The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-16
FASHION NOTES.

Crepe roses are extremely fashionable.
Black dresses are not popular for evening
wear.
Rich silk and wool fabrics DISPLAY bright
combinations of colOrs.
Stripes appear to be the leading feature
in new spring materials.
Belgian straw bonrets, in new shell braid.
are in the list of novelties.
Mixtures of dazzling tints are lavishly ex-
hibited at all our first class stores.
Large, loose waves of hair are now more
fashionable than crlmps or hizzes.
The prices of fine goods are much more
moderate than those of last ssaaon.
Milliners are making very pretty breakfast
caps OF wash blonde for elderly ladies.
Dragon flies, bees and beetles in silver, set
with Rhine crystals, Is fayorIte bonnet or
nament.
The windows of our dry goods stores and
milliners are radiant with beautiful new
spring goods.
Old gold forms a stylish combination in
many of the mixed suitings showing garnet
and blue-green dyes.
Some of.the short dresses made for garden
lawn, archery and croquet parties, are ex-
eess1vely gay and picturesque.
1t is much more fashionable now than in
the winter for the bonnet or hat to match
the costume in color and shade.
Most of the milliners had their "spring
openings" during the past week, and made
unusually fine displays of the new style of
bonnets and hats.
Basques, for street wear, and worn indie
pendent of the costume, are made of cloak
ing cloth, a new fabric-ine, and coming
chiefly in black and dark colors.
The noticeable features in the openings of
this spring are the profusion of Breton laces,
both black and white, used in decorating
both millinery and dress CONNECTIONS.
In full evening dresses there is not so
much tendency to strong contrasts in the
colors of the different materials used as in
those intended for afternoon, reception, din
ner and carriage dresses.
Lace apd feather trimmings and quantities
of artificial flowers are seen on the dressiest
evening toilets, and paniers, or draperies to
produce panIer effects, appear on nearly all
dresses not intended for street wear.
Gendarme blue is a favor1te color, both in
reception or dinner and short street cos
tumes. With the first it is most frequently
combined with old gold or canary color;
with the last it appears in combination with
beige or ecru.
As the season advances the inclination for
fancy marabout feathers and ostrich tips is
developed, and feathers. flowers, lace, rib
bon and silks are all frequently seen on the
same bonnet, with ornaments of steel, silver,
gold and crystal in new and beautiful form.
Fashion favors ribbon garniture on all
sorts OF dresses. These bows are composed
of fancy ribbons. Some show odd designs,
such as lizards, flies, bees, wasps and other
insects; also flowers and small musical IN
struments- These surprising patterns are
often wrought in gold and silver on bril-
Hantly colored grounds.
A pretty Easter hat for a young lady is of
cream colored chip, with square crown and
truncated brim, quite wide; the brim is faced
with sulphur hued satin; the outer edge is
shirred; across the crown runs q band of
blush-pink roses, meeting on the left side q
bunch of ostrich tips, white near the center
of the stem, while the extreme ends of the
trembling tendriis are touched with pearl
disposed drapery OF India gauze and
Persian ribbon.
The openings at our fashionable establish
ments during the past few days have been
attended by crowds of the bon ton people.
In dress goods the styles displayed are of all
the shades of precious stones. In the cos
tune departments all the desirable and ele-
CANT modes introduced this season are ex-
hibited. Novelties in gloves, laces, parasols
and all kinds of trimmings are also shown.
In the millinery establishments the cha
peaus are gems of perfection and artistic
head gear. The exhibition of India camels
hair shawls at ons house drew host of adj
mIring inspectors. The ladies are never so
happy as when attending these Openings"
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