National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-26
FASHIONS FANCIES.

| Long overskirts will be in vogue this
spring.
Only one variety of flowers is used in
| the same hat.
The style called albums" is quaint and
very striking.
Plastrons of very rich material are seen
on the new basques.
Bonnet crowns of black net are wrought
with cut-steel beads.
The big Bernhardt bows are becoming
| to long, thin faces only.
! High hair-dressing in the style of
Louis XIV. is now Ia mode.
Lace spun of straw will be a novelty
on new spring and summer hats.
Flowers and feathers will be about
equally used upon spring bonnets.
Most of the new dresses for school girls
are double breasted, and have large buttons.
Cretonnes for shirtings and dresses
show designs of buttes, dragon flies and horse
shoes.
Seven hundred thousand women in
France and Italy are employed in the manufacture
of raw silk from the cocoon.
Some of the new patterns of cotton
goods, both for indoor and outdoor costumes, have
the appearance of embroidery.
4 number of the new figures on spring
cambria are exact copies of wedge-shaped, cunef-
form figures seen ON Assyrian antiquities.
Poke bonnets ought only to be worn by
those whose faces are so beautiful that even this
ugly style cannot mar the effect of their lovely
lips and brilliant eyes.
JabOts of creamy lace with a bunch of
strawberries, leaves, and flowers, with a hanging
cluster of fruit or with small bunch ofmandarin
oranges and leaves, are worn at the side of the
belt.
One ofthe best models for cotton dress
express the Jersey design, with a pointed
throat and embellished with a handsome muslin
fichu; the monk style of sleeve and apron over
skirt, with the wrinkled model and deeply pointed
on the left side.
French bunting comes in all colors
black, however, appears to be a general favorite
handsome dress made of this material has the
trimming of rich black satin, with deep fringe
running around the wrinkled apron. very eIe-
CANT costume Of creamy white bunting has scar
let satin garniture, with additional trimming of
bugle fringe. soft sash of satin is worn around
the waist tied on the left side the ends are short
and handsomely finished with two rows of bugle
fringe.
The latest designs in jewelry are novel
and artistic. A bird of paradise is composed of
minute precious stones, Win It's teet resting on
large pearl. A lovely design giving the peaeock's
plumage is of glittering magnifcenee. Then are
shown all the gems known. The star of the jewel
is cats-eye, encireled with rubies The bota-
MIST in costly ornaments, is charmingly presented
The offerings are exquisitely beautiful; there are
pansies in turquoises and in sapphires with the
dew of diamonds thick upon them There are
leaves of clover in green gold and clusters of rose
buds, in which the leaves are of diamonds and the
hearts Of the buds are different colored pearls,
pinks, yellow, and white.
Onlbre is the keynote of the new STYLES
in bonnet colors well as dress goods To grade
color from the faintest tint through all its bril-
liant tones to the deepest shade is the distinctive
marks of most new materials used in millinery
The South American condor. the huge Yulture that
feeds on the carbon of the Andes, furnishes the
new color called condor. Straw colors, condor
cOlors, which are in shades OF gold and tan
brown, and take the place of old gold. and tints
of the yellow canary, are all extensively used.
Bright grenat shades of coral, dull iron reds Van
dyke red, tints ofpale pink and pale blue are all
seen on new French bonnets Some Of the most
wonderful shading is seen in the condor eolors,
where tint is taken up and graded, brilliant
tone accented here and there, till the shading be-
comes gorgeous harmony in gold color red, and
other shades are similarly graded.