Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-03-07
SPRING FASHIONS.

COLLARS of Chenille marabout are
worn with street suits.
SOME of the dress patterns in batiste
are embroidered in bright colors.
CASHMERE Jackets complete costumes
of ribbed ottoman silk and velvet.
In place of the invisible hair-net,
white tulle is used to keep obstinate
locks in place.
DEAD leaf brown is a new shade
which has as yet only appeared in the
finest cashmeres.
NEWMARKET jackets and medium
length pelisses will be the leading
wraps for spring.
PELERINEs and shoulder capes OF
varied lengths and styles are to be in
greater favor than ever.
LONG casaques of velvet with open
pagoda sleeves complete the newest
cloth suits; shoulder cape is added for
the street.
CRINKIED Japanese silk is made into
large square neckerchiefs, which are
folded three-c corner shawl shape and
worn with house toilets.
New hats for feminine heads are
trimmed with military looking pompons,
aigrettes and short, fancy looking ostrich
tips that nod at you continually.
SPRING goods include pongees on
which are worked large figures of flow
ers and fruit. Some of the fruit is not
to be found in nature, and the flowers
are of kind unknown to florists.
New balmoral skirts have two Or three
steels inserted In the back widths to
form tonrnure. Moreen balmorals are
gored perfectly plain from side to side,
and the black breadth has two thick box
plaits tied back to make them very full.
SKIRTS, killed or box-plaited half
their length, or more, are quite as fash
ionable as eve. These trimmings,
although simple in effect, take a large
quantity of material, and for this rea-
son, perhaps, have never become COM
mon.
OvERsKIRTs on imported dresses for
| spring have deep square apron reach
| ing almost to the lower hounces of the
undersklrt, and have very few wrinkles
across them. Passementerie cords with
a tassel on each end are arranged on the
| back of basques and occasionally on
side panels of heavy dresses.
YOUNG ladies with low, well-shaped
foreheads turn their hair back all around
IN loose waves, with here and there a
| curl; they may also wear side parting
If the hair grows prettily on the nape of
the neck, it is carried up high and wound
| around IN Psyche form and fastened by
a small ornamental comb of Rhine
stones or of shell.
SHEER wooden dress goods, so fine as
to be gauze-llke in effect, are shown in
an almost endless variety. The veilings,
that sheer fabric of plain wear like old
fashioned delaine, will again be worn.
We have the 'Chibet yelling, plain veil
ing, and the religious or nuns yelling.
The last is almost as cheer and fine as
tissue, while the other varieties of this
popular dress goods are heavier.
GENOA velveteen in dark ruby, deep
wood green, or seal brown, makes very
serviceable and stylish spring suits for
children, the most effective costume 8
being those having killed skirts wit b
panels lined and piped with gray plaid
sulah. The tiny babet coat opens over
an inner waistcoat of the surah, and tn e
outside jacket is trimmed with very mar
row bands of fur, with Glengarry cap to
match. These suits can be comfortably
worn until June.
New spring bonnets for evening wear
are in the Valois style, with soft crowns
and shirred brims. Many of them are
made of delicately-tinted yelyets, like
pale pink or mauve, with torsades and
bows of Ottoman silk, run through with
jewel-headed pins. Others are made of
cream-hued satin, wreathed with peach
blossoms, arbutus buds and leaves, or
spring violets mingled with cream lace,
tinted in the center of each scallop with
delicate hue matching the flowers of
| the wreath.