FASHION SCRAPS.

Evening Star, Issue 4216, 31 August 1876, Page 4

FASHION SCRAPS.

Percales, cambrics, and all wash good dreßses are made up in composite costumes. Black garnet jewellery has been revived for second mourning and plain demi toilette. . Capote bonnets require strings, for which barbes of lace or gauze ribbons are used. English round are worn by young girls, and capote .bonnets by young married women, in Paris. Fine double and single ostrich plumes are more worn thissummer than they have been for years. Dark-prune, dark-blue, and dark-brown are favorite colors for calico, percale, and cambric dresses. Wash dresses, such as calico, percale, cambric, and lawn, are more fashionable this summer than last, Marguerites, with brown, black, or yellow centres, and of various sizes, are in demand for summer hat trimmings. A pretty novelty just introduced is wool and silk gauze in all shades for the crowns of bonnets, for Helms, cravats, and scarfs. : Oriental scarfs, with arabesque and geometric designs, following the Indian and Persian types, are among the new evening wraps.

The Dubarry coat—a coat resembling in shape a gentleman's swallow-tailed dress coat, but trimmed with pleatings, lace, or any other feminine garniture—is the ra<*e of the moment in Paris. °

1 The latest novelty m lace is the Esther necklace, a production in American lace. It is made of Honiton, applique, round point, or any lace preferred, with lace lockets and lace charms hanging from it. The lace strings of opera bonnets are sometimes trimmed with chains of delicate flowers, such as daises, forget-me-nots, and buttercups, sewed flat on them to form garlands that encircle the face and neck. The very long kid gloves; reaching almost to the elbow, worn with Centennial costume, have seven buttons, which form a row on the outer edge of the arm where the glove opens, ■ instead of beneath, as in the ordinary kid gloves. / English lisle thread gloves, well cut, and fitting exquisitely over the hands and wrist, are preferred to kid for travelling and ordinary summer wear. They have three, four, five, and six buttons, but those with three buttons really look besjfe. - The Gainsborough is""a handsome new hat m Panama chip. The crown is high, the brim droops on one side and rolls on the other. It is trimmed with a very long double ostrich I plume, which is passed around the crown and sweeps the shoulder. I

From 'Le Bon Ton ' for June we learn that ground skirts are no longer worn except in the morning or travelling; for visiting, for walking, or for the races, all dresses are trimmed ; a well-bred lady holds her skirts up in her hand out of doors."

Many of the old lost antique lace articles have been revived by a lace artist well known to the connoisseurs in lace. She says she can reproduce any lace whose stitch has been lost for the last 200 years, copying any pattern is shown to her.