River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-03-27
Fashions FancIeS.

Persian canvas is new material for
| chair backs.
Satsuma is the name of new shade in
| cream white.
Very little iewelry will be worn on the
street this spring.
One large bow and strings constitute
al Alsatian bonnet.
Twilled satin foulards are among the
| new suit materials.
The new satin and lace stripes in even
ing silks look rich.
Princess pine and tree myrtle are the
choicest evergreens.
Old gold gauze and satin is brilliant
stuff for summer toilets.
In spring woolens are seen the Chudhah
stripes or herring bones.
New evening dresses are made with
Marie Antoinette paniers.
Bretelles are again worn, and are pro-
nouDced unusually becoming.
A shirring of India muslin will bind
the edge of new chip bonnets.
Slippers of satin, embroidered with
seed pearls, are worn by brides.
improved texture this spring.
A new camel's fabric, as thin as bunt-
ing, will be worn this summer.
Chinese blues and Chinese greens are
found among the new coloIs.
Dark navy blue and brown are the
most fashionable colors for cambrics.
Some of the fancy feathers made from
humming- birds plumage cost $40.
Outside jackets for suits are still made
cutaway, with velvet or silk vests,
Ribbons for strings are wider than
formerly, measuring from to 4 inches.
The fashionable color for children's
dresses and wraps is robins egg blue.
All costumes are de rigueur contribu-
tons of several materials this season.
Colors from the humming- birds breasts
are woven into spring bonnet feathers.
An odd bit of jeweUy represents two
monkeys squabbling over pearl nut.
Jeanne d. Arc cuirass corsages and
paniers are coming in vogue for street
wear.
Al costumes az de q'igelter combina-
tons of several materials this season.
The bonGets of this spring are larger
than those of the passing season, the
brIms flare; but there are no tace trim
mings, the hair being dressed full to sup
ply the deficiency.
French, English and American dress
goods, whether wool or cotton, show tex
lures with double twilled or satteen,
mummy, armure, and coteline effects
this spring.
Barge de Virginia, in light and dark
tintings, and forty-eight and twenty eight |
inches In width The quality isextreme- |
lv fine and soft and designed Tor entire
suits.
Gold ornaments for bonnets are made |
to open like bracelets, and then clasp |
over the wide lace or ribbon strings, So |
that these seem to be run through them.
Mummy cloth is so named from its
Grape like texture. resembling the cotton
cloths in which ancient Egyptian num-
mics are found.
Lace gloves with fingers as well as with
long wrists will be worn in the spring, as
well as lace mitts and half-fngered lace
gloves.
The new kid gloves are welted at the
top with three wells, half an inch apart,
and to this lace frill at the top is fire.
quentlY added.
The gloves of the coming season en-
brace wider variety in Isle thread, kid
and lace mitts than ever before seen In
one season
PekiLe foulards, with Sevres porcelain
designs in rcnning patterns over them,
are sen on the silk counters this spring.
The days of gorgeously- bound Christ
mas annuals are past. The Fountain OF
Pearls Book Of Beauty" ami other
highly aoloTed and deliberately -iliustrated
that lay upon our grandparents
center tables are no more. In their place
we have elegantly gotten-up volumes,
whose contents We may peruse with profit
y well IS pleasure. Il