River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-04-10
FASHIONS Spring Novelties.

Position plaits and fan trimmings in
the back Of basques are revived.
The turban is the fashionable cap fol
young ladies and young married women
The panier scarf draperies of Paris.
made dresses are stiffened with crinoline.
Panier scarfs and drapelies appear ON
all Paris dresses brought over this
spring.
Caps made of silk handkerchiefs, in
turban or Normandy form, are much
worn.
Bandana and gay plaid handkerchief
are made up into dresses for misses and
little girls.
Shades of yellow, from pale straw or
corn, to deep tan and old gold, are very
fashionable.
Silk handkerchiefs in Oriental designs
aud coloIs are preferred for dressy break
fast CAPS.
Rhine pebble buttons look like dia-
Inonds at night. The price varies from
70 cents dozen up.
Very large flowers, especially roses and
Chrysanthemums, are used ID bonnet
decorations.
Scarfs Of fine net, edged with Breton
lace, are as often wOrn for bonnet strings
as for neckties.
The marked features in the new over
skirts are the shirred fronts and boutfant
back draperies.
French bunting, fine, light wool
goods, is the material in use for spring
and summer half-mourning costumes.
A Oil ed or silvered WOO len horseshoe,
tied to a small easel with pink, blue, or
red ribbon, is the fancy what-not orna-
ment of the moment.
French chips are brought out in shades
of color to match costumes, such as pale
blue, dark blue, tan, chamois, gray, belge,
brovn an dark green.
Bouffant draperies, whether on the hips
or back, are placed higher and higher,
the fullness more often being placed just
below the waist line than lower down on
the skirt.
Diamond ribbon collar necklaces are
the fashion of the passing moment, set in
pave style, and with clasps that make
them available either for pair of brace
lets or for necklace.
The novelty in spring bonnets is of soft
chip, or Tuscan straw, with large brIm
Of the same dimensions all around; this
brim the milliners indent 10 suit the face
of the wearer.
A new fancy that will probably "take,"
IS TO face the skirts of dressY costumes
with red silk, under which the lace bala-
yeuse is basted, making a very pretty ana
striking dress effect.
The newest white lawn and cambria
waists have the fronts in icLu style, made
with a separate piece in six plsits on each
side, sewed in the shoulder seam, and
tapering to the waist.
COTTON FABRICS.
Among the newest fabrics displayed to
be worn when summer days are long, are
cotton goods of the quaintest styles called
mummy-cloth, heretofore used only tor
tides and rugs. The colors are extreme
ly delicate and faded, rs pale blue with
a bronze stripe; again, stripe formed
altogether of clusters of fade pink flowers
and olive foliage. Yet another style has
a stripe of ecru and sprays of pale laven-
der blossoms, and there are others of
faint olive grounds with wandering May
flowers and apple blossoms. These faded
tints are guaranteed to fade no more, and
nummV-cloth short dresses, fascinating
throu.. :heir novelty, Will have popu-
lar summer existence. 1t is one yard
wide, ana fourteen yards are necessary
for short dress. Other new cotton
goods are pretty armuy with white and
creamy grounds; over these carelessiy
stray rose vines, pale vIOlets, or a bunch
If forget-me-nots. C0teline IS also new,
woven in lcngthwise cords or reps, thin
ner than calico, with ground of cream,
white, or pale olive, strewn with little
Dolly Warden bouquets Of bright bios
SONS, or stripes of dragon blue contrasted
with faint bronze green. satin and toIl-
ard cambrics show dainty chintL de
signs.