The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-02-26
For the Ladies to Read.

Roman striped hose are the faVorlte
style at present.
A great deal of lace will be used in
spring and summer millinery.
Plain red oil calico is imported to
make up in combination with figured
goods.
French buntings are again largely
imported, and the finest are given a
crape-like effect that is new.
Japanese designs and colors4n per
Gale and mummy cloths increase in
number with each weeks importations.
Green shades, such as bronze, olive
and the darkest bottle-greeR, will be
much used in, combinations with fgur-
ed stuffs.
Large clusters of roses or chrysan-
themums are the flowers most used for
the corsage bouquet now worn with all
toilets.
Pearl-gray satin, with trimmings of
dregs-of-wine brocade, is a novel COM
bination of colors and material for mar
ried ladies.
The fancy plaid woolens for chill
dren's dresses are not in the colors of
the Scotch tartans, but in gay French
combinations.
Evening bonnets are generally white
the creamy white so much worn this
winter-with long ostrich plumes and
birds for trimming.
A square kerchief of India muslin
with a wide hem and IN edging of Ian
guedoc lace is worn around the neck,
either in the house or street.
Heavy cords and tassels are used as
garniture for all styles of costumes,
from that worn in the street to the
handsemest satin ball dress.
The monogram of the mistress of the
house embroidered in flowers is the
proper decoration for table-linen, &C
cordipg to a good French authority.
For black lace it is said the Spanish
blonde with its heavy designs will rival
the lighter Breton lace, as all Spanish
fashions and colors will be popular.
Diagonal cloths neither too heavy nor
too light for summer suits are princi-
pally seen in the new livery shades,
and will be made up in the simplest
manner.
The easiest way of making a tidy is
to embroider or paint pretty designs on
three strips of satin ribbon, and to fast
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of flowers.
Rouge Adrianople is the title French
merchants give to the Turkey red oil
calico worn a generation ago, and
which is among the old things that are
now made new.
The silk hats formerly worn only
with riding habits are row seen with
carriage and walking costumes, and are
almost always unbecoming, giving the
face a hard, masculine look.
Muffs are made of satin brocade anC
velvet, or of any handsome materia
that matches the costume with which
they are to be worn, and are trimmed
with lace or flowers, ribbon or birds.
Felerine collars of lace are among
the novelties imported for spring. The!
are large round collars, reaching ia,
down on the shoulders and finished
around the neck with a very full fraise
A shallow and almost square dish O
cut or engraved glass, supported by
silver standard, is among the latest pat
terms in ice-cream dishes. The dishe
may be either of white or of colore,
glass.
The house. toilet, with an apron over
dress, plain round waist and full walk
i. ing skirt, is one of the simplest design
for the pretty cotton costumes that will
be worn during the spring and sum
mer.
A few pieces of American prints hav
made their appearance. In design the,
follow the damask and brocade silks
and are in more decided floriation
e than have recently distinguished man
%ufactures of the kind.
! During the past week new silk an
! satin>damasks and new brocades hav
i been brought out. The damasks ar
j generally in monochrome or in tw
colors-a rich dark color or black, or
terder-tinted neutral color, relieving
positive ground.
Handkerchiefs of sheer silk musli
l. are imported in white and cream colo
stamped with a gay border of flower
L of natural hue-roses, fo~rget-me-not
II &c. These are to be made up in tn
p bans for wearing in the house, also, Fl
h cravat bows.
'T The new evening gloves, which we
III intended to fit the arm without a fas
u ening of any kind, with the exceptit
5, of two buttons at the wrist, nave pro
re ed a failures; and it is no wonder, (
re they could ty no possibility be made
fit the arm tightly enough to set smoot
Gs ly and not push down.
a Scotch ginghams, sometimes call
he Madras bingham, are again provided
no make the useful and pretty dresses til
en- came into favor last year. For the ne
is season there are large plaids of gay C,
"a ors for some parts of the dress, a
wv smaller plaids in the same colors t
of other parts of the same dress. Strip
to ginghams are also shown, and there a
by many of the gay-blue seersucker striI
alternating with white.