The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-03-09
Spring Fashion.

SPRING GOODS.-1le new spring WOOL
ems are the first importations displayed.
These are soft and yielding, and though
of pure wool, have scarce more weight
than the sheerest cambria. The greatest
number are self cOlOred in the small neat
figures that have been fashionable during
the winter, such as armures, basket
woven designs; raised checks and blocks,
stripes with quadrille bars raised upon
them, matelasse, and damask figures
with open lace-like meshes woven
around them. Summer camePs.hair,
cashmere, and other twilled stuffs are
-hown, but diagonals are no longer nov
elites, and the small figures will have the
preference. Experienced merchants say
that gray will be more worn than it has
been since brown replaced it two years ago,
and that fawn, steel and drab shades will
be popular; also that the fancy for myr-
tie green and navy blue will continue,
especially when these cOlors are combined
with white in tiny checks smaller than
pin heads, and in various oriental cOmbi-
nation bath Of figures and colOrs.
DE BEGEs.-De beges are no longer
plain or merely twilled, but are imported
in the stylish small figures, armures,
stripes, checks and metelasse, patterns in
shaded gray or brown. Raised irregular
squares are seen in de bege stufs, and
the fine cashmere de beges with thick
twill is provided in abundance in the
blue steel shades that were so difficult to
find last summer. These will be chosen
for the first spring suits, and will be used
as travelling and morning dresses all
through the summer.
CHECKS AND STRIPES. wool
ems will be worn again, but the best quail
tiles will be finer even than pin head
checks, because these very fine checks
cannot be copied by domestic manu-
facturers. These will be chosen in myr-
tie green and white, ink blue and white,
gold on brown, aud of course black with
white. These remain in favor TOR misses
and young girls, and will be displayed in
both double and single widths. There
are also checked stripes with solid stripes
between, or else brown; cardinal and
white are the cOlors.
How TO MAKE PERCALE DRESS IS
Ladies who make up their summer ward
robes in February and March usually be-
gin with wash dresses, leaving their
handsomest suits to the last in order TO
get the latest fashions, hence novelties
for the wash goods are the first to be
provided by the importers, and We
hasten TO record these There will be !
both polonaises and basques with over
skirts. Two kinds of percale are required |
for most suits; one of these is of solid |
color, the other is in stripes, sprigs, or in
India designs with borders. There are
long simply shaped princesse polonaises
Of indigo blue percale, striped with gold
and white, worn, over plain blue per
Gale skirt, OF which the merest glimpses
Of its two or three narrow gathered ruff
fes are shown, as the long pOlOnaise has
for its only draping two pleats in the
middle of the back below the long Mar
yuerite cOrsage. On its side form, and
luite far back, is large square plain
blue pocket, with two ruffies across the
on, and a strap of pale blue ribbon tied
lcross the centre and finished with long
o )ps and ends. The striped sleeve has
imilar trimmings for cuffs. The plain
,Iue collar is turned over in English
points in 'front.' The buttons down the
ntire front are blue vegetable ivory, or
lse smoked pearl, sewed on with eye'.
The trimming around the bottom is
has blue band, piped with gOld-color,
nd finished with cotton fringe of mixed
,lue, gold and white. A similar suit has
pOlOnaise of brown percale striped with
rpam and white, and trimmed on the
'ockets, wrists, and down the entire
ront with long-looPed bows of cardinal
ibbon.
Another polonaise, with clinging
rincesse front, and the back draped and
angling in square tabs, is of India red
CURES on navy blue ground. There is a
lastron of plain blue down the front,
nd the border is of solid blue. The
lain blue percale skirt has three scanti-
Y gathered ruffles bound with cardinal
ed. In the same fashion is a pOlOnaise
f wide blue and cream stripes, to which
iagonal lines are added, solid blue
order edges the Pelonaise, and the
ounces of the dark blue skirt are bound
18th pale blue. The collar is standing
ebind, and the deep points turned over
4 front have the corners rounded.
The basques and overskirts are of sim
lie shape. The basque is longer in front
nd back than on the hips, and is very
Ugh about the neck. The Overskirt is
,ng and straight in front, and shorter
ehind. The striped and cretOnne per-
ales are pretty for these, and are trim
led with pleatings or gathered ruffies of
olOr, headed with wide white Smyrna
ICE or English embroidery on white
luslin. Down the front and on the sides
re both made of two materials used on
ne dress.-HdTper's BGzar.