River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-04-04
P.shions.

Satin is above every thing for trimming.
Sea-wred is much used for dress trim
mings.
Black lace points or shawls are no longer
worn.
Dress goods of all kinds will be cheap this
season.
Sacques in new light tints divide favor with
the dolmans.
The yoke of the kilt shirt should fit the
FPS like glove.
Golden brown-tinted hair is the fashion at
present in Paris.
Drab or mode shades are the fashionable
ones in kid gloves.
Velvet and fringe galloons are the latest
for dress trimming.
Very young girls viii wear Scotch plaids of
dark colors for spring.
Light drabs and stone colors are much
used for the short suits.
Bonnet coronets are very high, and turned
very far back at the sides.
Plush striped grenadine gauzes. are used
IN trimming spring bonnets.
The new dolmans in cream shades are
elegant, and are very handsome.
The new styles of dressing the hair are as
varied as the bonnets and hats.
Colored embroidery is appearing on the
broad cuffs and collars for spring wear.
Square necks, formed by long and high
shoulder-straps, are seen in opera toilets.
Elbow sleeves are still in favor for the
house, but light coat sleeves for the street.
Dolmans, French sacques and Carrick
capes will all be fashionable spring wraps.
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be trimmed with gay-colored embroidery.
Beautiful orangdies in exquisite designs
will be worn for evening dresses this sum-
mer.
Jewelry for the summer will be of ilgree
silver, sometimes gilded. 1t will be extreme
ly fashionable.
Chemise petticoats, combining both gar
ments IN one, are among the new things in
ladies' underwear.
The correct length for the kilt skirt allows
it to escape the sidewalk two and a half
inches all around.
Silks of light quality with raised figures
are offered for spring costumes, or as paris
of combination suits.
There is little doubt but that coronet
fronts will be the most popular for spring
and summer bonnets.
For early spring. fine black chip bonnets,
trimmed with narrow black satin ribbon and
lace, will be much worn.
Shoes are made with the uppers of the
same material as the dress. Nobby and
stylish with the xii skirt.
White goods in lrious materials will be
the prevailing style for evening toilets dur
ing the coming summer.
Bourette is term applied indefinitely this
season to all irregularly woven all wool and
cotton and wool dress goods.
Short walking suits for the street are
meeting with great favor. They consist of
short kilt skirt vest and cutaway coat.
Double-face satin ribbons about five inches
wide are used for ladies' and children's sash
es, instead of the very wide ones lately worn.
Chinese green. Mexique blue, Mandarin
yellow, orange, cardinal red, scarlet, crimson
and clear rose, are among the popular colors.
Ostrich tips, with marabout ends tipped
with pearl beads, and with the central stem
ornamented with tiny sea shells, are among
the novelties in millinery.
The new ornaments for bonnets are in the
shape of golden feathers, gold and silver
fligree flies, bees and beetles, with steel
points scattered over the wings and bodies
and forming the eyes.
| Ladies seem, sometimes, puzzled to know
/ how to dress when invited to an entertain
ment. If the invitation be printed or formal,
| full dress is almost always expected; if YER
bal, the demi-toilet is suitable.
The hair at present is dressed high on the
head, around Spanish comb, narrow in the
back of the head, and dropping low on the
nape of the neck-in short chatelaine and
one or two short curls, and banged and
waved on the forehead, or made to look more
natural than nature itself with Mercedes
coquetettie, which is an artificial banged and
curled front.