The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1876-04-13

Fa.hsc nable.
New Poionaiaes are the 'ong, piati
habit garments We have already described
and, like the new ove-skl-ts, almost con
oeal the dress skirt beneath them.
Shoulder seams are sill made shor
and high The long side form continue in
favor, as they give the long WASTED slender
appearance now sought after.
-Ecru, white and black lace scarfs arr
being worn around the neck, with Outside
wrappings, instead of the furs that have
heen 80 little needed all this Wild winter.
| -Debege suits have plain brown s!esves
with striped basques and overskirts. The
side plating is of the striped fabric, ar
ranged to show a certain stripe on top Of
each plat
The best gloves are without ornamen.
tai stitching. are velted with white around
the wrists, and are 70 long wristed that
they require three or four buttons to fasten
them.
Large barns of hand made cashmere
lace are worn with house dresses, and are
especially appropriate when the neck and
wrists OF the dark dress are trimmed with
plated cashmere lace.
The fancy in slippers is now for the
handsome gold embroidered Turkish slip
pers, with merely the toes and the soles and
mounted on heels They are worn to balls
as we'll as in the house.
The new ostrich feather fans have
mother Of pearl or ivory handles; the up
per part Of each rib Is an ostrich feather !;
the tips are curled and they can be had in
every shade to match dresses.
Another style of fan is round in form
and composed of cocks feathers, black, pink
or white. They have a looking glass or
bouquet of flowers in the centre, and can be
suspended from the girdle.
Buttons are small and Of the dress ma
terial, or else they are covered with the
repped silk used in trimming. The coat
sleeves are very close fitting, and have
small, simply shaped, neat-ftting cuffs.
Bows of cream colored silk drape, the
skirt and ornament the basque. These are
to be worn owe: brown, black, blue or pur-
pie silk or velvet skirts. The fashion of
using bark bows on these light dresses is
pdssee.
Lace mittens are called Centennial
gloves, and are imported in black, cream
color and gray. The handsomest black
lace mitts have thumbs, but no fingers, and
are three-quarters long, with three frills of
lace on the arm.
-Overskirts abound, and instead of be-
ing diminished, they almost conceal the
lower skirt, and in many cases are lower
and wider than the close plain skirt worn
under them, and of which only part Of
the founce on each side is shown.
"A new sort of opera work ecru gauze
has been introduced for neckties. A long
straight strip is all that is required, tied in
bow at the throat Crepe lisse with plait-
fancy braids, is also fancy style of neck
tie.
1t is said that dark green, blue and
brown grenadine dresses will be fashiona-
bly, worn in the summer, though of course
not TO the exclusion of the favorite black
grenadine. These come in lace-like stripes
and block, like those described for solid
black.
Caps are smaller than they were. They
rest on the top of the head, and are coquet-
fish and becoming for full dress. The
crowns are often made entirely of soft
surah silk, and new and admirable imita-
ton Of point d'Alencon is favorite trim
ming.
ball dresses, and sashes of brocade, satin or
elk the same color "a the tulle dress, are
most fashionable. They are cut wide, and
generally draped straight or diagonally
across the front, ending in bows at the
back.
Pockets are much worn now to match
the dress and are very fanciful and pretty.
The most popular have long ends of rib
bon depending from them, and are gather
ed up with an elastic, looking like half |
opened bag; sometimes they have flowers |
on them.
The richest cream-colored parasols will |
be Of brocaded silk, edged with cashmere |
lace. Lace parasols are little used now
The accepted carriage parasol is a small |
screen or turn over shade Of black or Of |
white silk, richly embroidered and with |
ivory handles.
pendent behind, remain popular on the |
usually of cardinal red or OF cream color,
&c tNVsC t"o sh6uCs arc uuOTc uctu tudu oil i
others, and are now considered appropriate |
contrasts with nearly all colora-
New parasols have quaint looking
pointed tops, and are called steeple tops,
pagodas, or canopy tops. This is an old |
lime shape revived, and it is completed by
Deing fastened by a ring suspended from a
,ord, to which ribbon bow is attached, |
and which serves as an ornament when the |
parasol is opened.
Embroidery is gaining rather than
DOSING in popular favor. The Florentine
overdress is the most beautiful thing in
that can be imagined. 1t is of |
black faille, almost covered with flowers,
worked in pale tint, and in the style of the |
sixteenth century. 1t ia finished on the
.dge with black chenille friege.
The newest style of pocket handker-
chiefs has a colored border of plain muslin
attached by a button-hole stitch to the
and worked around in seal
ops, the corners remaining white. Colored
embroidery is much introduced also in the
,orders of handkerchiefs, and on silk pock-
which are popular at
present.
-lhe marked feature oil the Lafayette
'acque is the long side forms in the back,
,eginning in the shoulder seames. These
1--WE the long wasted appearance now
bought desirable for garments that cover
he body, whether basques, jacques or man.
les. The side forms slope gracefully over
he tournure without a wrinkle OF fullness,
md fit closely enough about the body to
display the outlines of the figure.
Some of the new fichus for spring wear
ire like three cornered kerchiefs of lawn,
dyed on the two lower sides with fine val
.nciennes lace at least a quarter of a yard
ride this lace is joined at the corners so
PERFECTLY that it has all the effect of having
zen wrought in that shape. Other fichues
ire made of three or four straight long
Odds of white brocade silk, edged on each
tide with valenciennes lace. Round the
hroat the lace is futed and stands up.