The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-03-30

Feather trimming of all kinds viii
figure largely during the spring season.
Small buttons of the croche; pattern
are fashionable
Calico dresses, it is alleged, are coming
in vogue for street wear.
-Harper's Bd-uT thus describes the lates
novelty, the lafayette sasque:
Graduated fringes, woven very wide in
the middle, and narrow on the sides, are
aristocratic and somewhat expensive.
The most stylish garnitures seen o.
Princesse forms oil dresses are perpendicular
and fiat.
For full promenade or visiting toilet
plain ecru or cream colored chip hats viii
he more worn than white.
Black silk sacques will be worn for
street wraps, cut very long and of similar
shape to those nov in vogue.
The latest things in thimbles is q cal
piece OF agate, onyx, or crystal inserted H.
the top OF the usual rim of silver or gold.
The aureola brim will be the fashion.
able shape in bonnets for the spring. Most
Of the untrimmed bonneis have the low
crowns.
-Basques with continental waistcoats,
worn over deep, round overskirt, and long
princess polonaises, are both fayorite style,
for making up calico dresses.
The pauline" sscque is dressy and vel
simple. 1t has loose fronts and very wid.
sides forms. The style of garniture is q
vide silk braid and neat fringe
-Hairpins covered with silk to mattel
the weareris hair are something new. They
are invisible, and keep in place better than
the other kind.
There are some few styles of spring
chapeaux that sit over the forehead, but
the majority will have the appearance
OF being left behind while the wearing goes
ahead.
The marked features of the LAFAYETTE
sac4ue is the long side forms in the back,
in the shoulder seams. These
give the long waisted appearance now
thought desirable for garments that cover
the body, whether ba.ques sacques, or
These side forms slope gracefully
over the tournure without Q wrinkle of fol-
ness, and fit closely enough about the body
to display the outlines Of the figure. =
The loose easy shape of this back Is des-
troyed if it is belted to the waist BY an in
side belt, as sacques have been done of late
The front hsngs partly open, and ia deeply
pointed making it much longer thin ihe
back. The collar is turned over in Byron
shape. The coat sleeves are large enough
10 be drawn on easily without crushing the
,ufis and frills of dress sleeves. The Lafa-
yette sacque may be may be made or any of
he stylish materials used for separate
wraps that are to be worn with variety of
iresses, such as cashmere, drap d'ete cam
.fs hair, Sicilienne, summer cloth, or black |
-eppeo silk, or else it he made of the ma
erial of the costume with which il is worn.
The sacque used for our model is of black |
cashmere, trimmed with Titan braid and /
ringe. This black cashmere of the heayi.
r drsp d'ete will continue to be the ac-
epted fabric for wraps that are used for
.eneral wear. Novelties have been intro
luced, bet nothing seems to please so well /
$ this soit finely twilled WOOL.
1t should be lined throughout with far
ners satin, (which may be bought for S7}
ents per yard) or with thin lining silk.
he wide wool braids from one to three
inches broad are chosen for trimming plain
Traps. while for more elsbor.is ooes silk
alloon i used. Fiases are Of ths most
laborste kind clc-s!S folded knife pleas-Sl