Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1882 — FOR THE LADIES. [ARTICLE]

FOR THE LADIES.

The coarser the ficelle lace the bet* ter it is liked. Any neat utility costume will do for a traveling suit. fthfre is a rags in New Yorkjfor smMl jet beaded Fanctyon bonnets! £ Voiret is to constitute one of the most fashionable of Hammer Mm* mings. * Street costumes and walking suits should never be made with pannier draperies.,, —& Worth says that only one woman in five pays her dressmaker’s bills without being dunned. Next to dark green and royal blue, the favorite color for street wear is the new shade of golden brown. For evening wear, extra long, buttonless gloves, in Saxe or Swedish kid, are more* popular than asy others. A lace pin with the wearers monogram in tiny diamonds and emeralds is among the elegant novelties in Jewelry. A toilet that recently attracted much attention in Paris had yellow birds clustered on the shoulders and in the hair. Ladies with aesthetic tastes are having dresses made of Madras muslin window curtains in oriental designs and colors. Bidiculously high prices are now paid for old gold or silyer chatelaines, trinkets and jewels of any kind showing a genuine stamp of antiquity. Black velvet dog collars, fastened under the chin with tiny gold or silver clasps set with mock gems, are worn with both day and evening costumes. Feathers and flowers are used in profusion by French modistes, and painted ribbon and painted lace add greatly to the elegance of dress bonnets and hats. Sleeveless vests, opening from the waist on a waistcoat, are very fashionable, but they always require either a large collar in etamine and embroidery or a full lace jabot. “Women are so contrary,” said Blobbs; “I thought when I got married my wife would darn my socks and let me alone; instead of that she lets my socks alone and darns me."— [Wheeling Journal. Fencing is being introdnoed among indoor amusements for jroung women. It is said to give more grace of movement and pose than any exercise, not even excepting dancing. A pair of good foils can be 1 ought for $2. An English lady who sued for damages because of a fall when boarding a steamboat has just lost her case. The jury decided that her high-heeled boots had wantonly and wilfully contributed to cause the irjury of which she complained. The prettiest shoulder capes this season are cut quite plain across; the back, fitting the shoulders -perfectly, but in front they are laid in loose easy folds across the chest, fastened together about the sixth button from the throat with a bow and by long ends of watered silk ribbon.

To fix bonnet strings, many elegant pins are devised; notably, two arrows lied with a ribbon, a small umbrella in pearls with diamond handle, running hounds, owls’ heads, and sets of five sparrows strung on a silver thread. Besides these there are eggs represented by pearls in a nest. Some attention was paid to cosmetics in the fourteenth century. Here’s a genuine recipe of that date: "For to make a woman’s neke white and softe: tak fresh swynes grees molten, and hennes grees and the whites of egges half rested, and do thereto a little popyl mele, enoynt hir therewith ofte.” New tea gowns have straight redinf;otes, with short skirts deeply folded n plaits in front and box-plaited behind.. White camel’s hair is a favorite fabric for these gowns, with coliar, cufis and sash, also bows of bronze green, copper-red, or sapphire-blue velvet. Embroidery in the material is also used for the trimming. A triumph of aesthetic art in dress is shown in a robe of royal blue velvet, short in tbe waist, with open square at the neck, filled in with a chemisette of tulle. Over the plain flowing velvet train is draped a tunlo of old Mechlin lace, oaught up, here and there, with golden- hearted marguerites and sprays of hawthorn. The last fashion in menus is a horn shaped bag in paper, on which Lb written the name; from the inside peep out three rosebuds. As an invitation to dinner, little cards are sent with a tiny gilt table engraved upon them; should the invite be for tea, a teapot stands on the table; underneath merely appears the date,and signature. Colored riding habits are revived for hunting by English women. Green-faced with white and,brightened with silver braid and buttons, or bright red cloth with black velvet facings and gold buttons, are the favorite colors for habits, while the hat of felt is cocked or turned up in three corners and trimmed with feathers and a rosette. Black silk stockings, reserved for morning wear are dotted with red or blue butterflies, with yellow antennae. For evening white lace stockings are embroidered with gold and silver stars of tiny silken florettes. Dressy shoes have remarkably short toes, closely beaded; they are made in white or black or black satin, or in the material of the dress itself.