Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-03-29

coLoRs. FABRICS, SUITS AND BoNSErs FOL
SPRING.

Spring Fashions.
CoLoRs. FABRICS, SUITS AND BoNSETs FOL
SPRING.
Jennie June in Albany Evening Journal
If ladies generally do not for this Spring
at least adopt q convenient walking dress, II
will not be the fault of those who try to maxi
fashion. All the en- uoyage ordered recently
are made short. with killed skirts and double
silk pipings, and ornamental buttons. and
there is q prospect that the short dress, or a'
least dress that will clear the ground. will
be largely adopted for street travelling and
serviceable wear. II il 10 be devoutly hoped
that q majority of the Intelligent women in
the country will see the Importance OF this
endeavor, and second it by as rapid an adop-
tion as possible of the short costume.
SPRING MATERIALS.
The new Spring materials have made their
| appearance in great variety and are very
pretty, sensible and economical There is
| nothing high in color, large in pattern. or
| fimsy of texture. at present. For early
| Spring wear, there are the mixed serges, in
shades Of brown or wood color. dark grey.
bismuth, and chocolate. There are, also, the
soft oamel's hair cloths, which have largely
taken the place of cashmeres for outdoor
costumes, and Q new Summer bourette. which,
though all wool. is of light texture, pretty
knotted in Indian colors, and put at very
moderate price, only fifty cents per yard
There are, also. many new prints, in mixed
shades of fawn. gray, brown and wood color,
with borders two and threo inches wide
which serve as q flat trimming for the suit,
cotton goods being now quite as largely used
for Summer suits az silk or WOODEN fabrics.
Charming new designs in csmbrics have
very dark grounds. covered with very mi
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white. These cambrics may be made up in
the same way as the mixed serges, or they
may be used to compose the double skirt and
square yoke blouse waist" which promises
to be very fashionable during the present
season.
The new linens cannot be said TO have
made their appearance. but there are the
delicate linen lawns which make such lovely
Summer morning dresses. and SO cool and
serviceable for the wear of children and
young girls. are to be obtained in broken
little bars upon white grounds. for twenty
five cents per yard. and the dark. plain, un
bleachsd linen for ulsters blouse aprons and
busters for twenty-five.
Silk for Summer wear is now quite unneces-
sary excepting to make display at fashion
able water place. The exquisitely finished
cambrics and percalss. the pretty ginghams
and more substantial cheviots, the linens re-
producing all the finest damasked effects,
furnish abundant opportunity for selection
sufficient TO crafty the most refined taste.
1t is hardly time as yet for the very rich
novelties in Summer fabric to make their ap-
pearance. and it may be that our merchants
will learn q lesson from last year and not fill
their shelves with costly stuffs which have to
be laid over and reduced more than half in
price. One of the novelties of last season.
q. A., ral av,1
lowered designs. sold rs high as nine dollars
per yard, and in black that price is still asked
for it.
In the cloth shades, however, navy blue,
brown and myrtle green. the price has been
reduced to four and half and five ; and the
question is whether the profit upon the novel
ty in fabric permits Of the reduction Of fifty
per cent without loss. II so. the inference
ID clear that it is not wise to purchase q nov-
city. Plain and what are technically called
Summer silks. are lower this season than
they have been for many years. Hair striped
silks can be purchased from siYty-five to
eighty-ive cents per yard and very good.
though not heavy, plain silks in all fashiona-
BILE shades ut from ono dollar to one dollar
twenty-five per yard. These afford q very
lady-like church and visiting suits, OF a very
moderate price.
THE BoSsErs
Bonnets have not increased in size, nor
very much changed their shape. There is
only still more manifest tendency towards
tie cottage" and those shapes which fit |
close to the head and frame the face One is |
a cottage" bonnet of soft chip. trimmed |
with narrow. thick. white satin ribbon, black |
lace and very pale pink roses, crushed and |
shaded. A black chip, on the contrary. dis |
played twist Of black chenille gauze, de- |
coration of Marshal Mel roses and clasps of |
Roman pearls. to which was added an inte- |
rior trimming of shaded satin ribboL and |
The ribbons and flowers have a |
great deal of character this season the for |
mer ara thick. not wide, but ranging from
one to three inches in width and either hav-
ing surface of satin ON both sides or one
side satin and the other more-antigue.
Besides being reversible the different sides
show different colors and shades, wood brown
with blue, fawn with poppy red. or three
shades of gray with three shades Of red, and
three shades Of bismuth with three shades of
blue or three shades of darker brown with
.hree shades of bronze green. A great deal
If use is made of thick satin ribbon only
lalf an inch wide in black and white or black
IN one side and white on the other
This is made into fat loops and ends which
ire used very effectively at the back of the
srown, in front and where larger ornaments
would be conspicuous, and out of place.
side bows are very much used for ornament
ng the front of the Princesse polonaise,
which, made entirely without other trimming
Except two thick pipings containing the col
,rs of the material, which are those of rib
BON also, are one of the features of the sea-
on. The flowers are beautiful and aston
shingly faithful in every detail Of form,
hough, of course. not confined to natural
olors. They still retain the wreath-like form,
IT rather they are mounted in long rather
vide bands with pendants. buds. and grass.
IT mossy fringe. which almost conceals the
rim, and leaves the crown alone visible.
A bit Of this fringe and fowery band is
Ised instead of lace TO form n curtain, or it
3 sometimes placed over lace. The flower
'onnets have had great success and will
doubtless be retained during the Summer.
hes are very pretty for evening wear at the
heatre and in the stalls of the opera, and
ressy any time. as the absence Of crown ad-
nits of an elaborate coiffeure and the passage
f the silver or wrought ivory comb which is
low so indispensable feature of hair dress
ng.
CoLoRs.
The new Spring colors in design show
MIXTURE of all quiet, neutral shades. one
lending IN with another SO closely that il is
impossible to tell where one ends and anoth-
T begins. This is true of flowers and all
creations as well Us dress mate
ials. the quiet shades forming the body part
f the costume. the same blending in high
olor its relief or ornament The founda-
ion color is bismuth brown, the softer
hades Of fawn and dull wood color before
hey become gray and the green's tinctured
nth bronze and brown The blending of
olor in flowers in leaves and ribbons and in
he richer fabrics is wonderful.
ORNAMENTS.
The Spring jackets will have beaded clasps.
n some instances three being used, one be-
)w the other. The loose ''zouave" jacket
eeper by several inches than when formerly
'ore, with white embroidered vest, will reap
ear with two beaded clasps on each sleeve
nd three on the front. The sleeves are cut
pen above the hand and joined again by tho
ouble clasp.
The cloak clasps used for the lighter kind
silk cloaks. which is retained until late
pring or early Summer, in these latitudes
re very much handsomer than last year,
hough some were very elegant, and this sea-
on are often seen double Our first Jewell
RS have them in gold and what it is now GUS
omary to call ''sterling silver"
hHohhti ihhSy VI uiOmtut ls 70 htthCu |
clasp to the cloth and woollen dresses now
o fashionable, this clasp taking the place of
broach. and as the mode Of costly and su-
erb clasps belonged to our great grand
lothers some very beautiful ones are seen,
ut the patterns of the new ones especially
be oxydised. are extremely elegant Tigers
nd lions claws US we'll az shells and grotes-
ue heads. This is one Of the fashions that
ndure beyond the season.
A strong desire is growing up which has
OF yet eliminated into the passion or fash
IN it may become. Of rare stones whose
eauty is OF interior or mystic character. To
his class belong the cats-eye. the moonstone.
he ehalcedony. which is specie of catseye,
7 at least possessed Of similar properties
hese stones are not attractive until init
late acquaintance reveals their singular re-
emblances and their changing or hidden
eauty. But their chief beauty after their
arity is this. that they cannot be counter
.ited. and that they yield such precious re-
ults to the apidarys q art