Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1869-03-31
New York Spring Fashions.
METROPOLITAN FURNISHING Rooms,
495 BROADWAY,

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and silks are the only materials at all sea-
| sonable out of doors, though for indoors,
| where furnaces diffuse uniform summer
| like heat, the new cambrics and percales
! and organdies are worn. The style for ma
king every day house dresses and plain
street dresses is the same, being merely a
skirt and over tunic, the over-tunic being
confined by band or sash nc the waist II
by sash it must be fastened at the. side
The long ends depending from the back of
the belt are entirely out of style. They
were overdone during the winter. If long
ends are cut in with the waists of basques,
and, therefore, not easily changed to the
sides, they may be looped up behind after
the style of the panier puff This makes,
however, more pretentious style of gar
ment, and had better not be affected i'm
other than rich or elegant material. PA
nier or no panier" is no longer question.
The panier is now realiy-a fixed fact-such
is the news from the headquarters of fash
ion abroad and the dressiest ladies' here are
delighted. The more soberly inclined es-
chew the panier, but rs fullness at the back
is indispensable now, they affect the Wat
teau fall instead Of the panier. This fall is
at once very simple and very liStingae. 1t
consists of width or two of the material Of
the dress, pleated in French pleats and fas-
tened on the back, between the shoulders
1t may be placed little higher or little
lower-be contracted or spread at the
taste-or rather according to the style of
the wearer. The panier best becomes
slight people. The Vatican fall, while ad-
nlirable and piquant on petite figures, may
be worn with great advantage by the most
dowager-like of ladies' In Paris the panier
supersedes the basquine no lady there
thinks of making formal call in any
thing more antiquated than panier of
piece with her suite. The velvet or fur
cloak that she wears from her carriage to
the house is left with the servant in wait
ing in the ante-room. The only difference
between a house dress and street dress in
the Spring styles is that the latter has a
cape in other respects they are the same
This cape resembles the fichu worn last |
summer, but without the long ends, and |
also without the crossed fronts Some of |
these capes are ruffied all around, the ruff
tie deepening at the shoulder and resem- |
bling in effect q flowing sleeve. Putting is
increasing in popularity as trimming for
all kinds of goods-even the most easily |
soiled of materials are profusely rufled, |
and besides being ruffied have headings Of |
embroidery. Pufiings, too, though very
difficult to iron, are much used on gar
ments necessarily frequently in the wash +;
they are usually alternated with bands of
tucks cut on the bias. The increasing
elaborateness and finish of every detail of a |
lady's wardrobe is due to the sewing ma
chine. To it also is ascribabie the rapid |
changes of style that men look upon as one
of the most ominous signs of the times.
Woman has not changed, only invention |
has increased her facilities for acting out
her nature. A lady with Grover & Baker
dash off bewildering mass of tucks and
puts and ruffles and embroidery. The un-
initiated seeing it bewal her extravaganza,
when they ought to commend her taste and |
spirit. The material perhaps has cost her
but little, but she by her skill has made it
appear costly-it shines by reflected light
that of handiwork. In many cases the n a.
terial is rich and expensive, but II ,ater;al
cannot be made so rich that Fse',;ons docs
not further enrich by her fantasies Tins
we find blue butterSi-s embroidered on the
heaviest of Jiar,6 gros-erain we find satin
eln norJlder<ed with wheat ears and field pop
ples' Ind that not sparingly, but with the
Jrlvishness, the recklessness characteristic
of steam power and machinery. Ladies
who wish to combine economy with fresh
ness and elegance of toilette provide
themselves with couple of white muslin
dresses and black silk or two as indispen-
sable basic articles. If these are well-ad-
vised in the making a very little more is
sufficient for the sustained changefulness
of costume which Society" demands of its
members. This ''little more" is merely
few changes of bright-hued skirts to be
worn under the white dress, with flowers or
ribbons to match. Thus n skirt of pink
lining silk should be supported by roses o.
the corsage or in the hair, or by pix rib
bons, on occasions where fowcc,rs might be
deemed too gay. PaniA--s or over-tunics Of
pink and white st-. ped gauze look extreme
ly elegant win white dress and pink skirt,
put cannot be worn often without being
recoRr oRrlized-which is considered fatal-a
tnrng to be fashionable must be fresh.
Taste is wonderful modifier of the inher-
ent qualities of things. We know some la
dies who have but small means and few
changes, who 60 into society and receive
company great deal, yet who always ap-
pear to be fresh from the hands of q first
class modiste +; but no modiste, or even
maid, ever gave even q sugguestion, much
less finishing touch, to the admirable toll
| attaa Of thaaa ladies Tbav 1aSiov,, orJ nv