The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-05-02

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Dolly Warden styles are revived.
New parasols are generally lined
Round trains are generally prefer
red.
Short dresses for country wear have
paniers.
Short dresses for city wear do no,
have paniers.
Every fashionable dress has satin
for part Of it.
Very low necks are again fashiona-
bic for1vening toilet.
Black Breton bids fair to take the
place of black French lace.
Some snowy parasols have the ribs
giided, silyered, or colored.
Black tulle wells, with tiny gold
thread dots, are recent novelties.
Changeable and shot silks arc seen
again on dry-goods counters.
Silk handkerchief overdresses are
worn with plain foulard skirts.
Passion flowers form part Of the
trimmings Of many fashionable evening
bonnets.
There is return to the fashion OF
lacing up the back of the corsage of
evening dresses.
The newest evening dresses have
trimmed skirts with separate .corsages
and basques.
Long sharp points back and front
are marked feature in the new spring
evening dress.
White wood parasol handles are
preferred for plain pungee or twilled soft
silk parasols.
Some of the new black tulle gold
thread dotted wells have borders of gold
thread embroidery in light patterns.
The new white lawn and organdy
muslin dresses for house wear have pan
Ter basks and Pompadour polonaises.
When the corsages Of evening
dresses are made with long points trent
and back they are made to fit like
glove over the hips. but are quite short
at that point, allowing the panier dra-
peries to show below.
New white muslin skirts are trim-
med with two or three plated frills of
Hamburg embroidery. They still con-
tinue to be made with deep yokes at the
top, and the longer skirts have fan
trains.
-Brocaded ribbons are shown in
Japanese designs delicately tinted, and
50 artistically done that they look like
water-color paintings These are beau
tiful on the Tucsan hats for the water.
ing places.
Several styles of wraps appear. The
favorite dolman and fichu lose none of
their popularity, and there are light
scarf-capes and jackets of light cloth or
Of brown, beige, cana1ue, dark blue
simply trimmed with GALLON, with a
vest in masculine fashion. The visites
and mantelets are seen in Chuddah
cloth, drap d'ete, or silk, and are ele-
gantly trimmed with fringe, Jet
passementerie, embroidery and lace. A
new ulster called the " Brighton Of
which there is 3 paper pattern, fits more
closely and has peculiar sleeves, giving
dolman effect to the back. The
"Vivian " and "Florencc scars are
intended for summer wrap, and there
are besides excellent paper patterns OF
the Demorest invention especially suit
ed for home dress making for the
"Justine I" and "Aretta = mantelcts
and " Isonde" and "Toline- visites.
The Hilorie and +" Directoirer Jack
cts are the newest made with vest and
will be easily managed by the most in
experienced home dress-maker.
-ParasoIs have appeared in new
shape, still showing the inevitable ten.
dency to be Oriental, so they have the
hat Japanese styles and are made with
narrow cores over sixteen gilded ribs,
no longer covered BY the lining, which
Is placed next to the covering. The
sticks are straight and show many fan
ciful devices in the handles, such as q
swans curving neck, frogs head, a |
knob Of beautiful Mexican onyx, carna
ton, Labrador feldspar, lapis lazuli, or
taceted crystal. The covers are seen In
brocaded silk, striped satin, polka spot
ted satin, or pongee, black silk, satin.
Scotch plaid in satin or gingham to cor
respond with the fanciful gingham and \
bandana dresses. Saline parasols will \
be fashionably used at seaside aud
mountain resorts. Saline Is lustrous,
cottony fabric in celors Of pale blue,
rose, pearl-gray; ribbon Is attached
in place Of . strap, which may be tied
in bow. Some of the new parasols
measure twenty-four inches. New sun
come in dark wine shades
ard gendarme blue.
Black silk dresses are scarcely made
this season entirely Of plain silk; fig
nred or striped satin Is employed to
finish even the simplest dress, while at
least third Of an elaborate dress Il OF
figured or striped satin, which Is used
IS folds, revers, counterpieces, vest, col
lars. etc. Decidedly elegant are the
rests Of black satin with delicate pat
.erns of small Howers embroidered in
olive shades, faded green. gold and lust