The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-04-03

are novel.
Canoes are decidedly fashionable
in iewelry.
Cardinal capes are among the new
spring wraps.
Silver and mouse gray shades pre-
vail in kid gloves.
Pretty new fans are of rustic bam-
boo, hand painted.
Black ard beige colors will be
much used in parasols.
Butterflies are among the new
ornaments for spring hats.
The street hat should be dark and
to certain extent plain,
Dresses are trimmed of double pip
ings of contrasting colors.
Lovely spring prints are selling as
low as four cents per yard.
Plated skirts have deep yokes,
which give u splendid appearance.
Basques, entirely covered with
flowers, are in vogue for evening
toilets.
Cream color and greenish.gray are
the popular tints in linen dress goods.
All straw hats and bonnets are
principally restricted to the dark
colors.
Byron collars and cuffs in guipure
lace, for the ladies, are among the
latest.
Yokes and plated and gathered
waists are very becoming to tall,
slender women.
The old color, "ashes of roses" SO
long out of fashion, will be revived
this summer.
Handsome evening dresses are
made of plush grenadine in solid col
ors of light hueS.
One of the novelties for summer
dresses is crape-batiste-a thin linen
fabric crinkled like Grape.
Colored embroidorieS appear on
many of the handsomest sets Of wide
collars and deep cuffs.
scarfs of crepe lisse, with the ends
embroidered in silks or Oriental col.
ors, are pretty novelties.
Flowers should be worn mostly on
the left side of ball dresses, as the
escort walks on the right.
There is a decided change in the
shape of the parasols this season
from those Of last summer,
The shaded blue Madras ginghams
are very popular, but great care is
required III washing them.
Very fine colored embroideries are
seen on many of the newest styles
of pocket. handkerchiefs.
Many of our store-windows, with
their beautiful spring goods and
novelties, are as pretty as pictures.
Organizes, with plain tinted
grounds and flowers, and borders of
fern leaves, grasses, &c, will be much
worn.
The jauntiest of spring wraps is a
coat that fastons over the chest with
one button and shows waistcoat
below.
1t is above all things out of place
to wears gay bonnet in the street,
or one strikingly in contrast with
the rest Of the toilet.
Dressy costumes for watering
places are made of damask silk of
light quality, combined with plain
silk Of a contrasting color.
1t will be fashionable to sew the
new style large collars and cuffs of
white lace on the dark silk dresses
that will be worn this summer.
Dull, unpublished ebony handles,
quite massive, with bar at the end,
or hook inluid with pearl or ivory,
are the most stylish for parasols,
Gold embroidery, in fringes, lace,
tassels, balloons, passemcntories, in
every thing, in fact, is worn in Paris,
both in the morning and evening,
The Scotch and Madras glnghams,
which make charmingly cool and
fresh-looking dresses, will be trim.
med in Russia laces in colors to
match the dress,
For school girls and blonde young
ladies, nayy-blue and white ging-
hams, made up with white vests,
and trimmed with Smyrna lace or
rullles of embroidery, will be popu.
| lar and fashionable.
Little Sixteen.