The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-03-07

dear, according to TIE prices We have 10 pay, at
eighty seven cents and dollar per yard. The
Washing sstns (cotion) viii largely take the
place OF piqteS as the summer advances. All
the prints aud eambrics exhibited are In striped
patterns, French, English and American. The
French are forty-fVe cents per yard, and are
much bought for wrappers and for cutting into
strips TO trim chl1rens' linen dresses and aprons
Best English prints andcambrics are twenty five
cents per yard, and American goods Of the same
width, but inferior quality, fifteen.
Black silks are so far reduced In price that q
very excellent guaranteed make can be-obtGIned
from three to five dollars per Yard. Cheap black
silk is never an economical purchase, and less 30
than ever now that the making up. requires SO
much labor, and is SO much more work OF art
very good plan for ladies' OF umted means. II
always do it myself Is to buy the, quality OF SILK
required for 8 ceremonious dress, nuke 1t long for
the first season, or even for two seasons, and
the first with new one. Two black silk dresses,
a long one and short one, are worth SIX Of any
other kind or degree.
NEW COSTUMES.
The new suits and costumes for spring all sug-
gest more or less the. pretty and convenient tn.
for the first time last summer, and 1t once OBJ
tanned q fashionable vogue. The black cashmere
costumes, trimmed with black velvet and guipure
lace, or lace and passamenterie, have reappeared.
style, and are as ladyltke and distinguished as
ever The Only limit to the extent to which they
win probably be worn is In the difficulty or OBJ.
pearea, and the supply OF black being restricted
New poplLn suits are made with one sSirt, and
the casaque coat, sort Of polonaise, cut with
side lappels, and a p0stllion' basque over q
straight skirt, caught ap high at the sides.
The mostpepular method OF trimming is to ar.
range iounce In clustered pleats upon the lower
skirt, place straps or ornaments or velvet 10 the
spaces, and simply finish the upper skirt and
Jacket with broad band Of velvet. Black cash.
mere costumes are worn over black silk walking
skirts, ami also oVerskirts or gray irish pOplins
or Japanese silk. trimmed with black velvet.
The met fashlonaby worn costumes are Of q
different material, though not always Of dif
worn. One Of the simplest yet most distinguished
consists OF 81 straight upper skirt OF Blk, trimmed
with broad band OF velvet; walking skirt OF vel
vet without trimming, except the double piping
with posti lion basque laid In large hollow plaits
is made Tor outdoor and dinner dress, accom-.
panied by . small pagoda sleeve cut up on the
back and trimmed on the outside to match the
body ON the inner edge with soft 1eathered satin
ruchiig. new and very dressy style OF over.
skirt is cut square and very long al ine Dack Dut
is rounded upon the sues, anu iala IN very A large arge
is TO make the centre OF the back hang straight,
wlthIlttle apparent fullness Willie Inc sues are
yery bouir;,nf The postlllon Jacket is the proper
bodice with this orersEirt, as lt IS plain On me
sides And has the full postillion basque at the
hack. The coat basqune, on the contrary, wlta
its vide lappels and pointed back, may be worn
with the straight overskirt simply looped high on
the sides, or with dress trimmed with nounces,
and worn without an oversIlrt.
THE DEMAND FOR NOVELTY.
Because Paris has been closed for q few months,
peope are beginning to talk OF old styles as II we
were suffering from o lack OF novelty. The truth
ia, the French styles OF one season were always
repeated the next, and as yet We have hardly mad
time to enjoy the pretty and convenient designs
which last summer gave us, and which Ladies lV'
ing far in the Interior have only by accident seen.
Any very great change for The present would be
r. q, misfortune. for nothing call be more grace
full more becoming and, at the same lime, more
simple and useful than the styles we have. Those
who want entire change-ougM TO De sent oacx 70
The multiplicity or cumbersome pettcoats, the
straight, ugly folds OF the dress, too short for
grace, too long for comfort; to the nat boots, the
huge bonLetS, the long. 1applDg wells, and wide
cardinal capes, with arm-hoes IN which the el'
bows were encssed helplessly OF twenty to TWEEN.
ty five years ago. A Very brief experience OF this
Kind would make them return with thanEfulness
to the modern costume.
STRING BoNSETs.
1t Is too early as yet to speak definitely OF
spring bonnets. It may be safely assumed. now
ever, that the straw gy psey in modified l0rm
will be the prominent style, ana black viewer,
grasses and flowers the best worn trimmings. lt
ia not at all likely that the new shapes VIII be
greatly enlarged In size, the profuson OF halr still
worn lorbiding 1t, md the small bonrets being
recognized everywhere Infinitely more becoming;
but th-y will doubtless include the former
"poiuts.H crown. brlm anil curtain, which the
little "sancer:' wholly ignored. and be pfQuan, II
not serious and distinguished One OF the pret
ticst models OF new round hats is miniature
castor. II IL especially adapted for brown or
black straw, and Is tho rage Tor 1riues' traveng
with long ends two feather tips or one, and an al
grete and a JeweIled horse shoe Tor luck.