Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-03-04

TINTED BATISTES are worn.
PINK and pale chocolate combine.
NEW BEIGEs are beautifully striped.
CRIMSON PLUSH opera cloaks are worn.
COPPER BUTTONS are worn on copper-cOlOred
cloth dresses.
PIAIDED and striped white null muslins will
be much worn.
TINTED MILLS will not be so fashionable as
cream and white.
DOTTED and plain mulls are both brought out
again this season
MARIE ANTOINErTE STYLES will prevail in
spring costumes.
SPANISH LACE Is dyed in many shades to
match spring goods.
ROUND or oval fans and screens of peacOcks
feather are in favor
WOLFE VIRsINIE is lovely crapy form of the
fayorte nuns yelling.
FHAGREE SILVER BUTTONS in bullet shape are
used on dark costumes
GREEN SERPENTs, made Of plush are on new
bOnnets and on dress sleeves.
PLAIN GOODS are used for basques with stripes
or borders for the skirts.
ALMOND-COLORED visites of camels hair are
worn on bright, sunny days
EMBROIDERED kid bodices, tablers and panels
trim Paris cashmere dresses.
StlioN, WITH UEOWU. Is u WISH CON-
bInatiOn for dresses and bOnnets.
WHITE chuddlah dresses for the house are made
I'm tailor fashions-simple and severe.
LnACs. daffods and Bon Silene roses are
worn on the cOrsages of street suits
A POINTED BODICE. with paniers promises to
be the popular style for spring toilets
KILT peatings andtucksin clusters shirrings,
and puffs all appear on spring costumes.
DARK STRAW HATS. with gloves and hosiery
to match. are announced for next summer
THE fine hand-tucked shirt fronts on night
gowns are preferred to any other trimming.
The large poke PUNISHABLE and DirectOire
bonnets will be worn tip tilted far forward on
the head.
MANUFACTURERS are making purer silks Of
better and softer texture and finish this season
than for years.
TAN, chaudrOn or copper shades and buff, are
the leading cOlors in gentlemens kid, gOat-skin
and chevrette gloves.
In SPRING COSTUMES there is tendency to
use lengthwise tucks in clusters in the place of
Kilt pleatings and shirrngs.
NEW LACE EMBROIDERY initiates old Vene-
tian point admirably. 1t is found upon the
selyages of nuns yeings.
THE SAcorE CHEMIsE embroidered front and
V-shaped back and front, remains the favorte
with those who wear French lingerie.
WHITE SATIN EVENING DRESSES are the fancy
OF the passing moment. but it takes a really
handsome woman to become such dress, even
by artificial light.
BLACK, blue and lemon-cOOred pocket hand
kerchieis OF sheer inen embroidered with con-
frasting colors, are among the eccentric novel
ties lately imported.
PETTICOATs are profusely trimmed with nee
dework flowers, resembling the neelle-wrought
bands that border the new nun yengs Ciny-
hams and batistes.
PRETTY little slips of pale blue and pink
batlste and ginghams the first suits for chill
drens wear. They are trimmed with white
Hamburg embroiderieS.
The shapes of the best English round hats are
limitations from old portraits by Sir Joshua Rev
noids. Sir Peter Lely, Yandyke, Rubens, and
other famous painters.
The CHEvIOTs of the coming season show
heather mixtures with checked. barred and
striped effects between delicate broken lines of
Ted. yellow or sapphire blue.
The EARLY SPRING COSTUMES will be black
MORE polonaises or basques with Overskirts
worn above underskirts of inch-wide black and
White stripes in satin and velvet.
BAsoUEs for early spring wear are still made
to extend well over the hips presenting a very
bold figure outline This style of model is ONLY
appropriate for correct forms.
The FIRST SPRING WRAPS opened i'm New York
consist of long. medium length and shorter dol
man yIsites in light and dark colored and black
Cloths, English walking Jackets and long raglans
The finer French feathers for bonnets have
very long fiues. which are not cured: thev are
not only in tips and plumes of the various tones
Of all colors, but are arranged in ponI-pons and
aigrettes.
The PRINCEssE model is brought out in an
improved style this season: there is a greater
tenderness given to the waist, and the curves
extending over the hips are deeper and POSSIBLY
more gracefully executed.
some of the shades of color in snrinp roods
are pale shrimp. shell pink. water blue. rose
cream, pearl, lavender. heliotrope plum olive
grays. including a blue-gray called ..gray-
hound and dark blues from sapphire to navy
THERE are some rich novelties gwen to the new
decorations for dresses of all kinds. and especi
ally are these transitions noticeable i'm the trim
ming of street toilets The metal wrought laces
that were introduced last June will be revived
with greater beauty.
SATORA is the name for new American mourn
ing SIX OF line quality. woven in basket patterns
In Imitation OF the French readiness; but the
american goods are softer and finer than the
French, and have a better body at the same
price, ~ % a yard.
iHE hotot0 fASSENENTERIES are very effect
i've; the colors are richly blended and the deli
cate shadings Of the seed pearls gives peculiar
and elegant finish to this class Of dress adorD-
ment. Yellow slk galloon in broad patterns is
quite an original style oI garniture
The early impOrtations are profuse with color
Loom industries for the year 1852 surpass all
prior productions in artistic elegance. There is
generous variety given in every department of
dress for next season. BY Easter SUNDAY there
VIII be displayed a wealth OF rare novelties in
personal adjournment
A HANDSOME design recently brought out in
fine tablecioths is quite a novelty in house.
keeping requisites. The material is China satin
beautifully adorned with appqued linen
flowers Napkins folded like "a crayat and
fastened together with fancy PIN have been
introduced at Partisan grand dinners
SPRING BoNNETs are to be found in light
weight yelvets, silks surahs. satins Grapes and
laces. but very few such are yet shown. the
earlier specimens being of Tuscan. Milan, Eng
hsh ana satin straws. and Panamas garnished in
every conceivable manner. with ribbons. iaces.
piuines, aigrettes, feathers and flowers. i'm com