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and these are the most desirable. Hart.
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NOTES ABOUT THE FASHIONS.
Silk bonnets are in high favor and are
made to match the toilet.
The shooting jacket nov so popular is
becoming only to slender figures
Plush will be used upon spring costumes
of cheviot, cloth and cashmere.
Uncut velvet in changeable colors will
be used this season as dress trimming.
Henry IL. toques of plush or velvet are
favorite hats both in Paris and London.
The corsage bows of satin to be worn at
the left side of the belt have reached alb
surd dimensions.
Embroidery and hemstitching in the
highest styles of decorative art are now
applied to table linen.
The most fashionable porte 5onher of
the moment is the bracelet formed of silver
medals.
The old-fashioned flowing sleeves of lace
are again popular. The wide directoire
collars are worn with them.
Doye.colored silk stockings embroidered
in colors to match the toilet are the very
latest novelties in French hosiery.
Egyptian scarabees and South American
beetles have been supplanted by locusts
and Texas taran ulas formed of gold and
enamel inlaid with imitation jewels.
Bridemaids wear short wells of white
silk tulle, and shoulder capes, and dainty
mouchoir muffs, formed entirely of white
flowers and edged with frills of rich lace
Chenille flowers and foliage are very
fashionable they are used for coifures
and the trimming of bonnets, aud are
especially pretty and effective when
twisted among the braids and coils of the
hair.
Brocaded and plaided Surah is much
used for brides or spring bonnets. A pair
of these broad scarfs like strings, with an
Alsacian bow on the crown of the hat, is
all the trimming that is needed to trans
form a winter bonnet into bright-looking
head. dress suitable to wear until the June
breezes blow.
The Louis XIV. coat basques for street
wear will continue in favor The material
for these coats is generally of black en-
bossed velvet, as they can then, be worn
over skirts OF every description. The coat
requires very little garniture except the
buttons, which must be very handsome.
Steel lace is novel fancy in millinery
trimmings, although gold and silver laces
retain their popularity, and Spanish,
Remours, Renaissance, and laces wrought
m designs Of white Derbyshire spar beads
and seed pearls have appeared In large
quantities, and are much employed In the
formation OF opera and reception bonnets.
Newly imported costumes are all bou6ant
in effect about the hips, bnt narrow, plain
and clinging around the lower portions of
the skirts. The sharply peaked bodice is
also feature of these toilets, many of
them having handsome fichus of lace to be
worn over them. The general effect is a
close resemblance to the costumes Of the
latter part of the eighteenth century.
Some of the new spring bonnets are
studded with mock Jewels and some OF
the fancy hraids are dotted with tiny straw
buttons and crystal heads. The bright
yellow straws have the precedence of the
pure white, although the white chips are
unusually delicate and beautiful, aud are
exceedingly graceful IN shape. The Belgian
split satin braids and the Florence and
Tuscan straWs are equally attractive and
new in design.
The new directoire mantle is made very
long and is exceedingly graceful. This
wrap is shirred over the neck and shoulders
and is made of dark bronze, or black
vigogne, lined with gold-colored Surah silk,
and trimmed with amber, bronze and gold
beaded ornaments. Sometimes the mantle
is formed of heavy black Sicilienne, lined
with crimson and trimmed with sparkling
ornaments OF jet and Hungarian cords and
spikes
Although the spring dress fabrics are ex.
ceedingly elegant IN color and design, there
is noticeable and happy tendency toward
simplicity of style in the formation of the
garments made OF this new material Street
costumes are made in the severe style so
popular the past season-the Trinitariai
dress being decided favorite. This CO.'S
tune viii be much in vogue during Lent,
and is invariably made of black. Another
popular dress to be worn during this season
is short killed skirt of black Hindoo
cashmere, with a draping of the same ma
terial laid over it in heavy upright folds.
A jersey bodice is added, and over this
waist is worn pelerine of black fur or
nlush