Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-03-18


SCARLET Is still fashionable.
RATS TAIL CHENILLE is a new fringe.
PALE ROSE is the newest evening color.
DREssaAKERs decry esthetic dressmaking.
The NEWEST CoAr SLEEVES are full at the
top.
FIcHUs, jabots and large coIarettes grow in
popularity.
NONE but very pretty women can afford to
wear very plain hair.
NAVY BLUE and scarlet are a favorite combi-
nation for young girls suits -
The PRESENT fashion demands that young
girls shall be simply dressed.
Box-PLATTINGs are superseding dat-plaitings
and killings as dress trimming.
No POSITIVE STYLES win be announced by
dressrnakers and milliners until Easter.
LENGTHwIsE TUCKs In the upper breadths of
overskirts appear in many silk costumes.
STRAwBERRY-RED and copper-red polka dots
are seen upon new black satin fabrics.
MANY MORE straw bonnets of dark colors are
seen than of white or yellow tinted braids.
WAR between large and small hats RACES in
Paris. The largest hats are worn in London.
KILT PLATED skirts and short tabliers ar
ranged en- panier around the hips are much
worn.
READ the fresh spring advertisements Of the
new goods of the Washington merchants in to-
days STAR.
GREGADINE LACE for trimming grenadines
comes with designs to match the broche flowers
OF the grenadine.
POINTED Y-shaped waistcoats appear on i'm
ported costumes. The point OF the v is at or
near the waist line.
EMBROIDERED BANDS edge the parts of many
handsome costumes wherever q band OF trim
ming can be applied.
ALL BLUES. from porcelain and navy to gray
blue or greyhound, and sky to water blue are
found in new veilings-
ALL FASHIONABLE coiffeures are arranged low
In the back. In front they are waved or crimped
but close to the head.
LOVELY AND USEFUL bath robes are made of
a single fine blanket The stripes trim the bot
tom, collar and sleeves.
UNDERsKIRTs of plain material will be much
worn with over-dresses and basque bodies OF
Powered and figured stuffs.
Rose is the favOrite color for the solid-cOlOred
ginghams or zephyrs that come with Open-work
embroidery bands on the selvages.
LADIES WHO HAVE fOunces of fine old lace
form them into paniers on dresses of satin MORE
or any Of the gauzy tissues now worn.
BURANO is the coming lace. 1t is embroidered
in large, round dots with silk floss, on strong
but sheen silk reseau Of Brussels net.
SOME of the summer silks, lousines and taffe-
tas, are in very narrow stripes, with invisible
cross-bars under the longitudinal lines.
COTTON SATEENS and light alpaca are fire.
quently used by economical dressmakers for the
foundation skirt of silk and yelling dresses.
PLAIN. tight-ftting bOdices, full panier or
tablier draperies. and much trimmed skirts are
the rule for spring suits of light wooden stuffS.
VERY stylish spring walking costumes are
shown, made of olive, gold, and bronze cheviots,
trimmed with facings and pipings of Japanese
red.
ROSEBUDs, fOrget-me-nots daisies and bluets
In tiny designs are fayorite flowers among the
patterns found on spring satteens, percales and
foulards.
AT RECENT ball given at Delmonico's the
majority of the young ladies wore black dresses
with very short sleeves and very long black
gloves.
EFFORTS are made in Paris, as well as Lon
don. to Introduce the fashion of wearing the
hair short and arranged i'm small, flat, round
curis, In the style of the first French republic.
EXTREMELY lOng-skirted, tailor-made coats
are to be much worn this spring. Many of the
new models have wide revers turning back from
the front of the skirts. these being faced usually
with satin.
NEW AMERICAN PRINTS are so finely finished,
DO well colOred, and so artistically designed as
to verify our prediction that they will in the
early future drive printed cotton foreign goods
out OF our markets.
THE FRONTS of some of the new street basoues
for spring are made after the style of Camargo
bodice the sides being caught up pannier-wise,
and the plated ends fastened underneath the
breadths at the back.
CHENIsETTEs of striped or dotted percale are
very fashionable for morning wear. They have
. double-breasted 'front.' fastened with gold but
tons. and English turnover collar, with cuffs
and buttons to match.
Masculine night shirts are of barred MAIN
sock muslin with narrow bias stripes Of printed
shifting stitched on the bosom, the pocket, COL
lar and cuffs. The figures on the printed stripes
are small horseshOes, dots, crescents and stars.
SOME exceedingly pretty spring dresses Of
Pale gray and fawn-colored repped silk are
effectively frightened with deep collars and
cuffs, sashes. and other accessories of Bayadere
striped satin In eOlOrs of royal blue and gold,
olive and silver, peacock blue, garnet and ruby.
ANUMBER of very beautiful demi-traned dan
cling toilets for the easter season are being pre-
pared by New York house, made of silver and
white and pink and silver brocades. These
dresses are made up over white satin petit
coats, adorned with silver, crystal, and chenille
embrOlderies and frnges.
A RECEPTION dress in New York is Of white
striped moire and white velvet brocade confec-
sou, dlmutu With Iuu spanish lace beaded
with pearl beads The train of MORE and brocade
is seventy inches in length. The draperies are
Topped across the low corsage with artificial
tiger-lilies. double anticipated ruffle trims
the skirt and train.
AMONG new spring millinery garnitur are
crown pieces Of gold or silver lace, in old vene-
tian designs, with lace edgings to correspond
for borderings or face trimmings. These lace
pieces are very choice. and are to be laid over
foundations of rich-hued May velvet for spring
bonnets. and over bonnets of pa,e-tinted satin
during the summer season.
The LATEST Partisan caprice in gloves are
kids. undressed or dressed. of pale pink. lust
the shade Of the flowers OF the ground laurel.
They are immensely long. and worn only in the
evening with almost sleeveless toilets 1t is
scarcely possible by gasllght to tell where the
gloves end, as they are SO near the color Of the
flesh when worn BY blonde.
WHITE BArIsTE AND WHITE Saline will be
much more fashionable for summer toilets than
white Victoria lawn. Suits Of these materials
will be made up in Vatican style. trimmed with
RULES and bands OF Swiss or Madeira ensbroid-