The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-03-10
From LIE Beau Monde.
Street and Evening Costumes.

! The new styles both for evening and street
wear are more deliberately trimmed, and are
more tasteful than the styles early in the
season.
The trained dress is entirely out of place
! in the daytime, for outdoor wear, except
for the carriage when making ceremonious
calls.
The short dress, with tunic tastefully
| trimmed. having sashes and loops, is the
fashionable day costume, which is laid aside
| in the evening for the trained skirt.
A change in the form of the sash has been
predicted-that it will merge into a fancy
| Jacket frill, or postillion basque, having the
| ends graduated one above another.
A style which prevailed near the close of
| the last century is to be in vogue for even
| ing dress during the early spring. This is
| the spencer" or the cOrsage and sleeves of
| some contrasting color. A dress recently
made in Paris was from design in imita-
| ton of this old style. The dress is of rich
lavender silk, made with trained skirt, with
a wide hounce of lace around the bottom.
headed by a ruche of ribbon the same shade.
The spencer Is high in the neck, with close
sleeves, and is of silk of a delicate shade,
something like that of sea foam in a bright
| sunlight. 1t is square a la Pompadour in
| front, and edged with lace wrought in the
same designs as that upon the skirt.
Novelties in evening dress have recently
been brought out. Que of the most attrac-
tive is of light pearl gray satin. made with
| long train land having fifteen flohnces, two
inches wide around the bottom. These
ruffies are cut in small scollops and edged
fine White organdY. The Oyerskirt is of or
gandy,in larger scollops than hounces of the
skirt and trimmed with wide Valenciennes.
The waist square, both front and back, the
edge ornamented with ruffiiug of white or
CANDY. The sleeves are quite loose, and,
reaching only to the elbow. are finished with
three graduated ruffies of the organdy.
Another dress is of rose silk with a wide
fiounce upon the bottom of the skirt, cut in
points that are edged with white satin
fold. This fiounce is headed by q wide fold
of the silk and edged with white. The over
skirt is of white crepe de Chine, trimmed
with a narrow hounce, and the corsage is
the same.
A fanchion, formed of quillings of ruby
color velvet; the head of a Peruvian bird
was placed upon the edge of the border, and
q handsome black feather dropped from I'M
der it. The strings were of black satin.
A bonnet of Chinese pink velvet had a
pleated border, under narrow cross strips of
satin eft the same tint. A beautiful hedge
rose ofsatin is placed at the top with a tuft
of marabOut feathers at the sides. The
strings are of pink satin shot with white.
A third model has q small curved border,
! with high putting at the back. This bon
net is of blue velvet. The inside of the Dor
der is lined with frting Of white satin. A
scarf veil of white spotted tplle completes
the bonnet and goes round the neck. 1t is
loosely tied, and falls in lapels on the left
side.
The new medels of sortie du bal, or opera
cloaks, are mostly double circulars or bur-
houses.
A tasteful model is of white cashmere,
| lined with quilted cerise colored silk There
| Ii q small hood, lined in the same manner,
and gathered up with a ruby colored silk
cord and tasseI. A rich Oriental border.
embroidered in silks of various colors fol-
lows the whole outline Of the mantle, with
fringe of small round balls corresponding
in tints to the pattern of the border. Very
wide. pointed sleeves are trimmed In the
same style.
Another very elegant model is double
circular, the upper part Of which is black
velvet. and the under part black cashmere ;
both are slit open in the middle of the back.
The sleeves are ample The velvet part y
trimmed with double row of gold braid
dotted with gold; the cashmere part with o
deep border OF gold braidwork and o black
and gold fringe. The sleeves are Of CASH
mere and trimmed like the under part.