The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-03-22

Fashion Items.

Jetted and lack-luster galoons are
much used for trimmings in eight
mourning dress.
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
Redingotes and French polonaises in
score of different forms continue in
favor.
Corsage flowers for the street. either
real or artificial, are but little seen, be-
ing replaced by knots of handsome rib
bon, either of Ottoman silk, plush, ribbed
velvet, or plaided surah, in brilliant
hues contrasting with that OF the dress.
A certain professional beauty-a lady
also celebrated for her artistic taste in
dress-has been photographed in hum
dred different costumes and in as many
d fferent attitudes. 1t has been said
of this fact that the only person who
can excel her for variety of attitude is a
boy commanded to sit still on char.
Pine-green and doe colored plaids
and checks in fine wooden fabrics are
among spring novelties. Except for
children, these plaids will form the
skirt and tunic alone, the Jacket being
OF dark-green velvet. with no trim
mings except medium sized buttons of
green enamel and gold. Cream-color
and garnet are another popular Goa BIZ
nation in shepherd and other plaids.
A vagary of fashion--a revival--is to
twist an immensely long scarf of silk
muslin or tulle high up and very close
round and round the throat, and to
fasten it with large antique brooch or
with lace pin set with sparkling gems.
Thus muffled u, the wearer, while be-
ing in the height of style as To neck
dressing, will also delude ignorant peo-
pie into the belief that she is a sufferer
from goitre.
For dinner or dancing dress, br6caded
Ottoman silks are much used. In white
these are extremely handsome for bri-
dal dresses, combining very elegantly
with heavy white satin. Two Worth
dresses made of these rich materials
have the court train of the brocaded
Ottoman, with petticoat of heavy lus-
trous white satin trimmed around the
foot; one with a fringed ruching ten
inches deep, and the other with q band
of white ostrich-teather trimming the
same width.
New spring bonnets for evening wear
are in the Valois style, with so crowns
and shirred brims. Many of them are
made of delicately- tinted velvets, like
pale pink or mauve, with torsades and
bows of Ottoman silk, run through with
iewel-headed pins. Others are made of
cream-hued satin, wreathed with peach
arslnt H. laa.
spring violets mingled with cream lace.
tinted in the center of each scallop with
a delicate hue matching the flowers of
the wreath.
In some of the newest models for
house Jackets OF cashmere or vigogne,
the edges are cut into squares and a
dainty bit of embroidery is worked in
ca h block. In binding or lining these
squares little space is male between
each, which is filled in with fan plait-
ing o. white lace. A similar trimming
finishes the erenelated edges of the ell
bow sleeves and the neck, and is some
times carried down the front from the
throat to the hem of the Jacket.
Ribbed plush in two or more shades
is being much used in the composition
of visiting and reception toilets This
plush is used for the skirt, and the up
per dress is of brocaded Ottoman silk
velvet or mOirc. For walking costumes
the ribbed plush skirt has the overdress
of cachemire, ladies' cloth, or vigogne.
Brown and o'd-go.d plush, with red
irgote or tune and ia ket Of plan
brown cloth, eacock blue with ribs Of
electric blue, and overdress of pla n
peacock-blue cachemire. trimmed with
the plush, are among the stylish spring
dresses of this description. N Y Eue,s-
ing Post.