The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-04-21
Late Fashion Items.

Late Fashion Items.
Oblong clasps. buckles and brooches.
in cut steel, gold, silver and enamel, set
with half precious jewels, are in great
use both for millinery and dress pur-
poses.
Long Beau-Brummel redingotes are
the latest French walking-coats for the
promenade. They are uncommonly
stylish, and particularly becoming to
tall, slender women.
Crushed strawberry, of palest shade,
and the new French tint of terra-cotta,
are leading colors in new spring bonnets
and round hats of Manila, chip, satin
braid, porcupine, Doncaster, cactus lace
and other fancy straws.
Various standings of drake s-neck and
peacock blues and greens, are charming
in monochrome colors or mixed with
gold in tweed. cashmere, Austrian wool
or cheviot, with plush or velvet en-
ployed as garniture; a broad band OF
the trimming set near the edge of the
killed skirt, and forming also the waist
coat, pelerine cuffs and toque.
Simple elegance is the rule of the
hour, and, as an example, a noted i'm
porter, always early with the seasons
novelties, displays an exquisite carriage
toilet of dove-grav corded silk, made in
short princesse style, with drapings and
panels of dove-gray brocaded velvet.
The corsage is made to fit jersey fashion.
and is devoid of trimming, except fall
of gray Spanish lace draping the neck
and sleeves.
Girls wraps are generally in the coat
or jacket shape this spring, the materials
most popular for these being of tweed
or gray, seal brown, dark green or garnet
cloaking cloths, finished with a stitched
hem and handsome buttons; while tie
ornate finds expression on them in fes.
toons of heavy cords confined by gimps
agrafes, or brandebourgs. The deep
coat three-fourths fitting, the French
redingote and the tailor-made Newmark-
cts find votaries among mothers who
study comfort in selecting their daught-
ers' wraps quite as much as elegant eff
feet. .. ... ---
Tinted or white feathers worn in the
hair are quite the rage in coiffures ar
ranged for full dress occasions, and this
airy plumage now waves in barbaric
splendor over every fashionable lady's
head, totally regardless of the type of
her countenance. 1t may be regal-a
straight nose and forehead vying in
beauty with Vittoria Colonna-a type
that feathers look well above, or it may
be most unregal, with commonplace
forehead and a nose which, if not ''tip-
tilted like the petal of a flower" is not
modelled by Nature with special view
to waving plumes. 1t is all the same,
however, Vittoria of Phyllis; feathers are
at the present moment the proper orna-
ment for the classic, the stately, the
dumpy, whether they suit or not, wheth-
er they give an added charm to the feat
ures or are as much out of place as a
red gown at funeral, black Grape
dress for bride, or decolleted even
ing dress at midday feast.
Walking costumes are, generally
speaking of simple construction, with
jacket bodice closely fitting, and skirts
arranged in killings, or broad panels
with Killings set between. Sometimes
this favorite, if not novel, style of trim
ming is varied by arranging shrred
flounce cut out into turret-blocks or
Vandyke scallops overa narrow one laid
in knife-plaitings. The overdress in the
back is draped very full and high and
is now shorter than formerly. This
drapery requires the support of the
tournure of whalebone or steel to give
it the required French effect-that
controlling element of the world of
fashion having decidedly settled the
question that crinoline, in the back at
least, is an indispensable accessory for
any who aspire to anything like chic or
best style in dress. Fashion, in the past
so continually criticised and dubbed ex-
acting in the extreme, is by no means
despotic in her later moods, allowing her
latter-day votaries to dress pretty much
as they like, so that, provided a lady
shows good taste and understanding in
selection and cut of her attire, she may
pass uncriticised, whether dressed in the
magnificence of the Queen of Sheba,
with brocades and jewels, or as simple
maiden, lowly born, in brown Holland. -
N. Y. Eveming Post.