Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-03-24
.NEV YORK FAGHJONS.
New Ronnsts and What They Arc
Like - Spring Materials for Co.'S
tumos-C0ttaYes and Pokes-Platds,
NJ.

/ Special Correspond ,nce OF state Journal.
| New YORK, March l9.-As finish upon
the new bonnet, nothing will be more
earnestly coveted than spider with
stretched-out legs, or wasp or hornet
dressed in war paint, and ready to sting,
unless it he crocodile or elephant mutely
staring from beds OF Meehln or Spanish
lace or folds Of soft Surah silk. Bugs,
too, are in high repute and rival the
spider family, and in both we find Young
and old, big and little, crowding on our
astonished vision. Coming to the bonnet
| ITSELF tts first requisite we observe TO be
| yelloSness. White straw is an abonina-
ton and black almost as much so, though
| the latter doea appear to 4 limited extent.
| Porcupine straws have superseded the
rough and ready for general wear, being
so called because the straw is woven in
sharp projections over the surface. Here
the all peryading yellow is conspicuous,
but giinmering through the uprising
straws We see ground works OF some
darker shade, such as garnet, deep blue,
&e. Higher grades are in Tuscan,
Belgian, Leghorn or Panama, while OF
| open work there is vrery Imaginable
| variety. r..
| The piles of cottage shapes which load
Importers counters are good evidence
| that they will be worn extensively, but
{. ere are poke b0nnets not a few. Hats
are less conservative III form and here
there are wide briins caught fancifully,
| other brims woven in fanciful turnings as
| well n the sober, standard English walk
| ing hat. But rs a rule, the open work
| bonnets are small while ilaring hats are
| in close woven straw. Shaded ribbons
are a marked and leading feature; some
| deep tone OF color commencing on one side
and diminishing to the other until pale
hue is reached. To give room for these
| effects most of the new ribbons
are very wide, but as exceptions we
see some quite narrow, between the two,
all diversties being observable. None
the less new and notable are the striped
or plaided ribbons. Here a wide range Of
novelties opens up before us extended
as the kingdom of plaids and stripes in
dress goods and silks. In flowers, the
production of shading is the first thought
and every other consideration is subordi-
nate thereto. Thus, i'll ali the new sprays,
there is gradual ascension from dark to
| light, or rice versa. Medium or small
sized flowers are grouped together in
sprays or garlands in the tirst-named,
the heavier portion is in deep shade,
ihsensibly growing paler as the ends are
reached, while in the latter there are
alterations of color throughout. Often
two similar sprays are connected in the
middle by an ornament and both shade
away towards the ends. favorite idea
is to mass small flowers in circular
mounds with aigrette emerging from tile
centre, and these too are prettily shaded.
A striped and plaided madness will
soon seize upon the fashionable world.
Look in at shop windows and you see
signs of the coming infection. Piles upon
piles of plaids, piles upon piles of stripes.
Go in and survey the counters over and
over again they greet you. The new
light woolens are SO wrought ; silks like
wise, and as for ginshams, they descend
like swarm of locusts ON the land. In
plaids, all sizes, from small checks up to
bold, conspicuous squares interlacing
each other appear, but in stripes there is
s marked aversion to such as are broad
The effect OF broad stripes, however, is
often produced by asseinblages OF narrow
ones massed together with wide intervals
between. They run both lengthwise and
III bayadere style but thu latter instead
oil being draped across will be often
about at intervals Oh costumes of PLAIN
goods. For of course there must be plain
material to combine at least SO far as silks
and woolens go. But ginghams and
cotton satines i'll lowered designs cot
which large quantities are importpd) will
be trimmed with Cash embroideries that
are now brought out to match. These
elnbroideries are woven in all manner Of
| vim ltap
with edges Of coiored embroidery, looking
ever 50 cunning and pretty. There is in
deed a rush for them not only as a trim
ming for ladies' dresses, but for chiltlrrn's
since their fineness Of texture and fast
coloring makes them especially adapted
to the wants OF Juveniles.
The Pilgrimage suit is quite new and
consists of a goreti walking skirt trimmed
with ilounce arranged iii clustered
plaits, q polonaise with HAT Vatican
plat which forms the drapery in the back
of the skirt. and IL cape with collar and
lacing with cords i'll the back and IN the
shoulders. The drapery across the front
is separate from the polonaise and may
be OF contrasting material, as may also
the clustered plaits in the ilounce. But
the whole can be made of plain material
such as flannel, serge, &c. Overskrts will
wool.ns and cottons and L.r,. ,,r.,,,.,e,,i
design i th, Lotnlla connns.d of ,o,n
u5J;1 dround in gntbArs n III. Si,l". I'll III
rather houtrant dron.rv ~ ~ l,a "'I'
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dranurv In frnnt shi,r.d III. ,,,i ,id;,'.i
bns,ns .tirt ba.;u,, nd s',',i,",;
an ordinary, tight fitting waist, and
"i'e any ma'efial, IL
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va" ~ msie possioio iof me 10 convey to
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uiuSu"i u'spiay OF Illustrated suits in
= 80. no" ep'ti;s e"'a,"eue, where al that
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