Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1882 — FASHION NOTES. [ARTICLE]

FASHION NOTES.

’ ' T P? T*7? - j O Thejiewest blue is the “Bapljded’The new French boots have narrow pointed t|p« t and cuffs match the new ginghams and cambrics. Satines are shown in endless variety as to color and design. Small buttons of Dresden china are among the new novelties. The new bright shade of olive is a favorite for summer woolen goods. Bonnets are still made with beaded crowns and a fall of beaded lace over the face. Roses are the most popular flower with milliners, and they are preferred unmounted. Skirts without draperies are trimmed from the foot to the edge of the basque with small flounces. Walking coats of black satin have high flaring collars closely covered with large jet beads. Bangled jet is the novelty for trimming black dresses. The long redingotes of the newest Paris dresses are a return to a style in vogue here last year. The present choice hosiery is for the plain black, either of lisle thread or silk, clocked in black or white. Small jewelled lace-pins, matching the color and design of the earrings, are now used to fasten bonnet strings. Fichus or Mother Hubbard capes made of lace and tied with moire rib; bons are worn with plain basque bodices. Sicilienne, Bengaline, Victoria, velours, and other repped silks are used for full dress toilets in preference to satin.

Shrimp pink cashmere with a chaudron (or copper) moire vest and sash makes a charming toilet for afternoon receptions. Charming toilets for the- watering places are made of Chinese crape, plain, brocaded, or embroidered like the needle work on Canton crape shawls. Sleeves of french dresses with stylish fullness at the armhole have but one long seam—that inside the arm, while the outer seam begins at the elbow. Embroidered fichus of black net densely covered with fine cut-jet bugles are something new and are considered very stylish. The “Boulevard” parasol for full dress comes in cream tinted moire with trimmings of Spanish lace and a cluster of lilies on the top. The favorite combinations in new French tea-gowns are terra-cotta,cop-f>er color, corn color, camel’s hair enivened with cardinal moire. Parasols for the seaside and country are of India pongee, mounted on a bamboo stick, lined with Turkey red silk and ornamented with red poppies. The Langtry turban with soft pouf crown and velvet brim worn far back on the head is becoming to very young ladies with small, refined feaiures. White lilacs or clematis are used to trim small black straw bonnets. Straight wreaths of roses without foliage are worn on wide brimmed garden hats. Fine colored hosiery should be washed in tepid water, with white castile soap, and rinsed in cold water. It should be dried in the shade, and should be turned wrong side out when being laundried. Black dresses are combinations of two or three fabrics. One special novelty is a black grenadine made over white watered sfik and trimmed with Spanish lace and watered ribbon. ■e .. Colored stones for jewelry are once more coming into vogue. The most popular are the amethyst, sapphire, emerald and ruby. These are set in deap gold, principally as lace pins, with ear-rings to match. One of the new caprices among imported dresses is the use of velvet on cotton dresses. For instance, the turned-over collar, cuffs, belt and bows on a dark blue percale dress are of velvet of the same color. “Corisande” basque is a stylish coat-shaped model, very suitable for the lighter qualities of woolen goods, the shirred ruffles on the lower part of the front, and the shirred collar removing the severity of the costume. Handsome Biarritz gloves of very fine undressed kid, to be worn with full dress, have wide satin bands at the tops delicately embroidered in tiny clusters of rosebuds, or painted with a monogram orcrest in gold or silver. A new cloak meant for summer use is composed of row upon row of lace covering cashmere cut In a dolman shape. The only trimming is a graduated series of rows of fringe set in the center of the back and down in front. Large handkerchiefs for the shoulders are of soft twilled silk, bordered with lace, and have the points embroidered in some simple flower pattern. They are to be worn over muslins and satins made with pointed waists and full pauier overdresses. A new caprice in millinery shows narrow turned-over collars of lace or embroidery that are open on the side of the neck insteadofln front. A neck ribbqn of pale tinted grosgrain passes around the n •>•!<, a id there is a small bow at the side.