The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-04-07
FRESH FssaEes HINTS.

Flounces are wider.
Moires will remain in favor
Spanish lace grenadines are new.
Sun-satin is a new glossy woolen stuff.
Gros- grained silks are again in their glory
Erass ball buttons are used for flannel
suits.
Metal buttans have Watteau scenes upon
them.
Raw silk in artist, colors is offered for
spring dresses.
Transparent sleeves of lace or of boads
rem II in favor.
Marie Antoinette styles will prevail in
spring costumes.
Chevlot cloalss for children are imperfect
for the spring.
Rep effects are very noticeable among
new spring silks.
Embroidery aud MORE trim the black
cashmere dresses.
Dotted and plain mulls are both brought
out again this season.
Bayadere stripes are imported for trim
ming self-colored dresses.
New cotton satines are imported in box
es, with a fan and parasol to match.
Embroidered kid bodices, tabliers AMI
panels trim Paris cashmere dresses.
Foulades are shown in exquisite patterns
and will be very popular this season.
Kilt plaitings and tucks in ciustars, shiT~
rings and puits all appear on spring cos
tunes.
A war between large and small hats RACES
in Paris. The largest hats are worn liz
| London.
| Buttored gloves are sold at half price be-
| cause those with closed wrists are r;or =
! fashionable Colored satin ribbon bows ara
worn at the throat with Byron collar@.
made of lace and insertion.
Ladies who have founces of fine old LACE
form them into paniers dresses of satir
noire or any of the. gauzy tissues now worn,
| Bridal wells are of tulle and mnst be. three
and half yards long, covering the face is
| front and hanging almost to the bottom OF
| the train.
Polka dots as large as a half a dollar arc
seen in the late style Of goods, but material
! with smaller dots are, however, the moa5
sought after.
Neclslets of fresh orange blossoms worn
with heart OF square-shaped neck OPEN
| ing have tasteful effect on bridal robes,
and are much admired.
Pretty little slips of pale blue and pink
batiste and ginghams are the first suits for
children's wear. They are trimmed with
white Hamburg embroideries.
The early spring costumes, polonaises or
basaues with oversklrSs worn above under
skirts of inch-wiflc black and white stripes
in satin and velvet.
! Satora is the name for new Americans
mourning silk of fine quality, worn Ill bas-
ket patterns in imitation of the French
rhaidmes; but the American s,oods ...e softer
and finer than the French AMI have u
better body at the same price, S2 so IA yard.
New lace collars for dressy wear are mads
up in the Dauphin, Robespierre, Roi de
Rome, Stuart, Girondin, or Charles Ii style,
according to fancy, and are all equally FASH
;onable, the essential point being that they
shall be very large. These shapes are par
ticularly becoming to slender ladies'.
A handsome design recently brought out
in fine tablecleths is quite novelty il,
housekeeping requisites. Tbs material y
China satin, beautifully adorned with
appliqued linen flowers. Napkins foldest
ike a cravat and fastened together with a
fancy pin, have been introduced at R.risiar
grand dinners.
i Spring bonnets are to be found in light
weight velvets, silks, surahs, satins. grapes
and laces, but very few such are yet
: shown, the earlier specimens being of Tus-
can, Milan, English and satin srraws, AMI
Par anas garnished in every conceivable
manner, with ribbons, laces, plumes. aigret
tes, feathers and flowers, in combinatio1
! with grapes ana Y lsets.