Sharp County record., 1880-04-15
FASHION NOTES.

dress even in the summer than silk
itself.
Wide side plaitings finish the bot
toms of the skirts of new costumes, the
plaitings being from fourteen to eighteen
inches in width.
The new monte cloths are more
finely finished than those Of last season.
The surfaces are smoother and the
small designs, in various colorS, possess
great artistic merit.
An American foulard six, new this
spring, is called satin imAHme, or inn
dressed satin. 1t is made iRchintz and
small palm designs and all the new and
fashionable cOlors. H.
Square handkerchiefS of bright
colored striped foulard are twisted into
pretty dress caps for ladies, and fastened
on the head with large Spanish pins or
bouquets of artificial flowers.
One of the summer uyerskirts is a
wrinkled scarf, with its rPPef, edge bor-
dered by a strip of brocade and termi-
mating in box plating. The garment
is not particularly handsome.
Fashionable false fronts of waved
or curled hair cover the whole crown OF
the head, coming low over the forehead
and fastened beneath the knot with a
small shell comb on each side.
-Merino is used for morning and
house dresses; they are trimmed with
borders of rich-fgured cretonne stripes,
usually seen only on curtains, with VEIN
ings and shadings hand-embroidered in
silk.
Tuscan shawls promise to be the
favorite among handsome summer
millinery. A choice novelty in hats has
alternate stripes of Persian and satin
finished straw, which will harmonic
with the new Persian ribbons.
Dark flannel skirts, brown, blue, or
Russian green, are trimmed with en-
broidery in Persian colors with coarse
silk. On some the decoration takes the
form of a box-plaited flounce, with de-
sign on the top of each plait, or floral
spray.
The latest novelty in dress goods is
ecru cotton, thicker than the heaviest
unbleached muslins of last summer,
and with bayadere stripes Of bright
shades of blue, scarlet, yellow, and
black. Over these bayadere domestics
are sometimes draped the cheese-cloths
of last summer.
The majority of the new spring
dresses are made wilma basque bodice
and double skirt. Th$panier arrange
ment is not gaining ground, though the
skirt is always draped, more or less, at
the back, In the matter Of material,
all dresses have two or more colors In
combination. Very few spring dresses
are made of but one fabric. A favorite
combination is that of small pattern
in old gold or orange color over a
bronze or dark blue ground, with same
self f-colored material in plain dark green
OF blue.
Among sim pc sssFprtig walking suits
are fine dark colored tlannels in the
latest shades of blue, green and other
colors, with q finish of many rows OF
very narrow white or black braid. The
waist is belted, the overskirt has an
apron front and full drapery at the
back, and the lower skirt is kilt plated.
Walking jackets for spring differ from
previous styles principally in having
longer skirts. A new model is double
breasted and slightly cut away at the
front below the waist, forming long
narrow opening. What are called
blanket cloths, in mixed hues with fint
lines of color running through them
are made up in this style, and show the
tailor's finish. Fancy silk and WOO
sacques will be trimmed with fur fol
early spring, after which fringes anc
feather trimming will probably b.
popular.
The Cheviots of pure wool loosely
woven are among the fayorite fabrics
for early spring suits that will also
serve for traveling-dresses during tn
summer. These soft goods have what
was called last year the "fanne
finish; =" they are evenly but loosely
woven, and are without luster. They
come in small pin-head checks of cream
with brown, two drab shades, pal'
olive with dark green, and two shade
of gray. They are double fold, forty
five inches wide, and are 81 yard
When made in simple styles now II
vogue for such dresses, eight or nin'
yards is an abundance for whole suit
One of the fayorite plans for sucl
dresses is the round full skirt, stitched
as border, but not fiounced, and wori
with long surtout overdress that i!
left open below the waist in all its seam
not merely in the middle back seam
The only silk or satin used on sucl
suits is that employed as 4
wide facing on the edges and up tn
open parts of the waist; this faclnt
is sometimes in a gay contrasting color
though a darker shade of the same colo
will be preferred for plain travelling