Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-09
LATEST FASHIONS.
SILK 0resses---Elegant TOlIsts---cOIOrs and
Styles--Hats and B0nnets---Flowers,
Feathers etc.-.-0ld SiyIe,B OuRets---Gan-
tlsmen's Fash.0ls.

The newest fashion for a handsome silk
dress just now is the robe Josephine. We
saw this week a tasteful specimen of this
style IN a fashionable rousseau. 1t was a
dress of burnt bread cOlored satin, with a
short skirt, over which there was a long
rain, which can be put on and of at
pleasure; this long train was of velvet Of
he same color as the satin. The short
skirt Is trimmed with Fittings. The low
bodice has ~basques, which hide the fast
enings on the train to the skirt. a pretty
lace hchu, opening into point, completes
the bodice. The sleeves are in the Marie
Antoinette style, with cHgdgedateS Of
white lace. The long train can be taken
up over the arm, as was the fashion liz he
reign of Napoleon l..
ELEGANT TOILETS.
There is a very elegant toilet with two
skirts, the underskirt being of mauve
gros grain silk, Just touching the ground,
and having no trimming. The second
skirt Is Of violet velvet, and forms at the
back a long train, which may be lOopeu
up and fastened at the sides under velvet
rosettes,o Of else left to trail on the ground.
h velvet waistband is completed at the
back by a fan-shaped bow, which forms a
sort Of small basque. The high silk bod
ice is finished of with a double standing
up silk hUting, and a similar trimming is
put on round the wrists of the tight
sleeves.
And, again, a toilet composed Of a CO.
cOanut colOred silk, velvet and satin. The
skirt is made Of silk, with a deep hounce,
which goes up on each side. The hOunce
is headed with a band of velvet, edged
with a huting satin. A small paletot of
cocoanut cOlOred satin is slit open at the
back, SO as to show the enormous bow of
the sash, which is Of velvet, edged with a
satin nuting. The sleeves are wide, and
have deep velvet cuffs.
OOLoRs AND STYLES.
Myrtle green is also a very favorite col
or this winter. Dresses are frequently
made with two deep Fittings of the same
material round the skirt-the upper one
headed with a wide band of velvet. Fsur
lappets, very wide but not all alike, are
placed at the back; the under ones are
pleated like the fittings, while the upper
ones are gathered and edged with pssse-
menteris.
There is a very short paletot with
basques slit open to show the lappets.
The sleeves are trimmed with a futing
round the wrists, and there is also a SINH
lar iuting round the neck. Each iuting
is beaded with a narrow passementerie
border.
HATS AND BONNETs.
Hats and bOnnets must come first in or
der. The spring hats are TO have a high, !
crown, and the most noticeable
teature is that all the trimming is perched
upon the top of the hat, falling down in
sprays and fesuOOns at the back, leaving |
front almost bare, but for a scanty
trimming OF lace and satin folds about the
brim. This gives the hat something
IF the appearance of the Old-fashiOned
gypsy Bonnet Of some p years ago.
FLOwEEs, FEATHERS, ETC.
The flowers that are to be most worn on
spring hats and bonnets are clusters Of
he elder flower, apple blossoms, sprays
If the sweet white locust blooms, and
'ther early spring flowers. Feathers
will hardly be seen, but white ostrich
Ups are allowed a brief respite. Being
White, they are fresh and somewhat
pringlike. Black lace and tulle, both
or bOnnets and round hats, viii be as
as ever. There is a novelty in
tulle, in which the net is fine and
lose. and thickly beaded v with little
1t G lots not larger than a small pin-head.
also comes in colOrs, but then the dots
re in eOlors also, and not in jet.
OLD STYLE BoNNETs.
An inclination to resuscitate old styles
hOwn in an ~Odd-lOOking little bonnet
which is nothing more nor less than the
Ottage bonnet Of the schoolgirl days Of
Iur mothers, only il has no curtain to it,
its close to the face, and is without a vest
of trimming inside, except a plain
dge Of black lace. But how is it to be
with the present enormous POg6s
nd plsits with which ladies are 50 fond of
their heads nowadays? That is
question TO be resolved some weeks
And mankind at large will be
uriOus TO see the solution of the
This bonnet is called the
'uritan; and, of the same genre, is
mother called the Quaker, a soft grey
ilk, g~ros-grain, L believe, the brim fitting
to the face, the silk drawn plainly
yer the frame; and all the clusters of
elbow locust flowers which adoTn it are
so as to fail over the back of the
rown. The sight of this bonnet gives
visions of a ~pretty-shalI we say an
impossible Quaker girl-with apple-blos- 5
ON cheeks and soft brown eyes, and
Inning hair of the same shade folded,
iadOnna fashion, over a modest forehead. q
Sut POmpadOur bodices and Marie Antoi-
.ette trains will never fall into Ine''
With Quaker bOnnets. The reform in {
ress viii have to be somewhat more ex-
ensiye to make up a harmonious tout en-
Gamble.