Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
The FASHIONS.

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and upon 1t and inside of its upward
front rests conservatory of flowers.
There are numerous other shapes, each
pretty, some coquettish, all becoming,
light and graceful withal. Straw is dis
appearing and in its place is chip of the
highest and finest ecru, dust color, drab,
black and white. The English round
hat viii be very popular as affording pro-
lection TO the eyes. All of the hats have
dropping streamers behind, but there are
no strings and very few feathers are seen.
AS the beauty of the bonnet consists in
the heaped-up masses of flowers on the
front, there is evidently no room yet for
the proposed change III walls. The stiff
scrap of lace or tulle will, therefore, con-
tinue In use placed under the hat, to the
injury of the eyes, and with the loss of
the grace given by floating lace. The
newest shapes imported are called La
Bruno, Lucia, the Ristori, the Bon Ton,
and In English, the Warwick, with 81 high
round crown and faring brim the very
piquant Girofa turned up at the left
side. A coquettish sailor hat is called
Castalia and there are other shapes, the
front or back being decided by the
trimming.
For early spring and cool summer days
there is large display of "suitings,"
so called from being made up simply
with other fabrics in suit. These are
In ali wool broken plaids, extremely soft
and fine, of single width, called camel's
hair; twilled, damasked, diamond
blocked, birds eye and diagonal, in
drabs, grays, blue-gray, and neutral
tinted ground, with thread-like bars and
broken lines of blue, red, dashes of
green, dull blue and gold color The
overskirt and basque are made of these
fabrics, and the skirt and sleeves of silk,
the color of the darkest or most promi-
nent dark shade of the plaid. These
cost so cents and 81 a yard. All Oriental
stuffs are fast gaining popularity deli
cate grey japanese silks of this season
have tiny black figures scattered over
their surface with here and there an en-
bossed white fossy silk figure, giving an
exceedingly silvery look by gaslght.
Black silks are more lustrous than they
have been for many years past, and much
finer in the reps. American silks are
steadily gaining in popularity ON account
of their rich appearance, durability and
freedom from all chemical dyes and
mixtures The colored silks of thisman
ufacture come in all the new fashionable
tints the Oxford, cold, blue gray; a
Russian gray of pinkish hue; seal brown
and beige brown; iujube, red brown
like paste; all shades of steel and dust
color and olive and bronze greens, deep
green, and violet merging into plum
shades. Besides these are all the light
evening shades. The colored American
silks are especially adapted for street
wear.
A novelty this spring is grlipure gren-
adine, or called by others ccru linen,
open worked in Hamburg designs, or
like English embroidery, so very open
that scarcely any of the fabric is to be
seen.
At present, fashions seem to have set
tied into the crIirass and long apron,
scanty skirts with much less trimming,
and quantities of shirr. Stirring is in
troduced in sleeves, waists, aprons,
headings of fiounces and ruffles. The
figure viii not be disguised by volumin-
Gus drapery and quantities of trimming.
1t is impossible to do away with the use
full, pretty and economical polonaise,
covering as it does multitude of evils
in the way of shortcomings in the dresses
of past season. So they come again in
cashmere, k-trimmed, and jet-embroid-
cred, and in braided and embroidered
camel's hair
There are several important changes IN
fashionable jewelry. A taste for colored
stones is revived, in accordance with the
passion for everything Oriental in dress.
-Neac York Tribune.
THE DAMNED ICE.
There is one preacher In Pert Jervis
n. Y, who has been enabled for the last
few weeks to indulge in a luxury thai
generally is denied to men of his profes
sion. He lived In the line of building!