robe. The seams are beautifully felled and feather-stiched on the out-side. The hems aie done with a view of the washable possibilities of these elegant garments. The costumes imported for theiutermedate season are shorter thau those worn during the winter; not only the instep, but a glimpse of the ankle is disclosed inwalkiug. Experience has shown that short skirts, in order to be both comfortabe and graceful, must be decidely short. When they are m.ide long enough to Dareij’ escape the ground, they are apt to drag down and Anally touch the side-walk, aud the whole design of the short skirt is spoiled it the wearer must lift it—a thing which most ladies do awkwardly. Velveteen suits to be worn without wraps are exceedingly stylish.