Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-04-10
THE FASHIONS.


AND WRISTS ARE TO BE DRESSED.
&c. &c. &C. ~
We give the lady readers Of the VTNDI-
GATOR this morning a very interesting ar
,icle ON the fashions for the Spring and
Summer-what they shall wear, and what
t shall cost, compiled from the "best au-
,horitiesr in the fashionable world. In
with this we may mention that
,he Petersburg Appeal suggests that
,he married men shall organize crusade,
md pray in front Of the dry goods and
millinery stores, and we might add the
that two or three families OF
children plaintiyely singing "come home
dear mother" in line on the pavement
might add to the effect:
A speedy return to positive colors is man
fest in the earliest importations OF spring
goods; all mongrel sickly hues, such as pea
cock and olive, will gradually disappear,
and we shall have instead the clear gray,
brown, and blue of ten years ago. Mahog.
any brown, it is said, will be the leading
color dark Napoleon blue is even more
largely imported than it was last year.
SPRING SILKS.
Twenty-one shades of mahogany brown
are found in the newly imported silks; ev.
cry tint of the wood is represented, from
the darkest hue, for street suits, up to the
palest ecru buff. Another brown, called
chataigne (chestnut,) has less of the Bis
marck yellow tinges, and can not fail to
find favor. Gray shades excel the brown
ones both in beauty and number, as eighty
pure, lovely variations of this fresh, cool,
spring like color are shown; those with
blue tinges are most frequent, such as ar
doise, or slate-color, roeher, heron gray, and
a very blue gray, called tenche, after Il spe-
cies Of carp; lichen gray belongs to the
same class of tints; gris R4sse is a pure and
simple hue, and Christiana gray is almost
black; pale gray, called Suede, is the
shade seen i'll undressed kid gloves, and
castor gray represents the castor gloves
Among host of blue shades rosemary and
the nearly black Napoleon blues are most
often repeated. Gas-light silks take also
deeper tones, though they are still very del
icate. Among these is eclcl1le, or fOam-green
azure and Indienne blue, pale-rose, girls
perle, tender lilac with pinkish hue, and
q new faint gray almost as blue as the sky.
SILK AND wooLEN MIXTURES.
A different class of goods is that with
raised silken figures on wooden grounds
The design is in self-color, either in wide
lines, polka dots, armure figures,
or else cheYron stripes. Two new cloths
for summer polonaises have the effect of
camels' hair woven in tiny horizontal
stripes of two shades Of wOOl-colOr. Light
qualities of Sicilienne are brought out for
the same purpose, and will be sold for about
81 a yard in single width. A new fancy
introduces lace-like stripe in the pretty
Sicilienne cloth this is shown in inch-wide
stripes of two shades OF pearl gray, blue
with white, blue and pearl, and black with
white. a
India silks and antique-looking pongee
silks are shown in brown and ecru shades,
with Zigzag stripes, for polonaiseS to be
cashmere is a novelty that offers pleasant
change from the long used plain cashmeres
There are also various new but antiquated-
looking stuffs that have rough WOODEN
stripes woven conspicuously on smooth
silken surfaces.
THE PRICES.
Cancels hair the most stylish fabric for
over dresses, is shown in various degrees
of thickness, some OF which are light
enough for midsummer wear. Very hand
some qualities of this goods woven in bas-
ket figures and in wide ''diagonals' are
sold for So yard, and measure fifty inches
in width; some very rough yet light CAM
els hair is a trifle more expensive; Il nov
city for So yard is untwilled camel's hail
of light loosely woven threads; while the
very lightest quality, with scarcely more
weight than sheer muslin, is sold for mid
summer use at 81 a yard; the new camel's
hair chale, exceeding all others in softness
and fineness, in two yards wide, and SIS a
yard. The colors that prevail among such
goods arc natural shades, eeru, cream-col-
or. darker brown, and various beautiful
hues of slvery gray. From four and halt
to five yards is the quantity sold for polo
naise. Casmir chevron is a quaint fabric
said to be of camel's hair, but far more stiff
and why; it comes in gray shades with re-
versed stripes, and costs 80 yard.
IN LOwER-PRIcED GOODS
there are pretty all wool basket serges
worth from 80 cts. to ST .35 a yard in charm
ing soft gray and brown hues, with fewer
mixed colors than have been worn lately.
Wool Siciliennes, new this season, are firm
ly woven fabrics that will make servicea-
Die and graceful suits for the first warm
days, and for country use all summer
Price IS cents Il yard, single fold. Tamise
cloth at 70 cents is familiar material that
still remains popular. De bcge, called now
camel's-llair de begs, is the flexible all
wool goods worn last year for travelling,
and liked because it does not rumple or
shrink, and is so light that dust Sits from
it by shaking; this, in natural wool browns
and grays three-quarters of a yard wide, is
IS cents yard, and is taking the place of
at this price. AT the popular price of so
cents yard are the various GRANTEES, of
softer fabric than when first introduced,
and showing in each piece all the grains
and shades of the stone for which it is
named.
FOR BOTH SPRING AND SUMNER
are beautiful foulard silks with grounds
blocks OF darker shades of the same color;
those of navy blue, drah. and slate-color
are most stylish The plain grenadines are
81 a yard, while more substantial fabrics,
both finely twilled and double twilled, are
$3.50. at the latter price are also armure
pongees in all ecru shades plain pongee
is 81.
Black alpacas will always be worn as the
most serviceable of dresses. They vary in
quality and degrees, from the coarse, frow-
zy fabric that quickly turns rusty to the
rich. lustrous brilliantine that retains it's
color until the last shred is worn out, and
sheds the dust from its glossy surface as
duck shakes the water from its plumage.-
This year a beautiful new alapaca, with
silk warp, is seen in market, that closely
resembles silk, at 81 so yard.
FOR THE NECK AND WRIST.
The newest crepe lisse pleatipgs for neck
Ind wrist are laid in fine pleatS almost as
small as if they were crimped. A popular
pattern fof ruffs is three graduated lisse