Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1883 — FASHIONS IN DRESS. [ARTICLE]

FASHIONS IN DRESS.

Hat,‘gloves and stockings should match Peaked brocades are becoming more and more numerous. Fans are covered with the dress material and- hand-painted. Bonnets and hats are as varied as the most capricious can wish. High sleeves and short shoulders are indispensible for a perfect lit. Bleached, colored and plain silk girdles will be largely worn on white dresses. Amono sash-ribbons, which are revived, are brocades representing peacock feathers. Bbxgmt-obeen parrots of dazzling hue are placed upon imported bonnets of crimsonplush. Shbphbbd-plaids will again be in favor in ribbons, and also in Loulslne and taffeta silks, for evening wear. All-wool fabrics are the rage in this season. Very little silk is used, even for the dressiest toilets. A. simple School dress consists of a plaited woolen skirt attached to a lining waist and an elastic Jersey bodice. The new shades of red for autumn wear are Indian and magenta, used only for Jackets or oontrast trimmings. , Madras muslin for evening wear are gorgeously decorated by having the pattern darned in silk and gold thread/