The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-06
Notes on Dress.

Kate Field in Our Continent.
New goods, including carpet, upholstery
tapestries and curtain stufts, show the intluen-
ces Of the English art renaissance.
Shella plush is the latest novelty for uphol
Stery. 1t is a ute or cosmos plush, the same
on both sides, and comes in solid colorS as
we'll as in Oriental designs and color:.
Wash goods and nuns yelling suits for
young girls will be made with full bodies and
wide belts, leg-ofmutton sleeves and gather
cd skirts. This fashion will not he univer-
sal.
The coat bodice is the favorile of the mo-
ment Dressmakers say that fully third Of
the suits ordered are made with trimmed
skirts and coat bodies. Draperies are in va
rous styles, but the killed tlounce, or IounceS,
and short tabcr and high back drapery on
rather narrow gored skirt take precedence
While coat sleeves are more worn than 9TH
ers, they by no means ign alone. leg-of-
mutton and pulled sleeves appear on many
light wooden fabrics, ana those of which the
bodiceis SHRED or full. Many quaint, grace
full sleeves have been invented. 1t remains
to be seen which will be permanently adop-
ted
The new bonnets and hats are mostly Of
English spill and punishable sraws, Milan
Straws and satin porCupine braidS.
The porcupine braids and colored garnet,
bottle green. Havana and other browns,
bronzes' drabS. light and dark blue, old gold.
natural straw and black.
Bonnet and hat shapes are as varied as the
most CapriCiouS can wish The poke, direC-
tory, and capote are, however, the leading
styles in bonnets. Turbans and English walk
ing-hatS compete with broad-brimmed SOM
breros, which may take any name, from the
Gaines-hero' or Rembrandt to the Spanish
Student or the "Cuban Planter" Panama
straw is being revived, probably in compl-
ment to eSseps.
Trimmed bonnets from Paris are covered
with lace generally Oriental or Spanish
flowers, fancy lacctted beads of large size and
eccentaic shapes. There are pompons Of os-
trich feathers and heron cigrettes and ribbons
Of new syle of satin finish gros grain, call
ed '1aille seduisante."
BouretS etteCtc are in the air.
A new millinery trimming, satin parfait,"
is soft lusrous gros grain silk, similar to the
''taillc SediiSane" When cut on the bias for
4 bonnet scarf it looks like the finest satin
surrh
Many of the new poke bonnetS have face
trimmings Ol HONelS, llcSC HbWclS are large
or small TO suit the f'ncy. The brimS Of
many Of the pokes flare upward nj such an
angle as to make these face trimmings a ne
ceSsity.
All sorts of crown, high. low, conical,
squarish, Normandy cap, sloping, round and
oval appear in spring bonnets, while the brims
vary as much as the crowns. They turn up in
front like diadem, turn down al one side or
both, OF behind or in front. or are set obIque-
ly around the crown, like the rings Of Saturn.
Amid all the variety, however, the capotc and
medium poke will prevail, while hats will be
large.
Manila promises to be leading straw. Its
natural soft, sober harmonious color tries the
complexion less than English OF Milan StrawS.
There are many good-looking women who
can wear Manila who would shun white
Italian or English straw as too hard and try
ing to the face.
before buying elsewhere examine the stock