The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-24
Fer the Ladies to Read.


Narrow trains are DE RIGEUER.
Dolly Warden styles are revived.
New parasols are generally lined.
Round trains are generally preferred.
Club-handles for parasols are revived.
Grecian or bertha waists have revived.
Trains may be either rounded or square.
Short dresses for country yea have
paniers.
Short dresses for city wear do not have
paniers.
Every fashionable dress has satin for
a port of it.
Very low necks are again fashionable
for evening toilet.
Black Breton bids fair to take the place
of black French lace.
The newest wraps have paniers and
are bouffant in the back.
Some snowy parasols have the ribs
gilded, silvered or colored.
Black tulle wells, with tiny gold-thread
dots, are recent novelties.
Changeable and shot silks are seen
again on dry goods counters.
Silk handkerchief overdresses are worn
with plain foulard skirts.
japanese p%arasols come in new and inn
proved styles this spring.
The season for cotton satteens and
mummy cloths will soon be here.
Melted jet trimmings are much in vogue
for black spring wraps.
Worth uses shot silks in two colors for
some of his most effective costumes.
Some OF the new ostrich feathers and
marabouts have tips of cancels hair
Black silk, is combined with white
polka dotted black satin for steel cos
tunes.
Easter wings are more sought for as
Easter gifts for little folks than Easter
eggs.
Passion flowers form part Of the trim
mings of many fashionable evening bon
nets.
There is a return to the fashion OF lac
ing up the back of the corsage of evening
dresses.
The newest evening dresses have trim
med skirts with separate corsages and
basques.
The fashionable Easter flowers are yell
low, red and white roses and passion
flowers.
Long, sharp points back and front are
a marked feature in the new spring even
ing dresses.
White wood parasol handles are prefer
red for plain pongee or twilled soft silk
prrasols.
The small carriage parasol or sunshade
turning over the handle when raised, is
revived.
The passion flow appears among other
large floral decorations for evening con-
fections.
The marked feature in the spring open
ings is the revival of Marie Antoinette
and Vatican styles.
White wood polished and carved with
thread traceries initiates ivory to perfec-
ton in parasol handles.
The neck feathers of the Impeyan
pheasant make the most effective tipping
for ostrich or marabout plumes.
New parasols have quaint but finely
cut and carved handles of weichsel wood,
emitting a delicate perfume.
Some of the new black tulle good
thread dotted wells have boarders of gold
thread embroidery in light patterns.
The new white lawn and organdy mus
lin dresses for house wear have panier
basques and Pomadour polonaises.
Bamboo, tonkin, japanese birch, sweet
brier, rose thorn, and ebony handles of
fine parasols are finely carved.
Bugs, alligators, beetles, toads, and all
sorts of quaint, queer and curious things
are found among the carved ornaments
Of parasol handles.
When the corsages Of evening dresses
are made with long points front and back
they are made to fit like a glove over the
hips, but are quite short at that point, al
lowing the panier draperies to show be-
low.