Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1882 — FASHION NOTES. [ARTICLE]

FASHION NOTES.

Tan colored gloves are very fashionable. Red satin parasols are very fashionable. Polka dots grow larger as the season advances. Spanish lace holds its own with the rival ficelle. The sunflower mania has been adopted in Paris. White will be much worn for sum-mer-house dresses. Shot and changeable silks are once more in high favdr. All kinds of carpets copy Oriental designs and colors. Daisies are the favorite corsage bouquet of the moment. Grenadines in Spauish lace designs are novel and elegant. Neck ribbons are more frequently tied on one side than in front. Turn-over collars, with fanoy neck ribbons, are very fashionable. Little children will wear white for dressy occasions this summer. Chip hats, particularly black ones, will be much worn as the season advances. Baptiste and nun’s veilings take the {>lace of the white and tinted mulls of ast summer. Striped hosiery retains its popularity in spite of the efforts to render it unfashionable Quaintly shaped carved teakwood handles are seen upon some of the most expensive parasols. Shirred yoke dresses, with full skirts and no waist-band or shirring, are much worn by little girls. White pique bonnets and hats for little children are sold in large numbers to country merchants.

Kate Greenaway and Mother Hubbard aprons are all the rage for small children, both boys and girls. ’Hie newest white pique bonnet for little girls has a high Normandy crown buttoned on to a deep poke brim. Irish point collars and cuffs are sold in sets for children’s wear. They make the pla nest kind of a gingham frock dressy. A pretty elegance of the season are the rich colored street jackets, not matched to the toilek made of merveilleux or moire, The polonaise, or basque, with panier or extension and back draperies to simulate a polonaise appears on many new costumes. Stylish gloves come over the tight sleeves, fastening by three buttons at the wrist, and thence extending upwards in a deep gauntlet. Dressy shoes have remarkably short toes, closely beaded; they are made in white or black satin, or in the material of the dress itself. Gentlemen’s neglige suits for the house in midsummer are made es gray mohair with a sack coat, and with wide trowsers that have a cord and tassel around the waist. Fieclle, or twine lace, so plentifully used this spring, resembles macrame lace, the principal difference being that the ficelle is very muoh more delicate and finer in fibre. A Tuscan straw gypsy’s hat, faced with dark g;een velvet, and trimmed ofttside with a wreath of hazel-nuts and foliage, is sent to us from Virot’s among a number of other stylisn models.

An old-fashioned style is revived in the mode of finishing off the pointed bodice. A thick eord is set at the very edge of the corsage, and the tunic and paniersare set just underneath the eora. / Black silk stockings, reserved for morniDg vear, are dotted with red or blue butterflies, with yellow atennre. For evening, white lace stockings are embroidered with gold and silver stars, or tiny silken fiorettes. Small jeweled lace pins, matching the color and design or the earrings, are now used to fasten bonnet strings. The prettiest of these are in the form of crescents, arrows or butterflies, made of pearls and tiny diamonds. Hammered copper-heads in the shape of flat knobs or round balls, are on the newest canes of malacca, bamboo or other light wood. Crutch tops and knobs of hammered silver are also popular heads lor walking-sticks. Archery hats of dark green straws in the Queen Elizabeth shape to match dark green archery suits, are revived for archery wear this season, and are trimmed with only one stiff feather and bands of gold braid or gold cord. Rugs and lap robes for driving and for traveling are of soft, fine and thick Scotch cloths, with stripes or checks of mustard color and English green shades, or sage green with red lines, or else regular plaids or clan tartans. Graduation and confirmation dresses for young girls are made of white organdiea nd white dotted and sprigged Swiss muslins and are much trimmed with puffs, plaitings, and Valenciennes. Mirecourt ana Moresque laces. , The most startling parasols exhibied thus far are those of vermiltion satin, lined with old gold silk and trimmed with double ruffles of wide cream colored Spanish lace. The ferrules are surrounded by a wreath of brilliant scarlet roses, mixed with small yellow sunflowers.