Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-02-26

A word About the Fashions.

n WOr0 ABOUT tne FasnhOns.
"shirley Dare" the New York cor
respondent of the Chicago Tribune,
gives the following on the subject of
the fashions:
The shop windows now display the
first tempting invoices of spring CAM
brics and piques, grateful to the eye
as banks Of violets and mayflowers.
Delicate dotted grounds are strewn
with tiny sprays Of lily of the valley
dropping on its green leaf or a Mexi-
test. "Thunder and lightning" is
the expressive name given to the
cambrics which initiate the fashion
able silks In fine zig-zag patterns of
dun color and black. Fine stripes
are a favorite style, and excellent
collors in solid cambricks are shown,
deep pink, buff, and lighter blue than
the window-hlind shade worn for
wrappers last season. The styles for
these materials may be given here,
for most of these new patterns will
be sold and made up before March.
That adopted by one Of the best
French houses in this city, is to make
cambrics and jaconets up in simple
gored sack dresses, with a moderate
fiounce on the edge. This Is not
more than five inches wide, cut bias,
and the cord run below the heading.
Sometimes two hounces are placed
above this /; or Ave narrow ones from
the trimming of the skirt. A four
inch ruffie is placed four inches from
the edge of the skirt; like all the
ruffles 1t Is cut bias, and the cord run
through the center with two narrow
ruffies, made the ordinary fashion be-
low and one above 1t. White linen
buttons with figures printed on them
to match the dress, are prettiest for
cotton dresses; the sash is made of
four horizontal pleats of cambric,
with ruffled fan behind and ruffied
ends. The sleave Is an easy coat shape,
, with deep ruffied cuff and buttons on
the outside. A linen chemisette may
be worn with the morning dress; the
chemisette collar is of plain muslin
or linen, to wear under dresses, some
thing like the false fronts worn by
gentlemen for travelling, which COM
bine collar and q pointed piece to
show between the cravat and vest.
The matelot collar of white linen,
square and very becoming. The pin
for morning dress is of tortoise shell
or pink shell. Cashmere waists, with
velvet collar and cuffs, are fashiona-
BILE for morning. Jackets of opera
flannel, short and square, with fancy
cuffs and pockets embroidered in gold
, and crimson, with small mixture OF
some other color, are stylish, and
with one of these white pique dress
may be worn all winter for morning
toilet. Children wear white piquc all
the year round, it is to be seen on the
street, peeping below velvet over.
dresses, over thick CATERS.
The new opera capes are of cash.
: mere, in white or black, made bourn-
ous style, the Greek border worked in
! gold round the edge, and bullion
fringe. The richest bones are the
bournouses in alternate stripes of sat
in and velvet. The opera cloak oi
. scarlet cashmere, cut In points around
the edge, with the border of deep
black lace. White cashmere jackets
are trimmed with satin and anglia
fringe, but the bournous is more con-
venient. The ebasket-cloth, shot with
white floss, is very pretty for jackets
the diagonal all-wOol materials are
used for common basques.
The ball season closes tonight, but
the free habits of Western towns
give longer respite, and few styles
for evening dress will be useful
= White tulle and tarletan are the best
. dresses. The easiest snowy design i.
, a skirt of three very full layers o.
] tarletan, caught, in regular puffs, al
, over by butterfly bows of blue tarle
4 tan; a pleated flounce may be added
! headed by a ruche of blue.
7 A white tarletan has over-skirts o
pink looped by great fans and bows
of white silk and white roses.
! A black tulle has n fiuted flounce
pulled over-skirt with triple panier
. edged with black blonde lace, headet
by white satin trimmings.
The most effective dresses at th,
= late balls at the Academy of Music
: were either white tulle with man,
lengthwise pufls, abundantly trim
med by flowers, in massive wreaths
, or the block tulle and gauge dresses
;, trimmed with many gold pipings
rutfies and dots or bows. A blu
q gauze over satin, looped on shoulder
a and sides with clusters of large pinl
q roses, was much admired. A whit
n tulle with plain white silk underskir
!, was one of the most charming dress
- es-the upper skirt of many folds G
tulle plain, with floating cut edges
l. slightly raised by wreaths of ivy de
e pending from shoulders and waist
Is a tullc is charmingly made thus: de
e mo-train of white silk in shell scol
- lops on the edge, with four incl
IS flounce Of rich blonde finishing tn
j. tulle over dress, which is withou
n putls, but made in several thinuesse,
l. The blonde headed by five-inc
ruflle Of silk rose pink, azurline o
e and gathered through the Gel
e ter. the fiounce falls a few inch
T, es nom the edge of the silk skirt, an
q sweeps round TO meet similar trim
l. ming on the front width. The pu
r at the back il held 10y flounce of tn
le same style, heading in turn deept
: one of piuked white silk. This END
~ on the hips in n large blonde quite
Naisy trimming, with white silk cer
-, ter. A second tlounce trims the fror
- = and finishes with a Naisy just belo'
!, the panier. The bertha Is very low
=, square, and trimmed with sever,
~ frills of silk tulle and blonde. Thel
~ are no sleeves. The waist is plaii
~ ~ with daisy belt clasp. The coiffur
~ - IL large shell twist of hair for tn
m cl.ignun, short oullS falling within ii
~ front hair curled, busted with gol
powder, and large daisy placed
the left behind the front frizettes.
of White, pink and black are q Frenc
to and fashionable combination {,
ST evening dress. A white tarletan ov,
IN u slip of white silk, has a deep flute
tn fiounce of pink tarletan, with blaC
le satin band just below the heading