Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-20
SPRING STYLES.
Flowers Takming a Conspicuous Place in the
Adornment OF Everything.
a LA MILlTAIR


What with buttons and braids and
braids and buttons, our ladies will car
ry on warfare that will cause to quake
the most military heart. Small bullet
shaped buttons arc very fashionable.
and an instinct of nature points to a
combination with braids which are run
in rows around edges, up the fronts of
costumes and in epaulets on shoulders.
Again, these pretty pointings, (for in
deed such stylish buttons are little
more,) are bestowed in military rows,
lllumining outfits of plain goods and
forming substitutes for brocade. Metal
is in high favor for buttons of all kinds
and is colored in contrast or to match.
Other buttons-are of medium size, but
fashion has taken wide leap from the
very large ones; they are dead, if not
forgotten, and great rush is made for
their diminutiye successors. Fringes
are brought out to suit new fabrics,
both silken and of jet. Stirring i. ex-
tremely fashionable, and plaitings still
live. In ways of making, however,
there is a marked absence of novelty.
Nothing is really new in design, and, as
formerly, we shall have basques, trim
med skirts, overskirts and of polonaises
quite tribe. Not few
NEW WOODS
are covered with small sized birds or
animals heads. In France, and else
where on the other side the entirety is
portrayed, but here, as yet, the homely
phiz of poor Tray, the pensive counte-
nance of an owl or the classic profile of
a chanticleer suffices. Other woods
show very large inwrought floral pat
terms, set very far apart, while change
is given by moons, intersecting rings or
mathematical bodies, colors being
either quite pronounced or the reverse
Pretty outfits in wash fabrics are check
ed or striped, and here the Cash en-
broideries woven in colored stripes or
chequer board designs, are chosen as
finish. The colors are perfectly fast,
and fine cord on one side is made to
draw up, so that they are easily sewn
on. Perhaps, too, this may be the rea-
son that the white frillings are again
being used on undertaking. Cash's
woven initial letters for marking have
also proved great success. No won
uNis SlHSC tuSN ltHtNt us lTOl1 luat
dreadful old ink bottle; the price, fur
thermore, being so low as to come with
in everybody's means. This year they
are brought out in navy blue as well as
Turkey red. Both wash perfectly; and
SO popular has this style of marking be-
come that ladies frequently have the
entire name made to order
PARASOLs.
As sign of the prevalence of shiring.
we notice the new parasols provided
with a shirred rufile that is often ended
by lace. From eight TO ten ribs are
seen and materials. of course, follow
dress goods, for the parasol of late years
has steadily risen in Importance, and is
a notable partiof the outfit. Then. too,
as flowers are extremely fashionable,
behold finish given the coming para
sol, by an artificial bonquet set in a
silken bow Mt the top. Ihis, of course
can be remedied if one shouldNthink it
too gay, but ladies in general will find no
little amusement in changing these
flowers at will. Sun umbrellas are
strikingly attractive, because made of
double faced satin, where frequently
effective contrasts are noticeable.