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Show FASHION SPRAYS. Shoulder capes of netted braid, in ceil blue, rose and old-gold are to be worn in fanciful toilets at summer resorts. "Scrim" is the name of coarse linen batiste used in combination with antique and Medici lace for summer dresses. Robespierre cravats are of silk mull, embroidered in small rose-buds, and trimmed with an embroidered band set on a ruffle. The porte bonheur ring for the little finger is of silver, representing delicate twine, with two small oval drops suspended from it. Stylish large hats are in navy-blue rough-and-ready straw, lined with blue velvet and trimmed with blue velvet and feathers. Fancy Tuscan straw bonnets are lined with shirred satin and trimmed with a large Alsace bow of wide satin ribbon, without strings. White petticoats are trimmed with plaited flounces, which are not starched; even those on trains for evening dresses are left unstiffened. Fancy aprons of sheer lawn, India mull, Swiss, plain and dotted, are worn over elegant dark dresses at home in the afternoons and evenings. A new and convenient bracelet is a heavy silver chain, to which is attached a shopping pencil, deftly hidden in a miniature champagne bottle. The custom of sending flowers to persons about to sail for Europe has been carried to such excess in New York that it has become ridiculous. Shirred mull garden and shade hats are trimmed with garlands of delicate flowers and small fruits, or with the lightest marabout and ostrich feathers. A revival of the spun straw lace of a quarter of a century ago, as light as Valenciennes lace, is shown in dainty little bonnets of the cottage and the cap shape. Black skirts are much worn with jacket waists, as well as a great variety of silk and woolen draped skirts in fancy designs. Satin is also used for this purpose. Open-work black jet passementerie is used as a perpendicular inserting in the sleeves of black grenadine and silk dresses. The material is always cut out underneath. Bangle bracelets in jet copy the antique shapes, serpents and slim bands ending in grotesque heads or ball-shape. Others have a dainty padlock swinging from the arm. One of the New York dressmakers recently charged $250 for a dress of dark blue Lyons satin with no trimmings but cord and tassels. She evidently copies Worth in price, if not in style. The pair of bellows, which the believer in home decoration hangs by the chimney, is invaluable for bringing the feathery little hemispheres of raveled silk worn on hats into a proper high state of fluffiness. The small sunshades are coming into favor again. Some of them are no longer that one's arm, and can easily be fastened to the belt when not in use. The most elegant mountings and coverings are employed for this purpose. |