The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-02-28
Fig Leaves.

Honeysucklo yellow is the latest tint Of
that color.
Pelerines and shoulder capes are in great
or favor thar ever.
Redingotes and polonsises in score of
forms are highly popular.
Roman pearl beads have never been more
fashionable than at present. The newest
strings show delicate and beautiful tints Of
palest pink, shading to most delicate
mauve, which is only seen upon the edges
of sea anemone. Other beads show COM
bination of the softest tints of rose, gold,
pearl and pslest sea green.
Good articles are usually in the best
taste and wear the largest. And this, in.
variably purchasing good articles, and not
pronounced in color or makeup, the person
even who studies economy comes at length
to be ia possession of a handsome wardrobe.
Many ladies who are considered su fait up
on dress adhere strictly to one color, only
changing the style; black velvet is suitable
for dress of this kind; or soft wooden fab
RIGS that can be worn for full dress, and
then cleaned, and at last dyed, thus making
one dress go through a series of change that
runs into years.
The frat importations of spring millinery
are bonnets of lustrous satin braids, sub
stsntisl looking Milan strsws, and the fine
English split straws. These brsids are al
shown in their natural cream white tints,
but the great bulk of the importations i:
colored straw bonnets, with q preference
for red and brown shades, suchss raspberry
and the crushed strawberry red, pale leather.
color and the darker Havana or tobacco
browns. Gold, silver and bronze braidi
are again used for entire boDnets, and there
are fancy straws of cream and leather col
ors wrought with threads of brsids of gill
or silver. The osier bonnets made of rub
Der tubing and of coarse braid, introduced
last summer, are again seen. Chip bonnet'
are not largely imported, but are slwsyl
worn by those who must have bonnets o
very light weight.
The new shapes are principally pokes Of
medium size, not nearly so large as thoe,
worn last summer, and are very quantity
shaped with "tip-tilted" brims rolled fs
back toward the crown, or else folded o.
pointed on the edge of the brim like thu
fish-wife bonnets, or perhaps they poin
down in front, while others have the brin
aud top of the crown on the same level.
Ribbons. lsces and flowers are the mater
isls most used for trimming the new bon
nets. Pompons, aigrettes of marsbout, snC
short ostrich tips are on many hats but it i
said feathers will not be az much used q
they were last summer. The ribbons ar
narrow, varying from short inch to tw,
inches in width and they may be of vel
vet with satin on the wrong eide, or else OF
toman repped on one side with satin on tn
opposite side, or perhaps both sides ar
repped; the only brocsded ribbons are o
Persian coloring, and those with large bali
of velvet or satin on repped ground.
Velvet and silk flowers replace thia mus
lin flowers, and satin and heavy plush ar
used for the petals of dark nasturtiums, car
nations. asters, dshlias, chrysanthemumi
and wild roses. Few large roses are seen
the preference is for small flowers bunche,
as half-wreaths, or in one large fat cluster
Verbenas are thickly clustered, and Their
are ruches of geraniums that cover the en-
tire brim of caposes; violets, heliotrope!
and forget me nots also form the front G
boDnets that have a crown of lace, straw
or ottoman silk.