Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-10
Fashions Spring Novelties.

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all Paris dresses brought over this
spring.
Caps made of silk handkerchiets, in
turban or Normandy form, are much
worn.
Bandana and gay plaid handkerchiefs
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 colors are preferred for dressy break
fast caps.
Rhine pebble buttons look like dia-
monds at night. The price varies from
rs cents dozen up.
Very large flowers, especially roses and
chrysanthemums, are used in 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 bouffant
back draperies.
French bunting, fine, light wool
goods, is the material in use for spring
and summer halt-mOurnlng costumes.
A gil led or silvered wooden 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, beige,
brown 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 TO suit the face
of the wearer.
A new fancy that will probably stake"
is to face the skirts of dressy costumes
with red silk, under which the lace bala-
yeuse is basted, making very pretty and
striking dress effect.
The newest white lawn and cambria
waists have the fronts in fcl u style, made
with separate piece in six plaits 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 auaintest styles called
mummy cloth, heretofore used only for
tides and rugs. The colors are extreme
~ delicate and faded, as pale blue with
bronze stripe; again, stripe formed
altogether Of clusters of fade pink flowers
and olive foliage. Yet another style has
81 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
mummy cloth short dresses, fascinating
through their novelty, will have popu-
lar summer existence. It is one yard
wide, and fourteen yards are necessary
for short dress. Other new cotton
goods are pretty armure with white and
creamy grounds; over these carelessly
stray rose-vines, pale violets, or bunch
OF torget-me-n ots. Coteline is also new,
woven in lengthwise 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 foul
ard cambrics show dainty chintz de-
signs.
There is no doubt, says an eastern
fashion authority, that the present popu-
larity of brocades, used in combination
with plain silk or velvet, has affected the
sale and manufacture of silks proper
Nevertheless, the latter class of fabrics
are always in demand. American bro
cades are in high favor, the supply fel
spring being more varied and beautiful
than ever. The new designs show ex
exceedingly handsome figures. The
spring styles are introduced in all the
fashionable colors, including several va
f rieties in garnet shades. navy blue, drab
wood color, and s'livery' color, which hal
b?eh so popular during the winter, anc
when combined with velvet matching il
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at low price, as the brocade can b.
had at $3.50 per yard. All silks and
satins of American manufacture will ais,
! be popular dress materials this season
They are shown in variety of colors 70
= day and evening wear, and those in darl
shades, sprinkled with white "polk
8 dots" are very beautiful. They are 0
q soft texture, drape gracefully, do nc
''crumble" easily and are twcnty-tw
! inches vide The price is about 81 5
per yard. There is variety of shades i
blue, and the black, with white "polk
dot" combined with black velvet, forms
g stylish costume =. Summer silks ar
e clouded over by china patterns, whic
it show among small broken checks an
,, stripes. while; others in small quie
y plaids are loosely woven. whence til
IT name, serge quardr1llee, which has bee
is applied to them. Pekin stripes al
d shown in silks of one color. the satin an
Is silk stripe alternating. Guipure is
If name given a class of open-work fabric
e of silken texture. Effective silks eiths
G white or in pale shades, are wrought
n jardiniere stripes of medium width.
n SHORT DRESSES IN ENGLAND.
g. English ladies are just beginning |
n adopt the fashion that has been in vogu
h in Paris for some time, of wearing sho
Is skirts for ballroom toilets. Now tn,
y quadrilles, and all square dances, al
se voted ''slow" and tabooed, nothing