The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-05
FASHION NOTES.

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Colored lace mtts in all the new shades
will be worn in the summer
Styllshly crossed children now weal
lace shoulder eapes instead of collars.
The return to fashion of gros grain:
| and fables has met with universal appro-
baton.
Small mantelettes of cloth are newer
than jackets with tailor made cloth suits.
Humming birds poised on flowers and
lace appear on spring bonnets of straw
and silk.
Pointed stomachers of lace. heads OF
passementerie. trim the pointed basques
of elegant dinner dresses. .
Heavy silks. woven in small matelasse
patterns, will replace to son extent the
plainsottomans Of the past season.
Purple violets and barbes of Valencien-
mes lace trim the fine Milan straw bonnets
designed for elderly ladies.
Rosettes of good braid and smaller
rosettes of narrow red velvet ribbon trim
the wicker bonnets displayed on opening
day
French pelisses of cashmere, or of black
Ottoman silk designed for spring warps,
have narrow plaits down the front and
back, flowing sleeves, and a high pulled
collar
Velvet will be worn TO the latest posi-
bic moment, or until the heated term shall
render it uncomfortable, as it retains, or
rather has increased, its hold on popular
favor.
Fans of tinted ostrich feathers,
mounted on tortoise shells. are still the
height of style for evening dress. They
are oval in shape, and usually have a
brilliantly plumaged bird or cluster
of lilies or roses set in the centre of the
fan.
Yellow, in a score of tints. ranging
from dalfodil and primrose to citron yell
low of a greenish tint, is color that is
now exceedingly fashionable in every sort
of dress fabric, bonnet material and
garniture, and in house adjoining = in
drapery. panelings. portieres. lambrequins
and curtains.
Satin is. and will be, very popular.
Black satin is certainly no longer so much
favored for day wear, it's place this
season being taken by oros grain, which
is infinitely preferable in sunlight because
devoid of any shiny appearance. For
evening wear. however, black satin yelled
with black lace will be very elegantly
worn.
Lace bonnets in black and cream white
in modified poke shapes, are among the
attractive fancies in new French millinery
Lace plaItings are laid over the brims
which are first covered with colored silk or
satin of either bright OF pale shades
Flowers matching the hue of the silk
foundation are wreathed around the
crown or massed at one side, mingled
usually with cascades of the lace.
There is much variety in bonnet strings.
Gold soutache half an inch wide is used
for strings, accompanied by wider black.
blue, garnet or brown velvet ribbon.
Orange and olive green velvet ribbons
are tied together for strings. Red and
blue strings are also tied together. Mar
row yellow velvet ribbon is tied with
wider black velvet ribbon. Short bride
sstrings in a curve below the chin are made
of bias velvet tied in a small bow, on
which rest flowers or humming birds. -
Neao York Tribune.
Many leading modistes have discontin-
ued the use of gored side breadths to
their skirts; those, whether short or long.
trimmed or PLAN. are now cut with one
center breadth; this is slightly sioped-
curved, more properly speaking-at
each side toward the top only. The
breadth on each side is the same width at
each end. but it is fitted to the figure at
the waist by two plaits in each breadth.
This, it is claimed, is an Improvement, as
it causes the skirt to sit straight. and
neither go in points nor cling too closely
to the figure. Men York E0eniRg Posi-.