The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-03-21
FASHION NOTES.

sizes.
New English straws come in every
shade Of color.
Partisan women wear only small erin
Diets and bustles.
The new linen lawns are printed in
the satteen designs of the season.
New millinery goods are very bright
with color and metallic effects.
The hustle of crinolet is not adopted
By the masses of English women.
Yellow corsage bows give the requis-
lite dash of warm color to sober suit.
Some Of the new goods have palm
leaf designs six inches or more in length.
The pleated skirts with velvet ribbon
borders are on nearly all spring suits.
Orange, fame, dafodil, wall flower,
and all yellow shades are in high favor
White muslin dresses have the skirts
| covered with wide founces of embroid-
cry.
| Gloves Of silk and Lisle thread come
in all lengths and colors to match the
new goods.
The new black grenadines show Span
ish lace effects in the designs OF guipure
grounds
Plaids in subdued colors are made for
travelling dresses or for morning wear in
the house.
Coaching umbrellas come with short
club-liSe handles that look heavy, but
are really light.
New Raglans arc given boufant po-
lonais effect in the back by the looping
Of the drapery.
Gold braid, gold cord, and gold effects
in millinery goods are feature in spring
hats and bonnets.
Among the designs in the ne = satteens
are red and green pepper (capsicum)
pods, with foliage and stems.
Gloves and stockings are worn to
match with evening toilets. The brown
tans-not redish shades-still prevail
Embroidered costumes Of black cash
mere will be still more dressy with trim
mings of the new soutache laces.
Amber ornaments are on the new
spring bonnets, in the shape of balls, pins
with round heads, slides, hair-pins and
half-moons.
A Valentine, Christmas or Easter card
Of two or three folds makes the prettiest
kind of a screen for little girls doll
house.
Large palm-leaf patterns appear in in
volved designs, covering the entire sur
face of new cashmere brooches of the
finest quality.
Hand-run Andalusian lace with figures
as heavy as those of embroidery, is the
fashionable garniture for black Ottoman
silk dresses.
Corn flower and royal French blue,
orange, fame and gold yellow, OK blood,
and cardinal red crop out in most Of the
new fabrics.
The pepper-pod designs on the new
satteens come in all stages Of coloring as
suEed by the fruit Of this plant, from
the green pepper to the full red.
Cashmere figured stufs, especially
those with palm leaves, remain in favor
for elegant spring wraps for the car
riage, and evening costumes for the thea
| ire.
New parasols of black satin, having
one or two black Spanish lace fiounces
are varied with single or double fringes
of gold bullion between the lace falls.
| Cat-tails, reeds and swamp grasses
trim the wicker basket hats that are al
ready imported for summer use. Heads
of wheat are made into bows for such
hats.
The new silks and satins that come in
broche patterns show prevalence of
Oriental harmonies Of color, frightened
with flame, orange, and mandarin yellow,
in vanishing effect.
The shapes Of new bonnets are not
materially different from those of last
season, but the leading millinery open.
ings which occur just before Easter, will
no doubt reveal many novelties.