Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-03-25
New York Fashions.
NEW BONNETs-sPRING MATERIALs-COS
TUMEs-PARASOLS.

Correspondence OF the Staunt0n vINDlcATokI
NEW YORK, March 20.
Asa finish upon the new bonnet, moth
ing 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 be crocodile or ele-
plant mutely staring from beds Of Mech
I'm or Spanish lace or folds of soft Surah
silk. Bugs too, are in high rerute and
rival the spider family and in both, we
find young and old, big and little, crowd
ing on our astonished vision. Coming to
the bonnet itself, the first requisite we OBJ
serve to be yellowness. White straw is an
though the latter Goes appear to limited
extent. Porcupine straws have suppressed
ed the rough and ready for general wear.
being so called because the straw is woven
in sharp projections over the suryace.
Here the all pervading yellow is conspicu-
Gus, but glimmering through the uprisin
stfaws we see ground works of some dark
er shade such as garnet, deep bl e, etc
Higher grades are in Tuscan, Belgian
/ Leghorn or panama while of open wori
there is every imaginable and unimagina
BILE variety.
COTTAGES AND POKES.
The piles of cottage shapes which load
importers counters are good evidence that
they will be worn extensively, but there
are poke bonnets not few. Hats are less
conservative in form and here there are
wide brims caught fancifully, other brims
woven in fanciful turnings as well as the
the sober, standard English walking hat.
But as rule, the open work bonnets are
small while faring 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 excep-
tons, we see come quite narrow, between
the two, all diversities being observable
None the less new and notable are the
striped or plaided ribbons. Here wide
range of novelties opens up before us; ex
tended as the kingdom of plaids and
stripes in dress goods and silks. In flow
ers. che production of shading is the first
thought and every other consideration is
subordinate thereto. Thus in all the new
sprays there is a gradual ascension from
dark to light or vice versd. Medium o,
small sized flowers are grouped together
in sprays or garlands; in the first named
the heavier portion is in deep shade, in
sensibly growing paler as the ends are
reached while in the latter there are alter
nations of color throughout. Often two
similar sprays are connected in the middle
by an ornament and both shade away to-
wards the ends. A favorite idea is to
mass small flowers in circular mounds
with aigrette emerging from the centre
and these too are prettily shaded.
PLAIDs AND STRIPES.
A striped and plaided madness will soor
seize upon the fashionable world. Look
at the shop windows and you see signs OF
the coming infection. Piles upon piles of
plaids; piles upon piles of stripes. Go IL
and survey the counters; over and over
again they greet you. The new light wool
ems are so wrought; silks likewise, and as
for ginghams, they descend like shove,
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 marked aversion to
such as are broad. The effect of broad
stripes however, is often produced by as
semblages of narrow ones massed toge tb-
or with wide interval between. They rul
both lengthwise and in bayadere style, bu
the latter, instead of being draped across.
will be often arranged in detached plait-
ings and placed about at intervals on cos
tunes of plain goods; for Of course there
must be plain material to combine at least
50 far as silks and woolens go. But ging-
hams and cotton satines in Powered de-
signs (of which large quantities are i'm
ported) will be trimmed with Cash's en-
broideries that are now brought out to
match. These embroideries ate woven in
all manner of pretty bingham bars or flo-
raj patterns, with edges Of colored en-
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pretty. There is indeed a rush for them,
not only as trimming for ladies' dresses,
but for children's, since their fneness of
texture and fast coloring, makes them es-
pecially adapted to the wants of juveniles.
COSTUMES.
The Pilgrimage suit is quite new, and
consists of good walking skirt, trimmed
with 1ounce and arranged in clustered
plaits, polonaise with fiat Vatican
plat which forms the drapery in the back
Of the skirt and cape with a collar
and lacinR with cords In the back and
on the shoulders. The drapery across
the front is separate from the polonaise,
and may be of contrasting material IS
may also the clustered plaits in the flounce.
But the whole can be made of plain
material, such as flannel, serge, etc. Over
skirts will be still in favor, especially in
woolens and cottons. and here a graceful
design is the Latella, composed of a long
tablier, draped in gathers at the sides and
rather bouffant drapery at the back
The Imogen is new waist with surplice
drapery in front, shirred back and plated
basque skirt, having as a foundation an
ordinary, tight-ftting waist, and while
adapted to any material, it is specially
suitable for light summer fabrics. The
Perdita is neat and we'll fitting basque
for Spring woolens, trimmed with folds on
the back and sides and the back pieces
separated below the waist and disclosing |
fan plating. New costumes are beauti- |
fully shaded, that is to say, the material |
IL like ribbons in millinery woven in
graduated tones of color; one side of the |