Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-04-08
The Latest Fashions
SPRING COSTUMES.

striped wool goods, and IN the new
lace figured percale costumes. There |
is nothing yet very new in the manner |
of making these. Most of the early |
imported dresses have bask and lab |
lier, with sometimes Jacket; the skirt |
is, as usual, trimmed with flounces |
both plated and shirred, headed by |
puffs. Great variety, however is Civ /
en- to costumes by employing two ma
terials, one of plaid, and the other |
striped in the colors of the plaid, and |
the object seems to be to have no two |
dresses alike. Thus in one costume |
the sleeves, skirts and 1ounces are
striped, with a basque and apron of |
plaids, while perhaps the dress hang
ing beside it entirely reverses this |
plan, and third costume is a mixture
of both the others. The apron prom
ises to supercede the regular overskirt
and it is also the objective point for
trimming, having triple bands laid on
to initiate or outline these aprons, or
else there are two deep pointed aprons
trimmed separately; at the back are
straight wide breadths, hanging in
sash-loops or else plain, and these are
sufficiently ample to dispense with
| puffs, ruffles, or other elaborate trim
ming on the back of the underskirt.
PLAID SUITS FOR SPRING.
There is no doubt that we are to
have q quadTGlIe season, not of high
colored tartans, but of dark brown
plaid and soft gray tints well blended.
These are in broken irregular plaids,
even cross-bars, pin head checks, large
blocks, and every possible arrange
ment of sqaures. They are usually
shades of some color, but the newest
are illuminated as dealers say, by
lines and bars of vivid scarlet, blue,
or ecru. Something Of the illumina-
ted lines appears in the trimmings, as
pipings, facings and lining of bows,
collar and sash ends. De berge will
be the popular material in these de-
signs, and large percentage of the
importations is of brown shades.
LAcE-FIGURED PERcALEs.
The novelty in soft finished French
percales is lace-like design of white
upon q color, blue, brown, ecru, gray
or black. This lace figure is in open
webs, and in star and compass patterns
like those found in Hamburg work
and English embroidery. Sometimes
the design is in stripes, again it covers
the entire ground, and in many cases
it forms side bands near the selvage
for trimming the tablier, sash and cui-
rass.
PLAIN AND BoRDERED PERCALES.
Small checks and plain or striped
grounds form the foundation Of many
percale suits that are trimmed with
flounces bordered with pIaids of the
shades used in the dress. These are
in quaint grayish- blue with dark blue,
brown with ecru, pink with gray,
t prune with blue, etc. The materia
sells for thirty five cents a yard.
r MADRAS CoLoRs.
Madras colors are the prevailing
Partisan caprice for all kinds Of fab
ics-eettons, linens, batistes, wool
{ ems, twilled silks and grenadines
/ These are chosen for their oddness anC
quaintness, and in many instance:
their ugliness is commended as theil
chief beauty The Oxford linens rep
l resent the colors shown in brigh'
f be the fashionable materials for sum
q mer dress.
. EcRU LINENS.
II Ecru linens are wrought in Ham
} burg patterns of very open figure
a and have lace to match imported wit
# them. Some of these ecru fabrics ar
d in striped guipure designs, and thes
:, also have lace to correspond for gal
niture.
BLACK GRENADINES
The checks and plaids of blac
gredadines have grown to great sizt
: the most fashionable being in square
e of two inches, though the pin-hea
: canvas meshes of last year will renal
popular. These checks are placed i
stripes alternating with gros graf
stripes, MORE, or brocaded stripes
Perhaps the richest of all are tn
= velvet plaid grenadines, having larg
4 bars of black velvet passing each wa
$ on the sheer grenadine ground.
'e LINEN LAWNS.
lie The cool, looking, linen lawn
l are the lowest priced, most durable
and tasteful of all cheap fabrics. Thes
cost from twenty five cents to fort
IL cents yard. The designs are wave
stripes of coral, blue or black. Their
ID are also many plaids in colors, an
" the usual dots, dashes, stars and 10;
20 enges.
CHECKED BORDERS.
.s Pin-head checks cut to form bis
-. bands will be much used for trimmin
te goods of solid color This will |
IN especially popular for blue and whi
Te summer silks, brown and white, an
black with white. When the dress
made of these small checks, lare
= blocks are used for borders. Brow
10 and white check silks, trimmed wit
C. larger checks, will make pretty tra'
e. cling dresses for brides.
= SPRING sHAwLs.
e. New square shawls for early sprin
III days have plain centers, with light
band for borders, and are reversibl
Thus light gray shawl with dal
:; gray border on one side will leave Il
- other center of dark gray with lig
ng border The fringe is richly tassele
lat = Harper's Bazaar.
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- 'HMine Host," of the Hivling Hou
q" has had practical illustration of tt
OF workings Of the Civil Rights bill.
few days since, a well dressed an
genteel looking colored man presentt
I'll himself at the Office and asked at VIII
D. hour they suppered, and if he cou
=, be accommodated. The landlord su
=. pecting "put up job" on him, i
lce formed the interrogation that he cou