Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-20
FASHION SPARKLES.

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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 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 frst-class stores.
Large, loose waves of hair are now more
fashionable than crimps or frizzes.
Milliners are making very pretty
breakfast caps of wash blonde for elderly
ladies.
Dragon A;es, bees, beetles in silver, set
with Rhine crystals, is a favorite bonnet
| ornament.
The windows of our dry-goods stores
and milliners, are radiant with beautiful
new spring goods.
Old gold forms stylish combination
in many of the mixed suitings, showing
garnet and blue-gree dyes.
Lace jabots are very fashionable, and
scarfs are once more sough bit after in the
beau monde of mode dressing.
s,.Some of the short dresses made for
garden, lawn, archery AID croquet par
ties, are excessively gay and picturesque.
It is much more fashionable now than
in the winter for the bonnet or hat to
match the costume in color and shade.
Most of the milliners had their ssspring
opening" during the past week, and
made unusally fine display of the new
style of bonnets and hats.
Basques, for street wear, and worn in
dependent of the costume, are made of
cloaking- 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
laces, both black and white, used in
millinery and dress CONNECTIONS.
| In full evening dresses, there is not so
much tendency to strong contrasts in the
color of the different materials used as
in those intended for afternoon. reception,
dinner and carriage dresses.
Lace and feather trimmings and guam
titles of artificial flowers are seen on the
dressiest evening toilets, and paniers or
draperies to produce panier effects appear
on nearly all dresses not intended for
street wear.
Llama suitings are sure to give salts
faction to those ladies who carry slender
ly-flled purses. This sytle of fabric may
be had 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
~ combined with old gold or canary col
or; with the last it appears in combina-
ton with beige or ecru.
As the season advances the inclination
for fancy marabout 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 all
sorts of dresses. These bows are com
posed of fancy ribbons. Some show odd
designs, such as lizards, flies, bees, waspk
and 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 grea,
sway. The styles are numerous. The
novel barrel shaped buttons will certainly
find favor. Hand painted buttons come
in all 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 NOR
than suggestion of comming styles
Most of the new hats have wide brims
faced with velvet, satin or shirrings o
silk. The trimmings are long plumes
flowers, loops of ribbons and ornament
in gold or crystal, Brazilian beetles AM
other glittering insects. Rustic straw
for travelling and ordinary wear ar
trimmed with gay ribbons black ribbol
and gay ornaments, or bright field flowers
Dressy hats are of light shapes of sati
OF white chip trimmed with black sati
and black lace threaded With gold; il
ornaments are much worn, and there al
broad net balloons, worked with jet bead
for facing the brims of hats, to CO.
respond with jet ornaments on til
lcrOWns.