River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-04-24
FASHION SPARKLES.

Crepe roses are extremely fashionable
Black dresses are not popular for even
ing wear.
Stripes appear TO be the leading fea-
ture in new spring materials.
Rich silk and wool fabrics display
bright combinations of colors.
Belgian straw bonnets, in a new
she'll braid, are in the list of novelties.
The prices of fine goods are much
more moderate than those of last season.
Mixtures of dazzling tints are lavishly
exhibited at all our first class stores.
Large, loose waves of hair are now more
fashionable than crimrs or frizzes.
Milliners are making very pretty
breakfast caps of wash blonde for elderly
ladies.
The windows of our dry-goods stores
new spring goods.
Old gold forms a stylish combination
in many of the mixed suitings, showing
garnet and blue-green dyes.
Lace jabots are very fashionable, and
scarfs are once more sought after in the
beau monde Of mode dressing.
Some of the short dresses made for
garden, lawn, archery AID croquet par
ties, are excessively 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.
Bdsques, tor street wear, and worn in
dependent of the costume, are made of
ci0aking cloth, new fabric-fne, and
coming chiefly in black and dark col
ors.
The noticeable features in the openings
of this spring are the profusion of Breton
lacea, both black and white, used in
millinery and dress confections.
In FULL evening dresses, tn re is not so
much tendency to strong contrasts in the
colo: of the different materials used as
in those intended for afternoon. reception,
dinner and carriage dresses.
Lace aud feather trimmings and guam
titles of artificial flowers are seen on the
draperies to produce panier effects appear
On nearly all dresses not intended for
street wear.
Llama suitings are sure to give salts
action TO those ladies who carry slender
.y-tilled purses. This sytle of fabric may
be hal for eight cents per yard up; the
suitings marked at eighteen cents are
very fine and handsome.
Gendarme blue is favorite color both
in reception or dinner and short cos
tunes. With the first it is most frequent
ly combined with old gold or canary col
or; with the last il appears in combina-
ton with beige or ecru.
As the season advances the inclination
for fancy mar bout feathers and ostrich
tips is developed, and feathers, flowers,
lace, ribbon 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 ell
sorts of dresses. These bows are COM
posed of fancy ribbons. Some show odd
designs, such as lizards, flies, bees, wasps
ana other insects; also flowers and small
musical instruments. These surprising
patterns are often wrought in gold and
silver on brilliantly colored grounds.
Among the buttons fashion holds great
sway. The styles are numerous. The
novel barrel shaped buttons will certainly
find favor Hand painted buttons come
in sll sorts of colors; inlaid buttons, rep
resenting artistic patterns, there are birds,
! fishes, fowls and reptiles. The designs
| in flowers are too numerous to describe.
Spring bonnets are, as yet, hardly more
than suggestion of comming styles.
| Most of the new hats have wide brims,
faced with velvet, satin or shirrings Of
| silk The trimmings are long plumes,
flowers. loops of ribbons and ornaments
in gold or crystal, Brazilian beetles and
other glittering insects. Rustic straws
for travelling aud ordinary wear are
trimmed with gay ribbons black ribbon
and gay ornaments or bright field flowers.
Dressy hats are of light shapes of satin
or white chip trimmed with black satin
and black lace threaded with gold; jet
ornaments are much worn, and there are
broad net balloons, worked with jet beads
for facing the brims of hats, to cor
respond with jet ornaments on the
crowns.