Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-04-12
SOCIETY AND FASHION.

Louis Quinzc heels are the style for
high stepping folks.
Black cashmere sleeveless vest will be
worn with Spring suits.
Etruscan cloth is new dress material
woven from linen thread.
Embroidered camel's hair polonaises
will be very fashionable this Spring.
The fashionable evening gloves are
Of soft ocau de Scude, with six or eight
buttons.
Initial note paper has superseded the
monogram, and thrce-cornered paper is
in order.
For midsummer, linen suits with
sleeveless vest of dark Napoleon blue
linen will be worn.
Black silk stockings, with low shoes,
are the latest chaussure for young New
York in full dress.
A rapid increase of the reputed French
fashion among certain ladies of parting
tho hair on the side is notable.
Lace handkerchiefs are growing too
common among the wealthy to be fash
ionab!e with the servant girls.
Gentlcman's Spring has have been
introduced. They do not differ TO any
great extent from those worn last year.
AT recent fashionable wedding all
the guests signed document whereby
they declared that they had witnessed
the ceremony performed, etc.
Street costumes elaborately embroid-
cred with brilliant colored worsted will
be among the Spring novelties. They
are imported" we believe.
White neckties for full dress are
worn very wide; our fathers wore just
such neckties, and we shall soon
be back to the stock" of our grandfath-
erS.
Many of the dem i-saison costumes are
made entirely without trimming, their
only ornament being handsome set OF
buttons of tortoise shell or oxydized
silver
Watches of the most peculiar design
are now en- ca1!elains. One of the odd
est is a silver deaths head, modelled
after the celebrated men,ento mori watch
of Mary Queen of SCOTS.
The Late-hours reform has com.
menced in Washington. Many ladies
hold dancing receptions in the morn
ing, and correspondent remarks that
late hours are not quite fashionable.
The news seems almost to good to
be true, but it is officially announced
that false hair is hereafter to be entirely
taboed from the heads of fashionable 10.
dies. But what will they look like?
Black silk, black cashmere and cam.
els hair cloth will be as much employed
as ever for suits and polonaises, the lat.
ter richly embroidered and ornamented
with new knotted ball fringe, instead ol
lace.
The styles are loud this season. Pos
tive colors with white dots, like an
Englishman's sporting neck-tie, alter.
nate with dashing stripes in black.
gray and white broche figures on every
sort of stuff, and plain fabrics whose
claim to style is their resemblance to
1ongshore mans ovorcoats.
The stylish girl will come out this
Spring in polonaise of Napoleon blue
almost as deep as navy blue, with pol.
ka dot, and refuse altogether to be con.
sidered the girl of the period after all
The master of the house will 20 home
some warm evening this month to find
his wife in costume of chocolate foul.
ard, with dice pattern in white, and be
expected to admire it.
The prettiest styles in sleeveless jack.
cts are the Lucia and the Vilette, the
former very simple with three tabs In
the back. and the latter pointed in
front with partition back. Sleeveless
polonaises, as they are called, will al.
so be much in vogue, the sleeves being
made ofthe same material as the under
skirt. Any style Of polonaises can be
used for this purpose, and q simple coat
sleeve is the most appropriate for the
purpose.