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Show FASHION NOTES. <br><br> Oxblood is a new rich shade of red. <br><br> Sliding rings on parasols are revived. <br><br> Colored buntings will again be worn. <br><br> The Jersey costume has a kilt-pleated skirt. <br><br> Seed pearl embroideries are very fashionable. <br><br> Mitts will be more worn this summer than ever. <br><br> Hats, as a rule, are large and turned up at one side. <br><br> Shirred trimmings are more fashionable than ever. <br><br> Capote bonnets with protruding brims are favorites. <br><br> Unlooped box-pleated black draperies are much worn. <br><br> A pair of handsome black Chantilly lace mitts costs $25. <br><br> Ostrich feather fans will be the high novelty of the summer. <br><br> The Jersey costumes improved by Worth are laced in the back. <br><br> Figured foulard rivals red satin as an enlivener of sober-colored costumes. <br><br> Mock pearls are very fashionable, but they must be of very small size to look real. <br><br> Old fashioned figured challies, with satin-striped pale or white grounds, are revived. <br><br> Very small ruffles on the bottom of plain round shirts give the required dressy effect. <br><br> The small, soft coil of hair worn low on the head is becoming only to very young ladies. <br><br> A great deal of jet and colored ??? embroideries appear on fall dress summer toilets. <br><br> Maltese lace mitts, fine as cobwebs, are imported from Malts for indoor wear for ladies. <br><br> Cream-white cloth jackets, ornamented with carved white ivory buttons, are much worn. <br><br> White and cream-colored cordurette is the material for children's seaside jackets and wraps. <br><br> Fashion at the moment decides upon light tints for garments, both for outdoor and indoor wear. <br><br> Wood colors appear in all kinds of gloves - kid, lisle thread and silk - and also in net and lace mitts. <br><br> White chudda (?) cloths, white nun's cloth, white challie and white berege (?) will be much worn in midsummer. <br><br> Brocades in Oriental colors and designs, shot with gold thread, are aces (?) on many spring suits and garments. <br><br> English surtouts are made dressy, with linings or lacings of red, blue, old gold, heliotrope and black satin. <br><br> Polka dots and diamond-shaped dots in silk embroidery appear on the instep of much of the new silk hosiery. <br><br> The stately coiffure for ladies no longer in their teens is composed of waved bandeaux in front and large Roman braids in the back. <br><br> The most striking summer evening dresses are of cream-colored blonde or India mall muslin, profuesly [profusely] trimmed with Languedoc lace. |