The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-03-14

old gold color holds its own.
-Ragusa point Is the coming lace.
-Faience blue is among the new coll
ors.
Breton is the lace Of the passing
moment.
Cotelinc is another nam for printed
dimity.
Tho tendency is to make short
skirts still shorter.
The Turkish fez is the latest novelty
in French caps.
A new shade Of dark green bears
the name of Serrentine.
-Gendarme blue is a new dark shade
Of this popular color.
Wax white is the very palest imagi-
nable shade Of straw color.
Lead white is what may be termed
a dark shade of white.
-Pekine is the name applied to all
striped goods this season.
Chinese blues and Chinese green's
are found among the new colors.
Seaside ~grenadine comes with
greatly improved texture this spring.
All costumes are de yigueur combin-
atoms Of several materials this season.
Jeanne dare cuirass corsages and
paniers are coming in vogue for street
wear.
The Psyche couture is in the highest
favor at present as showing the shape
of the head.
Embroidery or clocking, or both,
all around the leg of the stocking is q
new feature in spring hosiery.
Garnet, with all the kindred reds of
Bordeaux, ruby maroon, cardinal, and
nacarat is immensely popular.
The voltaire stocking is Of the
darkest shade Of dragon blue silk, with
a pyramidal side gore Of tartan in R0-
mar colors.
Among lace novelties are found side
sachels Of Duchesse, and Brussels point,
lined with colored silk, satin, or velvet
-Pckine foulards, with Sevres porce-
lain designs in running patterns over
them, are seer on the silk-counters this
spring.
The gloves Of the coming season en-
brace q wider variety in Isle thread, kid,
and lace mitts than ever before seen in
one season.
Lace gloves with fingers as well as
with long wrists will be worn in the
spring, as well as lace mitts and half
fingered lace gloves.
Mummy cloth is so named from its
crape-like texture resembling the cotton
cloths in which ancient Egyptian num-
mics are found.
The new kid-gloves are welted at the
top with three wells, half an inch apart,
and 70 this a lace frilI at the top is fire.
quently added.
French, English, and American
dress goods, whether wool or cotton,
show textures with double twilled or
satteen, mummy, armure, and coteline
effects this spring.
The bonnets Of this spring are larg-
er than those Of the passing season; the
brims flare, but there are no face trim
mings, the hair being dressed full to sup
ply the deficiency.
The new lisle-thread gloves are
seen in all the kid colors and pure white;
they are silk finished and irregular
made, initiating kid so well as to be pre-
ferred for full dress wear.
The handsomest novelties in silk
hosiery are the boot hose, with clock
ings and cmbroideries in contrasting
colors to the upper part Of the beg, form
ing q simulated boot upper cloth, while
the slipper forms the foxing.
The pannicr Of the season will be
slightly bouiiant at the lower part Of the
waist, from this ii gradually slopes out
10 form q small cxtcnder for the bottom
Of the skirt. The bayaleuse still remains
as q final finish for handsome dresses;
instead Of being made of thin unwasha-
BILE material, they are now made Of fine
organdy and handsomely embroidered.
In making up combinations Of silk
and velvet, the skirt is made Of silk, as
also i a perfectly plain pointed basque.
The velvet Is then made into a court
oyerdress, with a long square train.
Sleeves are made very marrow the entire
length, and ft very closely at the waist.
The entire trimming consists OF a small
pointed Danish cuff and q row Of six
buttons extending up the outer seam.