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Fashion Notes

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
July
Year
1882
Copyright
Public Domain
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Walteau scènes are painted on fans of batiste and of linen. Redingotes require the broadbriramed Directoire bats to be in keeping. Spotted foulard neckties of dark color, witli tlie dots in contrast, are vvorn with morning toileis. Parasols painted with Qeld flowers are the fashion. Gay-colored greuadines will be popular this summer. The fashionable color of damaak tablecloths is that of coffee. Old faahioned shawls are used lor portieres and table covers. Lace pins have the manograin worked in tiny diamonds and emeralds. Collar necklaces of artificial flowers are worn with square-cut dresses. Sleoveless vesto opening from the waist on a waistcoat are very fashionable. Dressy shoes of white or black satin have short loes and are clo3ely beaded. Gloves a yard long are imported to wear with dresses that have short sleeves. Cream, and faiut tints in blue and pink are much in favor for graduating costume?. Black, green or pinkish grapes are in great vogue for ornanienting evening dresses. The high flaring collars of the new walking coats of black velvet or satin are covered with jet boads. Fringes formed of very large pendent rosebuds are employed to edge the draperies on silk or satin dresses. Silk gloves are shown in all the new summer shade3. They are fastened by three buttons at the wrist and extend upwards in a deep gauntlet. Surah dresses of shrimp pink profusely trimmed with ivory white lace, or with silk Aurillac lace, are worn at rtfty and evening receptions. Crinoline grows in favor with English women, but meets with nosuccess with Parisian3. American ladies content themselves with very small tournures. -Eathetic gowcs of white muslin witli surplice waist and puffed sleeves are worn by girla in their teens at school coinmeucements. India pongee lap robe3 are cool and cleanly for using in open carriages during the summer. They are bordered with dark-colored silk, quilted in rows. The elegant black brocaded silk made for Mrs. Garfleld by the American SilkCulture Association i3 on exhtbition in a Broadway window. "Crushed-strawberry" red and raspioerry pink are the fashionable colors for the ginghani dresses worn by brunettes. They are trimmed with white etnbroidered muslin. The jetted Jersey waista of black silk are very stylish for coinpleting black satin misrvelleux dresses that have many lengthwise tucks and pleated flounces. Outline embroidery on crash, pongee or linen willremain thefavorite needlework for idlers in the country during midsummer weather. Hat pins csmo in a variety of styles, includingbead-headedpins, gold, sil ver, pansy, daisy-headed pins and those with cup-like tops on a quivering stem. The latest caprice is to tiuspeud a Deautifully-painted miniature tamborino by ribbons from the neck. A satin jag upon the under side contains the iiandkerchief. One of the great features of eveningdresses for tke summer season is the embroideries. The entire front breadths are embroidered in floss silk of all sha des and sil ver and many colored aeads. Black silk stockings reserved for norning wear, are dotted with red or 3lue butterflies, with yellow antennae. For evening, white lace stockings are embroidered with gold and silver stars, or tiny silken flurettes. A new style of panier becoming to ,all, slender figures is the " Madrilene." It is doublé. The under-panier is of surah or cashmere, while the over panier is oL Spanish lace, either scarf or shawl, draped and drawn back with ;he one underneath. Beaded embroideries oí many colors, representing jewels, especially pearls of many shades, and turquoises, are used for trimming crape dresses, as they carry out the Oriental coloring. Terra-cotta dresses of cashmere or of camel's-hair are made entirelyof one material, and if simply fashioned without braiding are very stylish. The basque of terracotta is also popular with black satin skirts.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat