Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-04-10
FASHIONS Spring Novelties.

the back of basques are revived.
The turban is the fashionable cap for
young ladies and young married women.
The panier scarf draperies of Paris
made dresses are stiffened with crinoline.
Panier scarfs and draperies 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
and 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
chryssnthemums, 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 SHRED fronts and bouffant
back draperies.
French bunting, fine, light wool
goods, is The material in use for spring
and summer half-mourning costumes.
A gilded or silvered wooden horseshoe,
tied to 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.
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 ''take,"
is to face the skirts of dressy costumes
with red silk, under which the lace bala-
yeuse is basted, making very pretI y and
striking dress effect.
The newest white lawn and cambria
waists have the fronts in ficLu 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 ouaintest styles called
mummy cloth, heretofore used only for
tides and rugs. The colors are extreme
ly delicate and faded, as pale blue with
bronze stripe; again, a stripe formed
altogether Of clusters of fade pink flowers
and olive foliage. Yet another style has
= 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. 1t is one yard
wide, and fourteen yards are necessary
for short dress. Other new cotton
goods are pretty armurcs with white and
creamy grounds; over these carelessly
stray rose-vines, pale violets, or bunch
OF forget-me-nots. 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.