Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1882 — FASHION NOTES. [ARTICLE]

FASHION NOTES.

Woolen dresses, to be tasteful,’should I be made as plain as possible. I Manties next fall will be lined with I some bright color. gold, nd, Hue, or I pink. Gold will be first choice. Velvet will bo the principal material. Small checked silks are made up In I many fanciful styles and always in combination with other fabrics, plain merveilleux be lug the the usual I choice. Ok! gold Is still used with nearly every other color. Green is also very much tn vogue. It is combined with red satin, Just as red and blue have been for some time past. Many underwaists for summer use are in shawl shape in the neck, trimmed with fine maneouk of batiste draperies to form shirred ahd pleated flohus. This waists is very pretty with open dresses. Mull neckties are passe. Ribbons, from one to two inches wide are passed around tne neck inside the drees collar and outside the linen collar. Urey are tied in a very large bow: of two long loops and two longer ends. Batin Ison the wane as a dress fabric, and next season it will be , preceded by other goods, notably rep silk, which are sort and yielding, and yet appear |td be;heavy from the thick cords In them.

Feather ornaments will be worn next season again, it the fact that one I leading Paris milliner has contracted | for the skins of 80,000 pigeons for Jthe adornment .of hate and bonmte, counts. The birds are to be caught in all parts of Germany, and dealers in game in Berlin are filling the order. It is said that embroidery will be used In profusion on winter woolen dress goods. Polka" dote will be enlarged to great balls that resemble embroidery, though they are wrough t by machinery. Self colors will be used in dress goods in preference to figures. Heavy gros. grain silks and taflettas will be the choice over satin lustlrous silks.

All outside garmentethat are popular of late* years outline the form, by being cut to fitor gathered in to its shape. Attempts have been made to revive the long straight upon the back and straight down in front, but they have been comparative failures. Shape outline fa demanded, and the draped costume with a more or less modification will outlast this generation at least. It la an open question whether she was au esthete or a pretty Quakeress, at all events her dress was a model of quaint simplicity. Soft wool, in a quiet gray shade, with plain full skirt and shirred round waist and Quaker kerchief of embroidered whtle mull crossed over the bosom. Golden rings iof natural curly hair peeped from under a gray poke bonnet which matched I the drees. Bhe wore gray lace mitts and carried a hag of gray silk, and the tiny shoes which “peeped in and out beneath her petticoat” were gray also. It begins to be quite freely whispered that the reigning fashion orfen - (nine hair-dressing, next summer, will be to wear the locks simply cropped dose enough to the head to admit of short curb all over it This whim may be inspired by a revulsion from the years of subjection to combs, hair-pins and crimping pins. It may also bring about a decided relief from headaches in hot weather, or from uncomfortable hate so perched upon the superstructure of hair that they can only be held in place by skewers of braces or iron! But who will venture to say that the style will prove becoming? A very young girl, with soft and dimpled sure facee of cheek and chin, may acquire a certain baby wisomeness by this coiffure, but we tremble to think of the mature matrons thus guilelessly adorned I However, those who have lived through the Anglo manta' tof minute knots and clubs of hair worn low enough to reveal the defects of eVery conceivable head and profile during the past two years, can no doubt survive the newdepartum.