Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-26
FASHION WRINKLES.


colors.
The masculine style of dress for women
is at at an end.
Feathers trim ball dresses, but flowers
seem to be preferred.
New brooches have an open frame
work around medal
The London witch Is new form OF
poke boanet seen in New York.
Domlnos of all colors, especially red,
are in high favor for fancy parties.
No chip hats and bonnets appear as yet
among importations of spring millinery.
NThe passion flower is favorite design
in printed sateens, percales and cambrics.
The prettiest of all the darned
laces are those called Oriental or Maur-
esque.
Small and large figures and flowers
are equally fashionable IN dress
goods.
Straw hats and bonnets will be worn
almost to the exclusion Of chip this
spring.
A wreath of roses around the bottom
of the skirt of dancing dress is very
pretty.
MORE Pekin in narrow stripes of
satin on a MORE surface is pretty
novelty.
The new cambrics come in similar
colors and patterns to the percales and
sateens.
The new batistes follow the collorings
and designs OF the new sateens and
percales.
Many small capote bonnets are seen
among the first openings Of spring
millinery.
The demand for machine made lace
for muslin evening dresses can hardly be
supplied.
The new cotton printed stuffs, sateens
and percales are used more than silk for
fancy costumes.
Pure white, without any yellow or ecru
tinge, will be more fashionable than the
creams and ecrus.
Swans down and ostrich tips are COM
bined to form the trimming OF many
handsome opera clOaks.
The large-fowered and large-fgured
sateens will be utilized during the fancy
ball season as dominoes.
New MORE silks have large satin flow
ers on MORE ground, or vice versa,
MORE flowers on satin ground:
GRAY pink, or ashes of rose, with more
rose than ashes in the combination, ap-
pears among the new aesthetic colors.
Flowers as large as life, sometimes
larger. and in the most vivid colors, ap-
pear on the grounds of some of the new
sateens.
The new colors are copied from natures
own tints in foliage and flowers, are by
no means confined to sickly greens and
dirty yellows.
Some of the street costumes on the
Pennsylvania avenue promenade have
been very "stunning'' on the pleasant
afternoons this week.
Some Of the new sateens have grounds
in all shades of color, white and black,
over which are flying flocks of large
birds, carrier pigeons, falcons and swal-
lows.
A novelty in ornaments for evening
| wear is flowers of gold, silver or steel fila
gree. They are worn in the hair, on the
corsage, and looping the sash or skirt
| draperles.
| Furniture coverings, etc., are being
| made in handsome patterns in ramie
| goods. Indeed, ramie in the manufac-
tured state can scarcely be distinguished
| from linen.
Burang lace comes IN clusters of large
dots embroidered in satin stitch on a
stroug silk net. The edges are formed
| of clustered dots or button-hOle stitched
scallops or points.
Some beautiful plush goods, elaborate
embroidery almost covering the plush,
are in the market for sofa cushions.
Sometimes tables are covered with the
same elegant goods.
According to Harper's Bazaar, Spanish
and Japanese costumes and the French
and American dress Of the latter part OF
the last century are the most popular
dresses for fancy balls.
In Paris young girls do not wear low
necked dresses even to balls. Sometimes
the bodice is open in a square, an oval or
in triangular shape in front, while the
shoulders are generally covered.
| Some of the new dress cashmeres are
plaided or barred in almost invisible lines
of a lighter shade than the ground color;
| for instance, bottle green with hunters
| green, aud dark bronze with gray bronze.
I =
A foreign novelty is a bodice of I'M
glazed kid or deer skins, either plain or
| embroidered, perfectly moulding the
figure. Titled ladies have their crest and
arms embroidered upon the left side OF
| the bodice.
Pink, with decided tint, that known
as 'sshrimp pink is much in favor for
evening bonnets and for facings. 1t is
specially liked in connection with bon
nets or hats of bronze green, dark green
| or dark blue.
Here are some of the colors of the
solid sateens for skirts: Shades of blue,
from water to navy; red, from pale rose
to deep crimson and bright scarlet; pur-
pie, from violet to mauve; olives, yellows
and browns.
Ribbed plush, in wide shaded stripes of
tive colors, is employed for making up
very comfortable as we'll as elegant pei
lisses and visites, but the stripes should
be chases of quiet and not too markedly
contrasting colors.
You do not have to 60 away from
Washington to get what you want. The
leading dry goods; lace, and glove and
hosiery houses here have the latest and
best, and at prices as low, If not lower,
than in New York.
The liveliest and purest shades of rose,
pink, blue, ,mauve, maize, and other light