Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1882 — FASHION NOTES. [ARTICLE]

FASHION NOTES.

Irish and ficelle laces are both in high favor,, Bids robes afo seen on all very dressy CflStttmes. 2 ’ ¥Bilk rftirfe are preferred to all others for underwear. Few underskirts are worn, and 1 those 1 aHWaefihmliud. the Stockings have become marvels of lace and operi work. Drawers are not gathered in at the knees for summer wear. The wildest combinations of color are the most popular. Underskirts short, and trimmed with heavy lace or embroidery. Flowers are extravagantly used for hat and bonnet trimmings. Large sagging puffs, form the panniers of many new model costumes. Watteau bbdiegs fold panniers are much worn by young girls abroad. Labe frills are wrinf around the neck and wrists as much as ever. Lace of various kinds is the preferred trimming for,silk underwear. Half-inch wide stripes of dolor on white grounds are a feature in inus-* lin ginghams and printed lawns. Pointed corsages,' puffed panniers, and bouffant toumures make them who wear them lookyery Elizabethan. Novelties in jewelry are pale pink pearls and turquoises mounted together, and set ip small fine diamonds. An eccentric fashion in -hosiery is the stocking of grfeen silk with a pdacock’s feather in tinted gold on the instep.

' Ladtes with sesthetic tastes are having dresses made of Madras muslin window curtains in Oriental designs rn A 1 (Jib* M Parasols are very large, and made to look larger by the lace and embroidered volantes with which they are bordered.

Straw and chip hats and bonnets of myrtle green, mahogany red, maroon, terracotta, and navy, sapphire, smalt, arid greyhound blue will be much worn. Large single flower patterns, in rich natural colors, fine as hand paintings, on grounds delicately tinted or pure, white, are the features pf new transparent muslins/* A large, loose, sagging puff is more fashionable for the bottom of dress skirts than plaited or shirred flopnees. One very narrow plaiting is used, however, to support the puff. Imitation pink pearls, carved out of pale pink coral, are so Iridescent when finely polished as to be indisti guishable from the real pearls, except under the close inspection of an expert. Flowers continue to form a large part of the decoration of ball dressesg add in color present a brilliant contrast to that of the dress instead of approximatining it as has been usual. Borne of the Wool Ftench’ garnitures are decidedly pronounced In contrast to the toilet, orlght scarlet being wojru with pink; lilac, with blue, ana bright yelloW over toilets of Burgundy red. 1 Worth’s black dresses are combinations of two or three fabrics, and have a color introduced. One special novelty is a black grenadine made over white moire, and trimmed with Spanish lace and moire ribbon. Bias bands of satin three Inches wide, or straight bands of stripes, or else smooth rows of lace or embroidery put on the skirt before it is plaited, are the most effective trimmings for plaited skirts of plain grenadine. English straw, in narrow raised shining plaits, either white, black or brown, is more fashionable this spring than (he flat Italian plaits; and the rough add ready, and porcupine straws do not seem likely to be as popular as last summer. r A new caprice in millinery shows narrow turned-over collars of lace or embroidery that are open on the side of the neck instead of in front. A neck-ribbon of plain tinted gros grain passes around the neck, and there is a small bow at the side. Parasols are very pretty; those intended for full dress are of white, black, or colored silk, satin or moire, trimmed with several rows of lace applique on the satin; the handles top and bottom are decorated with ribbons and flowers, and the knobs are works of art. One of the most superb parures lately mounted for a Parisian leader of fashion.an American of coure, is composed of a necklace, bracelet, diadem, earrings and Louis XVI. brooch of turquoises set in diamonds, with large pear shaped pink pearls for pendants. The polonaise, formed by panniers sewed on the edge of a Jersey basque, is found on many of the newest white lawn suits at the furnishing houses, with flounces .of embroidery on the lower skiftf two cblots of satin ribbon form the bows on these dresses, such as.porcelain blue laid over lemon yellow, or dark cardinal qver pale pihk. Dai My Arid elegant smeljing-bottlfecf with |iiy gefos and rbeauAifally carved upon the edges are now attached to the belt by a chatelaine of silver links. They are shaped like the Greek amorpbons, and give marked effect to a Grecian toilet; but owing to to their high price they are destined to be the exclusive ornaments of the highly flavored of fortune.