Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-14
Price Four Cents.

straw, flower trimmed. Already are milliners | preparing daintiest daisy vreaths to encircle | youthful faces. Snowdrops and violets are already on the list of possibilities of wear for | those who admit only the counterfeit present l ment of such flowers as are in season to be 1 suitable for the decoration of their persons. | Buttercups and cowslps will soon be avaiIa- | ble and following upon them such an abun- dant variety of lovely blossoms as may well make it difficult to choose. The Swedish mousquetaire still reigns and IS to reign, and 1 those who take their walks abroad in fashion able places may still witness the anomaly of an otherwise immaculate fresh toilet accom-
 panied by gloves that an hours wear has suf-
 feed to rob forever of their pristine purity. Cotton is coming into its kingdom again. The last two seasons have witnessed the
 spotheosis of this once-despised texture. No
 designs are now considered too beautiful to
 be applied to satteens and linens which might
 be regarded as parvenus among the silks and
 velvets of good society were it not that the freshness and simplicity which especially characterize them are the very charms which the inevitable self-con sciousness of 9 par venu most efectually destroys In few weeks we shall see hundreds of cotton gowns made with every variety of futing, frilling, ruching and hOuncing smothered in lace and shining with ribbons. Blue, amber. mauve, cream-color and russet will fash past us in turns; but ''where are the snOEs of yester- year:' Where are the pink ginghams Will they again assail aching vision in their varied tints, from tenderest hue of palest apple-blossom down to the unmitiga- ted rosy glare of the deepest coral pink: No; pink gingham is probably played out. Had only young and pretty girls worn pink it might have enjoyed long lease of popu- larity; but did we not see the wide rotundity of fat old women enwrapped in it: Did not scraggv maiden ladies envelop their angulari- ties in it
 The world is. however. to see plenty of pink in the evening. It Is promised such Ioveliness of evening dress such 8 wealth of flowers and jewels, such 8 subtle mingling of richest tints as it never dreamed of. Add to this that the textures are to be of a refine ment unexampled in the history of manu- factures, and we may anticipate seeing beauty go beautifully" under the soft enChgntment of artificial light never beauty went be- fore. Palest pink satins streEed with blossoms of the most delicate blue and blonde. Brocades initiated from the old fashioned and elaborate ones that graced the Court of Louis XVI. and adorned the fair and unfor- tunate person of Marie Antoinette are more than ever in demand. One of these was worn at our Queens first drawing room, the mingling of colors in which made 1t the ad- miration of all who saw 1t. The design was quite rOcoco and consisted of dwarf roses, lilies of-the-valley and forget me nOts in their natural cOlors thrown upon ground of flesh color. Others have large blossoms and large leaves-such, for instance, es maize damask with great brown roses and foliage raised upon the surface, or sage green satin with honeysuckle blooms embroidered in chenille and the leaves and tendTils in satin The lavish use of flowers, especially roses. adds fresh charm to evening dress These are no longer real blooms, as they were two seasons ago. The limitations, however, are so beautifully made that it would need the unerring instinct of the bees themselves to help us to a decision between the artificial and the true. I he skirts of evening dresses are now to be hemmed with roses-fashion or dainipg that such skirts are to be tight scsnt and untrimmed save for 8 rampant ruche or lordly hem of regal blossoms round the edge What blonde would not dream O nights Of such dress as pale blue satin with great ruche of white tulle sown thickly with tea roses? What dark-eyed nut brown maid would not covet gown of amber satin hem med with lilies and reed-like grasses, and with epaulettes of the same lovely flowers: These epaulettes are worn either in flowers or jewels on evening dress. and are beginning to appear in substantial materials on morning dress from which we may infer that square shoulders are still to be fashionable on femi- nine figures, though square waists are disaP- proved of.