Sharp County record., 1880-03-25
FASHION NOTES.


Handkerchief dresses in new forms
will be worn again.
Round skirts without tlounces are
very popular for cheviots.
-PolonaiseS will be worn this spring
under the name of hOuplandeS.
-Bareges of soft finish and fine tex
ture will be worn in the summer.
-Parasols of Madras plaids will be
used with handkerchief costumes.
Large smoked pearl buttons appear
on most of the new English walking
jackets.
Large quantities of fine all-wool
cheviots are brought out for early spring
suits.
The seaside grenadines, greatly I'M
proved in texture and finish, Will again
be worn.
Scotch ginghams come this year in
solid colors of dark wine shades, pea
cock blue, and lichen green.
-Flannel-fnished cheviots are almost
as much in demand as camePs hair
cloths were last season.
-Yeddo foulards are fine, thin, but
not diaphanous, cotton fabrics with a
slightly repped silk-fnished surface.
Real silk Chinese grapes have been
imported in large quantities this spring
to combine with brocaded and fancy silk
fabrics.
-Rose-pink, gray-blue, and canary
yellow are favorite combinations OF
color in many of the new striped,
plaided, and printed goods.
The latest fichus are very large and
of India muslin, embroidered on the
edges. Sometimes lace Is added to the
wrought edges.
The greatest novelties in the dry
goods that have appeared for several
years are the Yeddo grapes and Ieddo
foulards.
Chip Tuscan, lace-straws, split
English, satin braids, and Leghorn
straws all appear in the new spring mil
inery importations.
Black chip bonnets for the coming
season have the crowns only OF chip.
while the brim and curtain are formed
of lace straw.
Grown trimmings for bonnetS will
be of soft satin duchesse, or satin sub
lime, in cashmere effects, changeable
and plain colOrS,
Brazilian bugs and beetles, both
real and artificial, are much used fol
decorative purposes on the feathers anc
flowers of new millinery.
Some of the new spring co]ors arc
japanese blue, or turquoise Isabelle vel
low, Isabelle pink, lilac, lavender, hello
trope, mauve, and violet.
Some of the Yeddo foulards have
solid grounds or pearl gray, cream, anc
pure white, on which appear small ant
graceful designs in flowers and set fig
ureS.
Tortoise shell headed pins in al
sorts of shapes, black jet, silver, fila
gree, and amber ornaments, beads, ani
chains are all very fashionable with new
coiffures.
The Yeddo grapes are extremely
fine crape-like cotton fabrics, not dia
phanous, but very light and cool in tex
ture, washable, and returning to tht
Grape crinkle after being laundered.
The "sportsman's iacket'' ha!
square basques in front, is rather shor
and half-titting behind, loose before,
has number of pockets OF all sizes anc
shapes, and profusion of fancy but
| tons.
Plain black velvet underskirts art
considered stylish worn with an over
skirt of wooden goods. These skirts
are never bound, but have the braid Sc
fatty under the hem, projecting sufli
GENTLY to protect the velvet.
The new brocades show much larg
er foriations than appear in those worr
during the winter. Natural flowers o
full size have not only been copied, bu
patterns of brocades appear in flower
OF magDlhed Size, ana tnere are paCIefH
in which shells and scrolls are inter
blended with blossoms and foliage
These brocades are generally in mono
chrome and their otherwise pronounced
effect is modified.
The new spring jackets, to serve
for outside wraps with any dress, retail
their English shapes. They are mostl.
skirted coats, with the horizontal sean
which joins the waist and skirt directly
at the waist line instead of below it
They are of medium length, as they ar,
rough h-and-ready jackets TO be worn witt
any short suit, rather than a wrap 70
dress occasions. The fronts are double
breasted, yet the revcrs collar come
quite close to the throat; and the move
feature of these coats is the curved from
of the skirt, instead of the cut-away bia:
slope worn last year. The back is quit
closely fitted by short side form, i
open in the middle seam below th
waist, is folded Or has a lapel in tn