Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-04
Spring Styles.

A Paris letter has the following: Isee
nothing more delightfully."- redolent of
spring than the new stuffs for dresses ex-
hibited in the windows of the great dry
goods stores which we here call magasins
de noveautes. Brocades will be all the
fashion tor the rest of this year. Lyons
has surpassed herself in turning out gar
den dresses, term which does not mean
dresses suitable to garden wear but of
style that reminds the spectator of a par
terre of flowers. The French name for
them is 1obes jardiniers. They are &C.
ologues in silk and satin; slid ife studies,
gay, dainty, and delicate as Redoutes
pictures, and brought-which it virtue
the within the reach of very sleu-
der purses. Lyons has surpassed herself
in creating these stuffs which are not so
much revival as an adaptation of the
Ponpadour brocades. Used as trimming
for soft English cashmeres, they are
charming, and they also suit the richest
satins when made into waistcoats, scarfs
and paniers. Those bright flowers were
sown in an inclement winter of manufac-
turing distress. Supple English wooden
and cotton cloths were found to drape the
human figure better than the silks, which
are staple manufacture OF France. The
work people raised a loud cry of distress.
Mill fires went out. Charity balls we've
given at which attempts were made to
stimulate Lyons trade. Madame MacMa-
hon and her lady friends wore silk morn
ing, noon and night. The Countesse de
Paris went to hunt in silk.n riding
habit, and the Duchesse de Charities in
one of dark green satin turned up with
velvet. Still fashion perseyered in favor
ing Oxfords and merinos. It had been
found that the silk manufacturers loaded
their stuffs with pigments which gave them
weight and gloss, but deprived them of
those lasting qualities which the thrifty
French bourgeois naturally value. They
cut, they became greasy, the dust sank in
to them, causing stains which could not
be brushed of, and there was little salts
faction and no wear TO speak of in gown
the price of which would have suffi ED to
buy patch of ground in the environs of
Paris large enough for villa to stand on.
Stimulated by brisk competition, and a
feeling that great market was passing
away, new leaf was turned over at Lv-
oIs. Fresh sources of supply for raw
material have been sought in the East and
found, and the manner of treating silk
greatly modified. The Oriental stuffs ex
hibited at the Champ de Mars were reve-
lation to the manufacturers who now
turn out at the low retail price of eighty
two cents yard, rich lustrous and
supple stuff which can be twisted into
any shape without becoming creased OF
broken, and Grapes the lady wearing it
It is called Bengarine. Some Japanese
work-men have taught Lyonnese artisans
how tc prepare It, Another light, elegant
stuff is called la Louisine, after the daugh
ter of its inventor. 1t initiates the finest
. kind of Oxford cloth, is very tough, very
flexible and has the double advantage
afforded by the legendary rough-and
t ready garments of Brian OHM in being
swarm and COOL"
t I have b1ocade before ne purchased
7 by friend at La Vile de Paris at til,
cost of 81 4S per yard. It belongs to tn
l jardiniere class of goods. Taking int
4 consideration its extreme novelty, th
$ beauty of that pattern, and though ther
q is little wool concealed under the tin
boquets of field flowers and in the blacl
n ground on which they are woven, il
II cheapness is remarkable.