The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07
(Harper's Bazar.1
New York Fashions.

The first mportations of goods for the next
season show stripes armures, basket-woven
goods, small neat foriated designs, polka dots,
and borders for trimmings. Plain smoothly
woven fabrics are shown in colors to ac-
company the striped and figured stuffs, aud the
combination of two or three kinds of material
in single dress will evidently be continued.
The new woolens have what Is called by
merchants the "fannel inisb," meaning
woolly surface, without lustre and very soft.
These come 10 plain colors, or else in the loose
basket-weaving. The coors are moss, beige
brown, gray, and black. A new camels-hair
fabric is shown without twills and with flannel
finish; it is of lighter weight than any before
shown, and Is as thin as bunting or grena-
dine; it is most largely imported in beige
brown and black. The gray woolens look pref
tiest in odd armure designs, or 10 stripes a
fourth Of an iuch wide of two clear shades Of
French gray. The standard de beige is imported
in gray, olive, moss, beige, aud navy blue.
Low priced wooden mixtures for the million
have tiny thread stripes and checks, or zigzsg
effects Of two shades, such as cream " th
brown, or else in contrast, as grey with red.
Checkered effects are given in the weaving
rather than in the colorng; stripes will be pre-
ferred to checks, or at least they have been
more largely imported. Few plaids are shown,
but there are many cross-blrred patterns.
The lustre of satin is so popular at present
that it has been given to cot on goods, and the
novelty for spring wash dresses will be satteens,
hnely twlled, yet soft and f-xlble, and with Q
genuine gloss like the lustre of satin. Whether
this satin finish will survive washing remains
to be seen, but the pretty patterns are said to
be fast; they are small flowers in exquisite col
ors, beautifully grouped, as If designed by AZ
fists. The grounds are sky blue, cream, French
gray, brown, or white, aud there are striped
grounds of two contrasting colors-rose with
blue, gray with pink, cream with blue. These
are to form gay Pompadour over-drssses with
striped vests and plain colored skirts Among
the best satteeos are stripes of two shades Of
gray or ecru, with border Of dark cardinal red
strewn with pslm l-aves.
Another novelty Is basket-woven cotton with
the thick threads cruklad like ORIENTAL SUITS,
and the white, dsrk blus, gr.V, or cram
grounds strewn with tinS araossqie les or with
how-rs, l,ng-stemmed ptnk', heor-de-lis, reeds,
and grasses; pale blue grounds have olive dg-
urrs, white grounds have s.abesqaeI of red
with blue, aed violet grounds have bright yell
low buttercups. The quaintest old-ti me designs
aud the flowers Of old fashioned gardens are
on the newest goods.
French and English callcoes, lawns aud or
CANDIES have sWsll figures and South Ksnsiog-
ton designs Of flowers, vin.s, or branches on
pale blue, gray, drsb, or cream grounds. Others
have stripes Of two eolors on white, or small
palm leaves, rose-buds, or ragged sailors, on
dark olive, old gold, or blue ground with dado-
like borders Tue flowers or vines are massed
closely together for the border and sire wu about
in artistic disorder over the breadth Of the
goods The borders are two and a b .lf or three
iuchss, aud so-maDy yards of trimmiog are re-
CURED to trim dress that a double border is
furaished by having stripe of 1t down each
selvedge, instead of only one selveige, as was
formerly done. The lawns will cost from Is
cents to 40 cents yard. Cslicoes of solid col