The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-02-26
FASHION NOTES.

jackets.
-Jet-beaded lace is as fashionable as
ever.
-Paniers do not seem to be gaining
ground.
-Mantillas will be morepopular than
paletots,
-Oldfashioned lute-string ribbons are
revived. ALAA
Small patterns prevail in new fig
ured dress goods.
Pheasant brown will be popular in
new millinery goods.
The tendency of fashion is to in
crease the size of the bonnet.
Beaded passementeries promise to
be more popular than ever.
Gypsy hats in large quantities are
seen among late importations.
-Tape-ike borders or feather edges
are seen on the new taffeta ribbons.
Dresses are still made with scant
skirts, bridled back and draped up be-
hind.
Most of the new spring dresses are
made with basque bodice and double
skirt.
The latest importations of spring
straw bonnets show a prevalence of
poke shapes.
Buttons in fanciful colors are much
used on black as well as solid colored
costumes.
Ostrich tips and large, snowy artifi-
cial flowers will be used to excess in
spring millinery.
The new shades of brown are pleas
ant, coachman's drab, and argent ct or
silver and gold.
old gold straw braids, alternating
with black chip, appear in many spring
hats and bonnets.
Dark colors will continue the more
fashionable even in late spring and early
summer goods.
-MerUetlleuSe ribbons have changea-
BILE colors through the center, with a
border of satin on the edge.
Long basques, reaching well over
the hips, are still worn by those to whom
they are becoming.
-Gobelin ribbons, in all the old tap
estrv colors and effects, are seen among
late millinery importations.
Few spring costumes are made of
one fabric. Frequently two, three, and
four materials are seen in one dress.
The favorite dark spring colors will
be marine blues, brownish reds, dark,
dull greens, and reddish puppies.
SPRING MILLINERY.
Further importations of spring mil
linery confirm the earliest adyices.
There will be very little change in the
shapes of bonnets, and those OF medium
sizes, neither very large nor very small,
are most seen at present. Poke shapes
of the moderate sizes are very largely
imported in all the various braids, such
as Tuscan, chip, lace straw, English
split straw, satin braids and LeghOrns.
The creamy yellow Tuscan braids and
the lustrous satin straws are very hand
some, and promise to be the leading
fabrics. The lace straws are open braids
in beautiful lace-like designs, and APP
pear to be much stronger than the frvil
straw laces formerly used. Sometimes
the brim only is striped with this lace,
while the crown is of more solid braid,
such as chip or Tuscan. A special nov
city is the cashmere effects given to these
new straws by introducing colored
threads in the lace-like design; pale
blue, heliotrope and red threads are
very effective when combined with the
natural hue of the straw. There are
also mottled effects of color given to
chip hats to match the costume with
which they are to be worn, and some
times two shades of colored chip form
alternate stripes all round the bonnet;
these are excellent for morning wear
or for travelling bonnets in two shades
of brown, beige, lavender, gray, or
green. Black chip bonnets have mere
ly the crown of chip, while the scoop
brim and the curtain are formed of straw
lace, which is heavily beaded with fine
jet beads; sometimes old gold straw is
arranged in stripes in the black chip
bonnets. The Marie Christine is the
name given to dressy affair which is
neither bonnet nor hat, something be-
tween, and is to be worn by young Ia
dies on dress occasions, at Newport or
Saratoga. 1t has a prominent crown,
with wide brim rolled back from the
front, and split in two from the edge to
the crown; this split is to come directly
on the top of the head, and the crown
is to be placed quite far back on
the head. The fiaring brim will be
faced with becoming color, and the
crown is to be trimmed down one side
with long Mercutio plume, and
down the other with flowers.
The yellow Tuscan braid is most
used for this Spanish head-dress, with
Spanish lace strings, and the new Span
ish yellow called Isabelle will appear in
the trimmings, combined with red in
the flowers, to complete the national
colors of Spain. There are other wide
brimmed round hats in various shapes,
recalling the Devonshire and Pinafore
STYLES of last season, and young ladies
who have valuable Legt.orn and chip
hats left from last simmer will find them
useful this year, as they will readily
lend themselves to all that is new in the
late importations. Gypsy hats are very
largely imported in the most coquettish
shapes, to be worn well back on the
head, with the sides tied down, and the
front projecting in poke shape. Then
there are hats with halo brims that
frame the face and show off handsome
hair, as they are to be merely perched
on the back of the head; and there are
turbans of various shapes, to be worn
low down in front or far back on the
head, according to the taste of the wear
er.-Harper's BazGr. -H
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