New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-02-27
Fashion Notes.
Harper's Bazaar.
SPRING GOODS.

SPRING GOODS.
The earliest importations of spring goods
nave been received, and, as we announced
last week, the rough-threaded effects popu-
larry known during the winter are repeated
in materials for spring and summer dresses.
The taste for grave colors, such as gray and
brown, seems to have died out, as these
colors are found only in the beiges that are
made of the natural color of the fleece of
which they are woven. Ecru tints are not
so generally seen as they formerly we're, yet
they have not disappeared: they form oc-
casionally the background for displaying
brilliant colors, and the cream, ivory, tilleul,
old gold and mandarin yellow combine with
other snowy hues in the mingled designs of
the new fabrics. Black is seen in abundance
as solid color, as a background for high
-colors, and most frequently in new combina-
tons with white and gray that are very
effective, and cannot fail to revive the taste
for these colors. The moss green shades
and dark myrtle green are abundantly used
again, and, indeed, find their way into almost
every mixture of colors. India red--a dull
dark shade-a dark indigo blue enter into
number of the combinations There is also
a great deal of ivory white mixed with the
darkest green and deep tints of other colors;
this ivory tint without yellowish hues, it is
said will be more stylish than the deeper
cream and tilleul shades. The colors of
India shawls and of Persian rugs, with some
thing of their irregular underlined patterns,
will be found in the sheerest fabrics for sum-
mer dresses.
GRENADINES.
The fancy for rough threaded materials
reaches it's height in the new grenadines, as
these knotted, twisted, thickened threads are
seen on the grenadines OF every design-in
the Mexicaine squares, on the plain canvas
meshes, in brocades, in stripes, and in
plaids. There are many black grenadines
with armure grounds and with crape-Gke
effects, but those with the bourette patterns
are most largely imported. Some of these
are knotted in damasse patterns of cord-Gke
threads that make the whole fabric look like
rich passementerie. Others have Mexicaine
open squres with finer threads woven in the
open spaces to give the grenadine greater
frmness, so that it will not fray, and these
support little knobs and b01lcle twists Of
sillken threads, OF else plush-like spots or
very coarse threads. The striped grenadines
have first a moss stripe, then stripe Of
open lace-like figures. The brocaded de-
signs are small, in diamond or lozenge
shape, or else in flower sprays. The colored
grenadines show all the rich India colors as
quantity combined as those already described
for wooden goods. It is scarcely possible to
find any of single colors, but there are to be
later importations of the roughthreaded
grenadines in dark myrtle green, indigo,
blue, moss, seal brown and steel gray.
These will be made up, as the Mexicaines of
last year were over silks of the same
shade. A special novelty is black grenadine
ldn9nee, with fattened threads of metal
threads, silver, steel blue, tinsel red, and
pearly white. Madame Raymond speaks of
similar fabrics, with trimmings to cores
pond, among Partisan novelties.
CAsHMEREs
Cashmeres are staple goods, and are large
ly imported. They come in the stylish dark
oolors, and in pale tints for children's dress
es. There are also many armure and basket
woven goods made of the finest Cashmere
woods; the quadrille and honey-comb cloths
are also among these.
WASH GOODS.
Soft finished percales, cambrics, and toalt
a. AZsace cannot have raised rough threads
as their surfaces are necessarily smooth, but
they are printed in precisely the same COR
geous India colors seen in richer fabrics, anC
the designs aim to represent the gnarls, rings
and irregular threads also. Occasionally
some of these designs develop stripes ane
cross bars, but they are more often merely
the mixed bourette figures: there are few
with white grounds, but the majority have
dark blue, seal brown, or black background
nearly hidden by the gay colors thrown upo1
them. There are some cool, gray grounds
and many of the clean looking ilacs tina
washes so well. These are usually accom-
panied by percaleyof plain, solid color ik1
the groundwork, to serve as a foundation TO
the dress, while the gayer stuff is for tn
over-dress. Bordered percales are largel,
imported; some Of these are gay bourett
figured borders, with plain percale for tn
body of the fabric, while others are just tn
reverse plain border to figured percale
There are also the tiny square dots OF point
for children's dresses, and some have grant
effects in gray grounds, with bars or dashe
of blue and of rose.
Organdies and lawns will be greatly worn
They have plain tinted grounds, with boz
ders of flowers, fern leaves, holly, daisies
and grasses that look as if painted by hand
The grounds are ecru, blue, or lilac, or els
solid pink with cream colored flowers, o
turquoise blue strewn with white daisies
Others Of sulpher-c color, with plantain leave
of the same shade, or violets on lilac grounds