Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1887 — THE SUMMER STYLES. [ARTICLE]

THE SUMMER STYLES.

New York Comtnercia Advertiser. , .. [ The ruby is just now the most fashionable precious stone. Tiny vinaigrettes are favorite attachments to prote bonheur bracelets. -• Poplinette is favorite material in England, especially in string color. The narrow frivoli’e ribbon is much used in Paris for trimming dresses and bonnets. / Gold and silver belt buckles, with a glove buttoner attachment, are pretty and convenient. Aipber has become fashionable, and some of the amber jewelry now made is really very handsome. The pale green formerly known as eau de Nil, is in favor again under a new name, “Baltique.” White satin Tam O’Shanters, with rackets embroidered op them, are the proper headgear for tennis. The old-fashioned “Swiss belt” in beads and velvet is becoming a favorite form of garniture again. Niagara blue is a new color. It is a sort of compromise between “peacock” blue and “serpent” green. A pretty boating costume is made of gray serge trimmed with alternate black cord and oxidized silver braid.

“Wash” dresses this year are very pretty, but altogether too elaborate to be submitted to the laundress with safety. A curious freak of fashion is the revival of the old fashion of wearing miniature portraits in lockets, brooches and bracelets. We read of a Graeco-Japanese costume as being in favor in England. The imagination shrinks from the task of trying to picture such a combination. Hand-painted complexions do not seem to find favor at the wateringplaces this summer. The weather is too warm for this sirt of art to be permanent. Four folds of black and white silk muslin make a pretty substitute for ruching to be worn in the neck of a mourning frock. The white is set next to the skin. Silver flat-irons are novel favors for the German. They excite much curiosty among their fair recipients, who always wonder what they are intended to represent. Changeable silk parasols are very pretty, when the sun shines upon them they cast blue and yellow reflections on the bearer’s faqe, to the detriment of her good looks. For fishing and yachting no gown is found so serviceable as dark blue flannel, trimmed in any way that best suits the wearer’s taste. Dark re I velvet belt, cuffs and rolling collar are often seen. A hat that is like a breath of country air is formed of battledore braiding, lined with red and trimmed with daisies, cowslips, dandelions and clover leaves and blossoms in white, pink and purple.