The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-24
Fashion Sprays.

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waist with its belt, apron overskirt, and
simple skirt with one or two hounces,
cut so as to clear the ground. With
these are worn either aprons of silk or
muslin.
The favorite material for hats is the
fine French chip. Many of them are
caught up one side and filed in with
roses, or dropped over the face and
filed in with shirring of brocade or satin.
Never let this charming and simple
house dress descend into wrapper, or
any other careless substitute at home,
of all places, the wife should dress neat
ly, attractively, both for her husband
and children.
Broad sashes of black velvet ribbon
are worn by young ladies, and are fast
ened at the back of the waist with q
scsrf pin instead of being tied. It's
hopeful that only slender figures will
attempt this revival of an old fashion.
An aigrette, bow, or an ivory comb,
placed high on the side of the head,
adds considerably to the appearance of
height. Those of short stature should
adopt this hint, instead of wearing that
instrument of torture, the high
heeled" boot.
Shawl-back slides are made of oxydized
silver, gold, crystal and plain gold.
They are used to fasten the lace shawl
at the back when worn in any way
around the head. They are particularly
pretty for the Spanish laces now used
for head drapery.
Gray in its different shades promises to
be the prevailing color, both here and in
Paris, this season. They are made short,
with kilt-plsited skirt, basque or polon-
aise. They have gsrniture Of ribbons,
and bright colored silks are used as pip
ings and tscings.
Tomake black dresses look more spring
like, make the vests, reVers, collars and
facings of white and black striped silk
or satin, the stripes about three~fourths
of an inch wide. Some use the old gold
and black stripe, but this seems s little
to pronounced for the street.
For ordinary wear are shown jackets
of light>colored cloth. These are made
with a true tailor cut and are finished
on the edge with two rows of machine
stitching. pockets are placed on the
hips, and horn buttons are generally
used on these garments.
Soft crowned satin and lace caps will
be much worn. also shirred rims and
crowns, almost like the Normandy hat,
that should belong exclusively to the
children; this style of hat when worn
by grown people seems like an infringe
ment of the children's right.
Never was lace used as mueh as at the
the present time. Both white and black
Breton ace is mace into eollarettes and
fchus. A blonde can wear black lace in
any profusion and will find it becoming,
but the deep yellow lsces maEsis better
setting for the brune's dark hair and
complexion.
Few women understand, not even
those 'well up" in the arts of artistic
dressing, the refining influence of soft
folds of lace used as ornamentation of
the bonnet or dress. The charm of old
costumes is the profusion of lace that
was worn as ruffs down the front of the
dress and at the neck and waist, soften
ing and toning down; harsh outlines OF
face or figure.
Any woman can now exercise her own
taste and yet be stylish and well dressed,
providing she has any taste of her own
to exercise. The plump woman can
disguise her plumpness in welleftting
princesse dress, though if very large she
should never wear anything but neutral
eolors. The short woman can wear
demi.trained skirts and slightly trimmed.
The slender, tall figure can wear the
shirred waists and overskirts, the latter
drsped high and much trimmed.
In these days of fashion, when rules
and colors are not arbitrary,a woman has
10 right to go ill-dressed, or to wear in
eongruous colors. The cheapest prints
have well-blended colors and dainty 6g>
ures. Any woman of any "knack"
whatever can make a well-ftting, stylish
garment, by using any one of the paper
patterns now for sale in even the SMALL
country villages. Surely thew would
not be outdone by their foreign sisters,
for paper patterns are now exported to
all the foreign countries--even to China,