Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-05-31
FASHIONABLE FANCIES.

RUCHEs outrivaI ruf1es orplaitings for
dress trimmings.
SHOT and changeable silks are once
more in high favor.
FLOWERS are extravagantly used for
hat and bonnet trimmings.
LACE frills are worn around the neck
and wrists as much as ever.
TURNOVER collars, with fancy neck
ribbons, are very fashionable.
LARGE sagging puffs form the paniers
of many new model costumes.
The proper thing in buttons will be
imitation of berries. The bride of Prince
Leopold, on her travelling dress, wore
golden blackberries.
BRoCADED Grape is one of the most
elegant materials for handsome black
dresses. 1t is combined with MORE and
trimmed with Spanish lace. Light tinted
grapes are trimmed with ficelle lace or
ecru embroidery.
SOME of the handsomest parasols are
of checked MORE covered with chine
flowers, others of plain silk have two
inch bands of tiny impian plumes, robin
feathers or humming birds breasts, bor-
dering the outside, about an inch from
the edge.
The most startling parasols exhibited
thus far are those of vermilion satin,
lined with old gold silk and trimmed
with double ruffies of wide gold lace.
The ferrules are surrounded by wreath
of brilliant scarlet roses, mixed with
small yellow sunfowers.
fo,,IoY.Jo roo1-o
dresses for school girls best dresses. A
pretty dress of cream foulard strewn
with navy blue dot is shirred In the
shape of a yoke, shirred again at the
waist, and finished at the neck and
sleeves with ruf1es of Oriental lace.
CADET or army blue is no longer worn
by exclusive ladies, though it is still
popular for children. II is and always
was too conspicuous color, and has now
become too common. This peculiar,
lapis-l azuh color is becoming to few
women and can be well worn only by
the Celtic type-women with fair skin,
blue eyes and black hair.
| ANexcellent model for stylish French
walking dress is of navy blue cashmere,
| draped over an underskirt of checked
/ slim ulo uuOCI uICSS
be a kilt, falling over a narrow Killed
| fouDce at the bottom, in stimulation of a
double-kilted skirt. The rest of the
dress is of plaid, but the collar and cuffs
are OF dark blue velvet, covered with
| Ilish point lace or Venetian embroidery
in full, rich pattern.
BESIDES the Easement or square
opening In the neck of the dress bodice,
and the lyre-shape opening and the
bodice cut e1a c9ur or heart-shape, there
is yet another variety of bodice that is
called oeiL d@ rod, which is fastened to-
gether at the throat, but opens widely
just below it i'll triangular shape. In
every instance, however, the opening,
whatever its shape, is invariably yelled
with soft folds of lace or tulle.
PRETTY dresses for children are made
of cadet blue cancels hair, combined
with dark cardinal. The jacket is Of
cadet blue with blouse vest of cardinal
fastened by small metal buttons of REQ
metal. A cuff Of cardinal, ornamented
wi,n bali buttons, finishes the sleeves.
The skirt of the dress is formed Of box
pIeatings of cadet blue, separated by re-
versed box pleats of cardinal. The
jacket falls in square position over the
back, where 1t is ornamented with car
dinal sash. Solid colored stockings Of
cadet blue or cardinal are worn with this
dress.