Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-04-20
POUR LES DANES.
A Thousand Fineries for AdOra.
Iion and Adjournment OfWOmen.
Street dresses are all short.


The surtOut is the coming garment.
Gold g~litters and sparkles on every
thing.
A great deal of red is used on black
dresses.
New sui,s of white nainsook are
bounced to the waist.
Languedoc lace is much used for
trimming evening dresses.
Crepe lisse rushings are set inside
the brims of small bonnets.
Heliotrope and cream is the favor
lite combination of colors this season.
Plain colored French bu%ntings will
be combined with figured ioulards for
wear at the watering places.
Cotton satin, with printed designs
OF flowers, is the novelty said to be
held in reserve for the summer.
New dress buttons come in two
sizes-one intended for the coat and
the other for the dress waist.
Wide round collars, a full frill of
deep embroidery, edged with wide
lace, are the fashionable style for chill
dren's wear.
Few women's handicrafts are now
more lucrative than embroidery. Such
work, when well done, commands
high prices.
A stylish cOrsage for dinner dresses
is the jacket a paniers, the basques
of which are rounded off and draped
into paniers on either side.
The Spanish c%olors, mingled With
red and yellow, find much favor in
flowers and Marchale veil and bright
red j%acqueminot roses are used in the
same cluster.
New rash ribbons have white
grounds covered on both sides with
gay designs in japanese printing,
framed in inch wide satin borders. in
red, blue, heliotrope and other shades.
American silks every year approach
nearer to the perfection of the fam
Gus costly French goods. They are
shown in all the new designs Of bro
cades, damasse and satin, as well as in
palmer styles.
Evening dresses are made with the
bodice open. in the shape of a square
or an oval, and trimmed with drape-
ries, lace and fringe. The sleeves are
finished at the elbow. and trimmed IN
correspond.
Many mzaarin collars are still worn.
both Of white and black lace. Two
pleated pieces Of point d'esprit, or Of
Of crepe lisse ruching, one turned
up and the other down, with a ribbon
between, make a very pretty collar.
Among recent impOrtations are St-
rah cloths, in Persian mixtures, for
handsome s%urtouts, to be worn over
satin skirts, in the new shades, girls.
allie, heliotrJpe, plum, bottle-green
and the army Of new browns, blues
and drab shades.
Narrow pleatings form a fayorite
trimming for the foot of skirts; these
are three inches wide when finished
and are made to lap an iuch upon
each other, the pleating is then pulled
out of its fat folds to look as bunohy
as possible.
Surtouts suits, consisting Of long
coats Of elegant shape, slashed in the
back nearly to the waist. lined with
bright silk, provided with handsome
buttons, and worn with skirts finished
by simple knife p!eatiDgs, are a faver-
lite style for handsome walking dresses.
Fashion continues to regard only
such women as are very small and
slight-in a word, fat figures. 1t
specially favors shirred dresses, that
is to say, gathered at close intervals.
Thus the front of dresses-tablier and
plastran-is sometimes entirely shirred
from top to bottom.
Figured materials are now used for
entire dresses, being combined largely
With material of one shade, which Is
used for the folds, hounces. revers
vest-in a word, for all the trimmings
Of a dress. This combination. how.
ever, is not so pretty as the reverse,
which consists Of a plain dress with
accessories made of figured fabrics.
In Paris a fayorito toilette is black
satin, the front trimmed with three
killings, and the train looped up in
three places; an Indian cashmere man.
tie, made out of a shawl edged with
multi oolored fringe; a black bonnet
covered with jet, a row of large beads
round the brim, either a pouf of feath-
ers or a bouquet Of %violots at the side.
The cheviots of pure wool loosely
woven are among the fayorite fabrics
tor early spring costumes that will
also serve for travelling dresses durinp
the summer, they have what wa,
called last year the flannel finish
are evenly but loosely woven, and arc
without lustre. They are in small
pin-head checks Of cream with brown
two drab shades, pale olive with dark.
er green, and two shades Of gray.
|, keceat importations of Lisle thread
hosiery show some unique designs
Among these Is a checkeT-baqrd pat.
tern IN alternate squares Of red anC
gold. Other styles suggest old fash.
Toned patch work; thus in one small
space half squares Of blue and crimson
are set at regular intervals, on
ground Of old gold, while another hal
figures in the pattern which our Grand
mothers called the fsh-hack7F