The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-04-09
SPRING FASHION NOTES.
Jackets are all made long.
Lace parasolS are little used

Old lace is more worn than ever.
Fashionable boots have round toes.
Street dresses are to be worn short.
Cream is the color for evening gloves.
The capote is the favorite hat of Paris.
Club sticks for paiasols are out oi
style.
Mexican grenadine ties are pretty
novelties
Ecru colored lace is fashionable for
curtains.
Half hose will be worn again by little
children.
Black lace mittens will be worn in the
! summer
Foulards and cambrics are to be used
for street dresses
Basket cloths make UP handsomely
Tor walking jackets
Lace fringes and flowers are the fash
ionable trimmings.
Most of the spring hats are profusely
trimmed with flowers.
Fringes with deep netted headings
will be used for trimming
Gabrielle polonaises will be much
worn. They are draped but little in the
back, and are quite full in front.
Turned-down collars are broad behind
and rounded in front, or else square
cornered in Byron shape.
Carriage parasols are small turnover
screens Of black or white silk, richly
embroidered, and with ivory handles.
Handsome silk suits have brocaded
over-dresses. and the inexpensive sum
mer silks are in shaded stripes.
| Satin d'Afrique, which is satin on one
side and repped gros grain on the other,
is rich fabric for spring bonnets.
Round full lace collars, falling over
the dress, are worn by children. In the
back they are tied with ribbon bow.
For children brown linen aprons, with
bodlces worked in crewels in q sort of
butter-cup design, are being introduced
Blue linen suits, embroidered in white
or ecru, and gray linen, embroidered in
brown or black, are again fashionable.
Swiss muslin ties, with heavily en-
broidered ends, are to be worn around
the neck out of doors as the spring ad-
vanceS
White marseilles or pique, with Ham
burg embroideres for trimmings, makes
| pretty and appropriate suits for chill
| dren.
Some of the new ribbons arc so thick
/ that they have the appearance of being
wadded, and vet they are as flexible as
| lutte strings.
The silks for trimming summer bon
nets are soft brocades and basket woven,
all Of one shade, with tiny figures in
raised designs.
shades are finished like Balbriggan
stockings, with regular" seams; they
are long enough to reach half way to
the elbow, and are both plain and
clocked
Ladies balbriggan and Lisle-thread
hose are now made elaborately EN-
broidered in beautiful designs, with
plain and fancy colored silk floss.
Braids Of silk or wool, plain black or
mixed with gold, silver, or steel thread,
are used for trimmings Of silk and
damask suits
Efforts have been made to introduce
new styles in wells, but ladies remain
partial to the small mask VEIL drawn
tightly over the face.
The Martha Washington hat or bon
net has a standing brim, which is bent
in at the front, back, and two sides,
until it touches the crown.
White satin and white lace, worked
with very small white beads initiating
fine pearls, is favOrite style Of orna-
mcnt for rich ball dresses.
Thin materials for bonnet trimmings
are gauze ribbons in contrasting colors,
such as navy blue and cream, or cardi-
nal with pale French gray.
Stylish, long wasted basques show @
great number Of seams and side forms
one bodice sometimes numbering as
many as fifteen seams.
Early spring parasols and ladies
umbrellas are of black or dark shades
Of silk serge. Summer parasols are Of
light pongees with colored Innings.
Fashionable ladies have different
pairs of colored stockings for every suit,
being very particular that the color
should match that Of the suit or its
trimmings.
Jet ornaments remain in favor, and
are always desirable, as they can be
worn with almost anything.
The newest princesse robes lace at the
back, the lacing being carried consider
ably below the waist.
Lace mittens are called Centennial
gloves. They are imported in black,
gray and cream colors.
The new high-necked corset cover has
n yoke Of putfs and insertion in the front,
but is plain in the back
OverSkirtS are cut long, reaching al
most to the bottom Of the underskirt,
which has very little trimming.
A pretty individual salt-cellar is of
silver in the shape Of pond lily on a
leaf. The lily is lined with gold
Pockets for the overskirts of suits are
made full, shirred top and bottom, and
sometimes lengthwise.
Black kid gloves, when not intended
for mourning, are generally stitched in
colors on the back of the glove.
Black cashmere and drap d'ete
sacques are mostly trimmed with tape
fringes and moss heading.
Dresses for girls from two to eleven
years Of age are made quite short, just
reaching to the knee.
Brown is the fashionable color for
gloves; it is seen in ALL shades, from
seal to pale buff.
Nov oh q hi r
ments. nearly concea]ing the skirts
beneath them.
The false front OF hair, with an invisi-
BILE hair net, is much in vogue. 1t is inn
possible to tell that it is false, 50 perfect
an imitation is it, and then it saves ones
own hair, which is always injured if fire.
quently crimped.
A pretty way Of making the skirt Of a
dress is to have the front breadth and
two side cores trimmed in any way that
may suit the fancy, but the back
breadth has no trimming, and is made
into large double box pleat or vatican.
An ecru colored chip hat, the ''jaun-
ty'' shape, has crown trimming OF
ecru and pink silk bows, with ecru silk
lace wound between them, and an ecru
ostrich tip waving over the crown. The
fall trimming consists of pink and tea
roses embedded in ecru lace.
An elegant wrapper is made Of pale,
blue cashmere The skirt is gored and
quite plain. except in the back, where 1t