The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-02
The Latest Fashions.

SPRING COSTUMES.
The first indications of spring STYLES ara
found Ii suits of plaid and striped wool
goods, and in the new lace-fiQnred 1,er-
Gale costumes. There is nothing VET
very new In the manner of making fheee
Most of the early imported dresses have
basque and tabier, with sometimes a
| jacket; the skirt is, as usual, trimmed
with dounces, both plated and sbirred
headed by puffs. Great variety. how.
ever is given to costumes by employing,
two materials, one of plaid, and tie Other.
striped in the colors of the plaid. and the
object seems to be to have no two dresaes
| alike. Thus In one costume the sleeves.
skirt and hounces are striped, with q
basque and apron of plaids, while per-
haps the dress hanging beside it entirely
reverses this plan, and third costume
is mixture of both the others. The
apron promises to supersede the regular
over-skirt, 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 sniff
GENTLY ample to dispense with pufEs.
rufiies, or other elaborate trimming ON
the back of the underskiEt.
PLAID SUITS FOR SPRING.
There is no doubt that we are to have
a q,t0dTat!e season, not of high-colored
tartans, but of dark brown plaid
and soft gray tnts well blended These
are IN broken irregular plaids. even
cross-bars, pin-head checks, large blocks.
and every possible arrangement Of
squares. They are usually Shades of
some color, but the newest are ssillrnni-
mated, as dealers say, by lines and bars
OF vivid scarlet, blue, or ecru. Some
thing OF the illuminated lines appears In
the trimmings, as pipings, facings and
Inning OF bows, collar and sash ends.
De bege viii be the popular material In
these designs, and a large per centace Of
the importations is of brown shades.
LACE-FIGURED PERcALEs.
The novelty In soft-fnished French
percales Is lace-ike design of white
upon a 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 cuirass
PLAIN-BoRDERED PERoALEs.
Small checks and plain or striped
grounds form the foundation of MANY
percale suits that are trimmed with
dounces bordered with plaids of the
shades used in the dress. These are In
quaint grayish-blue with dark blue,
brown with ecru, pink with gray, pruna
with blue, etc. The material sells for
thirty-fve cents yard.
MADRAS CoLoRs.
Madras colors are the prevailing Paris
ian caprice for all kinds of fabrics
cottons, linens, batistes, woolens.
twilled silks, and grenadines. These are
chosen for their oddness and quaintness,
and in many instances their ugliness is
commended as their chief beauty. The
Oxford linens represent the colors shown
n bright Madras handkerchiefs, and
ihese will 1a the fashionable materials
Tor summer dresses.
ECRU LINENS.
Ecru linens are wrought in Hamburg
patterns OF very open figures, and have
ace to match imported with them.
some of these ecru fabrics are in striped
yuipure designs, and these also have lace
to correspond for garniture.
BLACK GRENADINES.
The checks and plaids of black
grenadines have grown to great size, the
most fashionable being in squares of two
inches, though the pin-head canvas
meshes of last year viii remain popular.
These checks are placed in stripes alter
mating with gros grain stripes, MORE, or
brocaded stripes. Perhaps the richest
of all are the velvet plaid grenadines.
having large bars of black velvet passing
each way on the sheer grenadine ground
LINEN LAWNS.
The cool, fresh-looking, linen lawns
are the lowest priced, most durable, and
tasteful of all cheap fabrics. These cost
from twenty-five cents to forty cents a
yard. The designs are waved stripes of
coral, blue or black. There are also
many plaids in color, and the usual dots.
dashes, stars, and lozenges.
CHECKED BORDERS.
Pin-head checks cut to form bias bands
will be much used for trimming goods of
solid color. This will be especially
popular for blue and white summer silks.
brown and white, ana black with white.
When the dress is made of these small
checks, large blocks are used for
borders. Brown and white check silks,
trimmed with larger checks, viii make
pretty travelling dresses for brides.
SPRING sHAwLs.
New square shawls for early spring
days have plain centers, with lighter
band for borders, and are reversible.
Thus light gray shawl with dark gray
border on one side viii leave the other
center of dark gray with light border.
The fringe is richly tasseled. Harper