Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1882 — FASHION NOTES. [ARTICLE]

FASHION NOTES.

The favorite blue for children’s flannels and cheviots is the old gendarme or china-blue. For balls the dress should be of some thin tissue, silk muslin or mull or batiste over a silk foundation of the same color. Very long mitts in all shades of color will be much worn as the season ad/ances. The silk and lisle thread gloves of this season have very long The terracotta glove is a success no^i t , h - Bfcaadia * startling color and it is now sold by houses that condemned it when it was first introducOCX* a * The wearing of a jaoket bodice of cashmere, novelty silk or velvet with any kind of a skirt is an excellent plan for utilizing the skirts of dresses, the corsages of which have been worn out. The open embroideries for trimming dresses simulate the various heavy laces and cut works of the Irish, RusMon, early Venetain and Flemish points and the Florentine and Madeira work. The tendency to inorease the width of the skirt ana to loop the draperies high is marked this season. Shirrings, plaits and tuoks in vertioal, not horizontal, lines are seen on all or nearly all new costumes. Spanish laoe designs are brought out in a new gauzy fabric, all wool, black, white, and colored. This will be used for parts of dressy costumes trimmed with Spanish lace and made upon a silk foundation. One of the prettiest large hats of the season is the Tromblon. It has a medium-sized crown and a brim that ls.very wide in front and on one side, turned up a little on the other side and hollowed out in the back. The new manila and ficelle shades of ecru combine effectively with all the quaint and stylish shades of old blue, Pompeian red, terra ootta, golden brown, olive and hunter’s green. The bristling ruche that is used on the bottom of dress skirts consumes r great deal of material, eight yards of silk being sometimes cut up In its waved pleatings; the effect, however, is very good. New Paris veils called voiletteo heve long ends that float like sails. They are scarfspf gauze long enough to wind around the head and neck, and protect the complexion well in breezy weather. The severe and simple tailor-made cloth is the most popular walking costume for spring weather. The novelty for these istne use of plaques of braid instead of the trefoil curves for the frogs worn on the jacket.

Dresses of one fabric are always safe but there are no more refined toilets than the new French combination of cashmere with Louisine silk, and white muslin embroideied garniture, incongruous as these materials appear to be. Hair-dressing has come to be a simple matter now that all false hair is dispensed with. Simple.styles prevail for the back hair, such as small knobs and coils, while the front hair covers the forehead with rings and short curls, and gives the low, broad Greek brow. The prospective decadence of ijatin has brought new repped silks into the market. Among these is Bengaline soft and pliable,.yet with large cords, also the new English silks that are called Victorias, and are made with heavy repps, yet are as yielding as the thinnest taffeta. The newest caprice in French lingerie is to combine laces of two tints in one article of neckwear; for instance, flat collarettes and vests of the flax-gray twine lace have ruched and pleating ot ivory white Languedoc lace with them, and the same arrangement is seen in fichus and doubled trills. Paris millinery presents many new caprices this season, such as a saucy sailor hat called the Boston, a handkerchief bonnet larger than the Fanchon, soft crowned turbans of new shapes, and finally the climax is reached in a revival of the caleche bonnet with shired rattan top, that this generation has only seen worn upon the stage. Wash dresses of linen lawn, chamqery and Scotch ginghams, preparing for summer mornings in the country, are made as simply as even the laundress could desire, with a round basque, apron overskirt, and gathered flounces, but they are gived an elaborate effect by their garniture of embroidered muslin for collar, vest, luffs, and edging on the flounces. “Fair girl graduates” on Commencement day will wear cream-white dresses or embroidered nun’s veiling, or of mull mnslin with lace garniture. The short skirt is trimmed elaborately in front, with soft panier drapery for the back, and the waist has a surplice neck with elbow sleeves. Corsage bouquet of roses, no jewelry a white moire sash, aud white or black slippers, as the wearer chooses. The variety of grenadines is so great at present that these dresses will be more used than they have been; for young ladles the Spanish lace grenadine Is made over colored satin-no-tably terracotta red, olive green, and salmon colors; for older ladies the fine taffeta grenadine of sewing silk is used as a transparent above rich colow, while for those who prefer all black dresses two kinds of grenadine are used,'combining the plain or striped armure grenadine, with brocades that have large balls, flowers or fruits, apples, pears, or plumes brocades on relief upon a satin lustrous ground.