Fashion Notes.

The directoire bonnet with the scooped brim is fashionable at the watering places, and useful also, as its flaring front leaves the hair above the forehead untouched and in order. Long ostrich feathers lie flat on the outside of the brim, curling slightly over the edge of one point, and a large bow on the crown completes its trimming. The brim may be lined with velvet or sheered tulle, and ribbon strings attached to the back of the crown are tied under the left ear in a full bow.

English women are wearing yachting gowns made in the directoire style, with long coats reaching to the foot and not fastened except just below the collar: thence they fall open in careless fashion and show a blouse waist of white washing silk, widely belted, or else of white serge or flannel, with petticoat to match, which may be knitted if the wearer is stout, or fully gathered if she is slender. The long coat is of white serge and is trimmed down the front with a facing of navy blue or scarlet silk, or else it has revers trimmed with braid.

All-over-embroidered serges and veilings, with small colored figures on a white ground, are used for the seaside gowns of girls from ten to twelve years of age. The sailor blouse, with deep square collar and sailor necktie, and a full-round of kilted skirt, is the design. This is also the best way for making striped flannels, such as the Scoth flannels with bars and stripes like the Scotch ginghams. To hold out the skirts of little girls' dresses mothers make an under petticoat for them of sheer white cambrie, with three or flour flounces gathered full across the back, covering it from the belt to the embroidered flounce which edge the garment.