River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-04-17
New Choice Fashion Notes.
The coming bonnet is the gvpsy.

Shirred Innings for bonnet brims take
precedence of all others.
High fraizes and long jabots will be
the leading styles for neckwear this
spring.
French bunting takes precedence of all
other semi-diaphanous spring fabrics.
Black toilets and black lace bonnets
are the Juror of the moment inParis
For certain styles of beauty gay
Chinese silks and fou ards make lovely
morning robes.
New York milliners have shown more
colored than black or white bonnets this
spring.
'rhe latest novelties in shoes are the
Henri Trois sabots and the Catherine de
Medici solieurs.
Pretty stockings ana low shoes have
become too apparent fact as part of
young ladies' toilets.
Novelties in shoes have Louise Quinze
heels and many straps across the instep,
with bows and buckles.
Breton lace drapery scarfs Irvine all
around bonnet crowns, and then form the
strings of many bonnets.
All sorts of hats, bonnets, turbans and
caps are in vogue this spring for outdoor
as well as Indoor wear.
Many bonnets have the crowns entirely
covered with flowers sewn flat on the chip,
straw or foundation.
The new bright shade of crimson is
called "peony," and the shade of red in
crepe peoples is carmlne bruno.
The newest ornament for a bonnet
is shell of silver with pearl resting
in it, and bearded fringe of fne silver
beads hanging from the shell.
White and colored Canton Grape bon
nets, trimmed with flowers, feathers and
lace, appear at the openings among other
millinery novelties.
Broad -brimmed hats are more suitable
for our bright, warm American summers
than English round hats, and are mnch
more becoming.
Gypsy bonnets have large flowing
brims raised In front, tied down at the
sides, and falling on the neck, after be-
ing partially raised in the back.
Satteens and mummy cloth novelties
show dainty little flower and leaf bouquet
and vine patterns in jardiniere colors on
pure white grounds.
Quantities of cheap pinhead- checked
and hair lined striped summer silks are
selling at the moment for parts of suits
and also for entire costumes.
American women who are sensible as
well as tasteful avoid English styles of
half masculine Derby hats, manish,
listers, and jackets for street wear.
Spring wraps are of various kinds of
mantillas, nantes and dolman visites,
all having long ends in front, square or
pointed, but light Chuddah and India
shawls will probably be much worn.
The favorite flowers for lacking on
bonnet crowns are asters, marguerites,
pansies, and eglantine blooms, with the
yellow anthers showing plainly on the
delicate pink ground of the petals.
Pompadour gauzes with alternate lace
and satin stripes, with flower and vine
patterns over the same, made up in com
bination with plain silk and satin, make
very stylish summer evening dresses.
New opera fans are made in various
forms, but do not close. They are com
posed entirely of flowers and leaves, after
the favorite blossoms of the fair holder,
and are perfamed after natural models.
Two small red clay pipes, decorated
with flowers and notices, with the stems
tied in a cross with blue ribbon, is the
newest chandelier pendant in fashionable
houses. They call them ''peace pipes"
Dressy parasols for the country or sea-
shore are of ecru pongees, with spots,
rings, or diamond patterns of brown, red
or blue, or they are of plain ecru pongees
with bandana or Scotch plaid Innings, or
-colored Innings with white polka dots.
The newest white lawn and cambria
waists have the fronts in fichu style, made
with a separate piece in six plaits on
each side, sewed in the shoulder seams,
and tapering to the waist.
Evening stockings in the shades to
match the new fabrics are embroidered
between squares or lace figures set in
over the ins'eps and sometimes up the
sides.
The new Spanish scarfs and nantes
for spring and summer are both long and
large. They may oe worn at will all
over the head, as a drapery in the Span
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street wear.
The Dudley promenade costume has
special feature, which will prove very
convenient. The skirt clears the ground,
and the train, which is separated from
the skirt Just above tho revers with
which it is trimmed Is % be carried on
the arm, leaving bc.n hands at liberty,
so if our ladies will insist upon trained
street costumes, nothing so convenient
as this style can be suggested for their
benefit.
The ouaintest mixtures of color appear
in mummy cloth, as stripes OF yellow
green, pink, and white, all mingled to-
gether, and patterns resembling Satsuma
ware, with creamy grounds and small
flower designs in shades of brown, Sevres
blue and scarlet.
The fashion for flower bouquets is to
have garden posies with several oldfash-
Toned flowers in them; punches of thou
sand-ieaf roses, spray of migonette, a
pansy or two, a marigold or buttercup,
and few ferns are tied together and
used in bonnets or for waist bouquets.
Diamond ribbon collar necklaces are
tue IaSLlUu VI Tic passing ihOLhOhts sci AZ
paue style, and with clasps that make
them available either for pair of brace
lets or for necklace.
A new fancy that will probably "take"
is TO face the skirts of dressy costumes
with red silk, under which the lace
balayeuse is basted. making a very pretty
and striking dress effect.
The newest and most elegant umbrel-
las for all occasions are in very dark
wine colors, or gendarme blue, black or
| invisible green, and of the rich, soft, SER
viceable, twilled umbrella silk that is
both sun and shower proof.
All the accessories of the toilet, as all
the fabrics, seem to be perfection. The
exquisite shades of mastic, almond and
| cafe an lat are seen to the utmost adj
vantage in fine. soft. undrcssed kid, and
match the fine tints oi the lovely materials
which are used for spring suits and
costumes.