The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-03-16


tabs In front. turning down over the neck
tie. Double fraises OF wash-bloDde have the
inner quilting lower than the outer. Lace
barbes of silken lace come In every fashion.
able shade, and are seycnty-fiye cents EACH
Black lace barbes with long ends, made OF
net and edged with guipure, are carelessly
knotted around the throat below the ruff,
and fastened with single rosebud or spray
OF tiny blossoms.
Talle handkerchiefs of various shades are
worn in the same fashion, and it is rumored
tnat large square handkerchiefs of white
muslin with white or colored embroidery on
the edge, folded through the middle from
corner 70 corner, are expected to form the.
iayorite neck-wear on the street, -
Fralses for mourning have the outer pleat-
ings OF black, the inner OF white crepe lisse
or tarletane.
1t is too early to give any definite informa.
tion with regard TO ,.7,' -
Isl :..g.s~.. BoNNETs, !,
since none of our millners have yet bad their
spring openings. Soft chips in black and in
white-beaded tulle and wild fowers-will
be the materials most used. The Normandy
and Rabagas shapes figure largely iii fresh
|importations, and isletters to our fashion
exchanges predict that they will be more
lofty Of stature than ever. Wells are merely
a quarter of yard Of beaded tulle pinned
over the face. Newer but less popular is
iHNe~aeaded only on the lower edge-woven
in the proper width for a veil, and sold by
the yard in our dry goods stores.
..5i =. TIE HAIR
is massed on the top of the head aud plas-
tered on the forehead in tiny wayes-a fash.
ion too trying to most faces to be otherwise
than eyanesceut. Curls and frizzes give
needed relief to the baroness Of the head be-
hind. In - @a "
FASHIONS FOR CHILDREN
there is little change, and nothing newer OF
prettier than the Kill skirts and Knicker'
booker pants for small boys, and the French
woke apron-worn also as dress-and the
gabrielle for girls. Percales, piques, and soft
wooflen fabrics are made into sailor suits for
both sexes and there is rumor that the
old fashioned infant-waist, with straigbt,
ll-gathered skirt, is to be the fayorite style
for making up cambrics and linen lawns for
babies in their first short clothes.
| Hamburg edgings are shown in greater
variety, and prettier patterns than ever,
ranging in price from ten cents to 50 per
yard-the wider and handsomer bands be-
ing intended for the bottoms of the little
straight skirts, and woven on cambric
sufficiently wide to furnish the depth re-
quired in itself. At an importing house,
which makes specially of such goods, we
were shown gabrielles of linen lawn, with
linen guipure inserted in the seams, front
and back, and trimmed with edge to cor
rerpond. A useful novelty is pique insert.
ing, the embroidery being wrought on pique
instead Of muslin or cambric, and therefore
Especially adapted to trimming piques.
The bands are stitched on, the material
underneath is cut away, and the junction
hidden by narrow pique braid.
Medallions come also, and are put on in
like manner, linen gupure edge forming 6
pretty finish for these. The trimming is
Still handsomer if gupure inserting be let il
around each medallion. -.,,..-- ..
Braiding with cord is much used on suit:
for small boys, and the striped stockings in
troduced last year are universal. ..