Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-03
FASHION POINTS.
Big buckles are all the rage.

dum1raDly.
Gay colors in costumes are worn only in
the house.
Brides dresses are made with elegant
simplicity this season.
All elegant street dresses are de rigueur,
dark or neutral tinted!
Alicante brown and Soldat red are popu-
lar new shades of these colors.
Gold thistles and gold burrs are the lat
est millinery and hair ornaments.
Amber, topaz, and all yellow stones are
IN vogue for ornamental jewelry.
Chicken down the color of the newly
hatched-is the latest shade of yellow.
Leather buckles appear among new Or
naments for hats, bonnets and dresses.
Sleeves of street costumes remain tight
and plain, and are larger than last season.
Plaid skirts worn under plain fabric pol
onalses and overdresses are in high favor.
Both high and low chignons are worn by
fashionable women, but they must be
| small.
Long shell or metal hair pins take pre-
| cedence of all other ornaments for the
couture.
Embroideries on light wool fabrics are
| done in the cross stitches of old fashioned
samplers.
The bridal couture most in favor is wavy
| in front, and braided into close knot in
the back.
Red in moderate quantities give fine
dash of bright color to black, gray, pale,
blue, and ecru dresses.
Gigot sleeves and epaulettes of ribbon or
ruching are considered correct and good
form for indoor dresses.
Red or green silk pompon trimmings
are fashionably worn on walking costumes
OF tweed or nuns gray ladies' cloth.
Scotch plaid glace silks of very dark col
ors are used il combination with Surah
end cachmere for semi-dress costumes.
Pansies in all colors and sizes on
grounds of various colors appear in chine
effects on some sash ribbons and scarfs.
Opal-tinted shot silks and the aurora
colors of pink with gray, or pink with
orange, are among the spring novelties.
The small capote entirely covered with
violets, and the brim and strings of Valen-
ciennes lace, is charming bonnet for
blondes.
Young ladies' nuns yelling dresses have
guimps of velvet set in with a point back
| and front, and high puff of velvet on
! each shoulder.
The Fedora bonnet has a pointed brim
| and pulled crown, and is made up in the
yellow silks and laces that Sara Bernhardt
brought into fashion.
The requisite dash of yellow in a white
toilet is sometimes given by wearing an
| amber necklace and amber bracelets, or
with yellow topaz jewelry.
Among new bonnets is a genuine novel
| ty of great beauty, called Newmarket. 1t
is modified jockey-cap bonnet, producing
| effect of poke without its oddity.
The new zephyr plaids make iaunty
| lawn-tennis costumes, and the colors often
est combined are olive, the new shade of
cranberry-red, and pale primrose yellow.
Pretty bonnets for spring and summer
have the entire brim covered with loops of
| narrow ribbon turned toward the front:
the crown may be of straw or of beaded
lace.
Pale amber and gold beads, or those of
pearl and gold, are used to outline silk
embroideries on Grecian house-robes and
matinees of white albatross cloth or Wig
ogne.
The fancy work of the coming season
vii! be outline embroidery in bright col
ored woods, cottons, and silks on shams.
tides, bibs, bureau covers, and table and
chair scarfs.
Long Jersey gloves, ten-button length,
in silk, silk and linen, or finest cachemire.
are highly favored for spring wear. These
gloves can be found in every desirable
street shade.
Many new bodices have puff of velvet
resting against the skin around the neck
without white lace inside; this is a test for
the complexion, and it is only becoming
to u ily-white skin.
Black Spanish lace costumes are inpor-
ted with red or yellow satin Innings. The
bright strawberry red shades are used for
these and are repeated in the bonnet, para
sol and fan.
Gowns of crimson, ruby and bright
shades of red are made of camels' hair and
satin, for the house in the afternoon in
town, and for general wear in the country.
Embroideries,i lace and velvet are their
garniture.
Balbriggan stockings abound IN the new
varied tints of strawberry, amber, terra
Gotta, brakes neck blue, laurel green,
bronze, elderberry, and deep rich shade
of violet. Each of these colors is clicked
with old gold or cream white.
The bridal veil may be either as long as
the train of the dress, or as short as the
waist line, but it must be of tulle if the
bride is youthful. If she is over % or 80
it may be of any fine, delicate real lace,
and shorter than the youthful brides
veil.
Among other pretty dainties which fash
ionable young ladies are preparing for
summer wear-works of their own hands
are garden-party hats of fcele lace, lin
ing the inside of crown and brim with pale
blue or rose-coloured Surah or Canton
Grape. Another fancy is 10 run black vel
vet ribbon through the meshe- finishing
with knot of velvet on the tip of the
crown.
Applique is favorite method of deco
rating the surface Of unpatterned materi-
ais. Beautiful designs in rich Oriental
colorings can now be purchased by the
doZafl II the trugy stores for reasonable