The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-04
The Spring Fashions,

they knock down her glass screens or
break her precious ars.--Appleton's Jour.
The Spring Fashions.
The new fringes most used for nantes
are called double fringes, as they have a
second row of fringe at the back, which
falls over the heading and entirely con-
ceals it. These are chosen in the sly. ,sh
grass fringes of tlattened threads, and
the whale-bone fringes with wider thread
or tapes also fattened. AS these are new,
they are expensive. Mourning fringe is
not plain as formerly; the newest has a
crimped fringe for background, upon
which are tied tassels of grass fringe;
other patterns are very handsome
crimped tape and grass with jet on the
heading and in the tassels. New passe-
menteries have open star-and-compass
patterns instead of leaves and vines.
There is less of the wide galloon used
now that Breton costumes have made it
so common. The preference instead is
for several rows of round, square, or
soutache braid, quite narrow, yet not so
narrow as that used for braiding pat
terms. This braid is placed in parallel
rows quite near together, and sometimes
touching, though this produces the effect
of single wide braid; gayer way for
youthful dresses is to put thread of gilt
or silver braid between the narrow black
braid. For berge-colored wooden dresses
darker brown braid is used alone, or else
!, oil ba f.,,
for bouret dresses are made of two or
three colors to match those in the dress,
and consist of tassels, crimped parts, flies
of silk tied on, and the mulberry or cat
erpillar designs. These are of silk for
silk bourets and damask silks, while
wooden fringes are made in similar colors
and designs for dresses entirely of wool.
Pink and rose tassels alternate with
beige-colored grass, or else beige is dark
brown, or white with blue, or red with
cream color. Amber beads, the paler
beige colored beads, and the Illuminated
rain bow beads enter into many rich
fringes and passementeries. The clair de
lune trimming has had its brief season of
favor, and now looks old-fashioned; the
other bead trimmings are very popular
at present, but they too will probably be
a transient fashion.
New suggestions are found in the
Paris bonnets brought out later in the
season. The handsomest chips and
straws have the inside of the front lined
with dark velvet or satin. and edged with
a single row of gold braid or else the new
rainbow braid that has tinsel threads of
many colors to match the rainbow beads;
they have no other face trimming. A
great many beige colored chip bonnets
are in the late importations. Some Of
these are trimmed throughout with the
same shade, having watered beige ribbon
strings, satin or gros grain loops, ostrich
tips, and darker brown velvet for a ban
deau or fillet in front and for facing the
brim and curtain. Other beige chips
have deep cardinal red trimmings mixed
with beige color, and for flowers wreath
of small! strawberries with brown foliage.
A new fancy in white chip bonnets is to
have at intervals rows of rainbow tinsel
braid. Some new chip bonnets are
merely brims and curtain bands without
crowns. The vacant space for the crown
is surrounded with wreath of flowers
that form a fringe, and this fringe fills
in the empty crown. Gilt rings, through
which the satin is passed aroud tie
crown, are On many new hats. The
large Alsacian bow is now made of mar
row double faced ribbon in many loops,
with several ends indented or notched.
Many pipings are on the edges of straw
bonnets; some have the piping folds al
ternating with gilt soutache. A double
bow of satin ribbon is set on straw cur
tuins, and covers them entirely. Many
rough straws or else figured satin stra"
bonnets are shown; some are all black;
some white, some beige-color, and many
have gilt braid introduced, or else white
lines are interviewer in the black. For
dress bonncts for summer, beige tulle is
embroidered by hand in colors, such as
olive, pale blue, or pink. Gilded Greek
filless are imported to put in the fronts
of bonnets. Breaches of dead gold are
the most successful ornaments. Thick
fringes of buds fall from under upturned
curtain bands; other bonnets have pleated
Grape lisse under the curtain. A large
gilt screw is an ornament Of questionable
taste seen on French bonnets. Less fruit
is worn than last season, though there
are some luscious looking berries cher
ries, and plums. A novelty is wreath
made of loops Of ribbon grass, in green
stripes and in maple rod, with many ends
Of the grass cut in trident forks. Sage
leaf wreaths have stylish shades of
green, and for color they are mixed with
scarlet poppies Many entire wreaths
are in beige shades; these appear well
when representing pine cones, burs,
tnistles and seed pods, but the " sere and
Yellow leaves are more especially popu-
lar; these are used on black and beige
colored bonnets. The olive shades Of
mignonette make it most popular flow
er. 1t is combined with Jacqueminot
roses and spikes of white ilacs.
For little girls hats the novelty is fine
Manila, with wreath of flowers paint
ed by hand on the soft brim. Wild
flowers, poppies, duets, and trailing ar
butus are artistically painted on these
pretty hats. Boyish-looking straw hats
with rolled brims and fiat crown, or else
round Derby crowns, are also shown for
young girls; besides these are the point
ed japanese crowns and the picturesque
Tyrolean, with the jaunty sailor hats
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