The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-15
SPRING FASHIONS.
The Styles of Dresses and Bonnets

The styles of Dresses and BonneIs.
The gored dress, 50 long in fashion,
will be the prevailing style for the
coming season. 1t is made plain at
the top, or with plaits at the back, ac-
cording to taste. For the house the
skirt is very wide at the bottom, with a
long train For receptions this skirt is
very suitable.
In the street dresses there is a d deci-
ded and apparently popular change.
The short dresses, with petticoat to
match, are a great improvement upon
the looped-up dresses, with trains
which would sometimes escape from
the best of loopers TO sweep the streets.
These short dresses require a secque or
jacket to be worn with them, and are
generally made &c suite. ShawIs can
not be worn with them; they have too
heavy look, and are not graceful with
the new short dress.
The interesting event of last week, in
New York, was the opening of dress
patterns by the fashionable houses.
Besides these there were samples OF
mantillas, sacqueS, &c, and for chill
dreu's clothing great variety of STYLES.
The coat sleeve is still to some extent a
favortte, but gradually the flowing
sleeve is gaining popularity, and no
uOubk " III nave DGIDEG
the sumner IS over. Some of the de-
signs for these sleeves ere very pretty
and novel. Oneis a half flowing sleeve
over a coat sleeve, or a coat sleeve open
on the outside and laced, with the loose
flowing sleeve falling gracefully over
the elbow.
There are several different STYLES OF
the peplum basque, each having some
thing in its favor. A short, loose
sacqUe. a trifie shorter at the sides than
the back and front, and beautifully
trimmed. is very attractive.
The short dresses for the street are
made plain at the top, or with plaits at
the back, both of which are fashionable.
The skirt Is usually cut with points
around the bottom, and is worn over a
plated petticoat OF the same material
but the petticoat Is now often made
plain, and when trimmed with gradua-
ted bands OF velvet Is very pretty, and
many prefer it to the plated. Every
thing in the way of dress is deliberately
trimmed.
The styles in children's dress are
various, as usual. Lithographic prints
OF pretty faces, in h frame work OF
golden curls, are attached to figures to
represent children from two 10 three
years up to ten years. The figures are
dressed IN the latest mode, even to the
dainty garter.
yet been brought out, except at the
opening of the importers, when the
milliners gathered up all the novelties
and ordered them home Immediately.
where they viii be hidden until the
general opening day. Some change
has taken place in shapes, but it is not
so great as many predicted in early
winter. When the small bonnets OF
the past year made their appearances,
the universal belief was that they
would not be worn more than season.
But they have survived the winter, and
the ladies declare they are almost as
much in love with them as ever, espe-
cially when they remember the t'coal-
scuttle" or "sky -scrapsr," or the Qua
ker-Iike bonnets that hides the "littIs
face divine" The fact that large bon
nets would conceal much beautiful
hair, natural or artificial, that now
adorns the heads OF the ladies, will ef-
fectuAIly keep them at their distance.