St. Paul daily globe., 1884-04-22
FASHIONABLE eLoBELErs.
Riding habits are ungracefury short.


rage.
Easter dresses are in the hands of dress
makers.
Lace dresses, both black and white, win
again be worn.
Berthas of fine, small flowers are worn
with bali dresses.
Diversity is the most marked feature in
fashions this spring.
! Costumes with motif decorations are the
latest Partisan novelty.
Easter cards with medieval designs are
the novelties this season.
Lace is, after all, the favorite ornamenta-
ton for the richest toilets.
! Nuns yelling bids far to be the fayorite
fabric for evening wear.
| Slippers, gaiters, boots, and shoes Of all
kinds are still pointed at the toe.
| Velveteens are made more soft, silky, vel
vet Ike, and durable than ever.
Flowers and feathers figure largely in
evening. dinner, and ball toilets.
| Embroidered Swiss muslin dresses bid fair
to be favorites this summer.
Fringes play an important part in the or
namentation of table cloths and napkins.
Many original, unique, and aesthetic"
dresses We're seen at Ridley's opening last
week.
The latest fancy in chamber robes is the
Mother Hubbard back and Pompadour front.
Flower and leaf fans are the correct thing
for ball toilets, when the garnitures are of
flowers.
Puffs or wristlets of ribbon, velvet and
lace, with jet buckles and ornaments, are
coming in vogue.
The finest body linen is embroidered more
or less, and made exquisite with Valencien-
mes or costly imitation lace.
Necklets of roses, forget me-nots, or
pansies linked together are in great favor for
full dinner, reception and ball dress.
After all the full blouse bodice, with low
neck and belted waist, is the favorite for
evening dresses of yelling, null, or Swiss
muslin.
Dinner, tea, breakfast, and luncheon
linens are made as decorative as possible,
with artistic embroideries in color and gold
thread.
The favorite trimming of the Henri II.
hat is broad band of velvet, large metal,
jet or jewelled buckle, and panache of
feathers.
Silk underwear is made still more costly
and elegant with quantities of lace and more
or less fine embroidery and feather stitched
seams.
The favorite spring stuffs for dresses are
the Khiba cloth, Thibet textures, canvas
woven yeilings, cashmeres, and rough Eng
lish woollens.
Feathers and flowers fastened in the Golf
fure with moths and butterflies of gold thread
and gossamer are favorite ornaments for
evening wear.
Little boys trousers come just below the
knee, their jackets and large waistcoats fall
low over these, and all three are of the same
color.
Harlequin stockings have one-half the leg
and foot in QUE bright or dark color, the 9th
er half in a paler shade of the same or con-
trasting tint.
The mushroom, top and stem, seems to
have afforded some of the art ideas Of the in
ventors of nsw figures brocaded in velvet on
taffeta, glace silks.
Accordion -pleated skirts and shoulder
capes, bordered with deep accordion pleat-
ing, are worn together, especially by children
and young girls.
The coiffure is arranged high in pufTs and
bands on the crown of the head, but small
curls fall on the nape of the neck, and waved
| ha for
When a necklet of flowers is worn the hair
is adorned with the same kind Of blossoms,
generally in knot on one side of the CHG
non or on the crown braids which are now
worn.
Ladies of New York are this spring emula-
luncheons or breakfasts, the light collation.
being followed by recitations, readings, or a
lecture and music.
The technical term mott is applied to those
decorations in the form of embroideries, pas
sementeries, or woven or bead ornaments,
the stimulation of leaves, birds, insects, flow
ers, arabesques, or conventionalized forms,
with which ladies or their dressmakers adorn
the various parts of the dressiest costumes.
A new kind of embroidery, destined to be-
come immensely fashionable, consists of
raised flowers, the petals formed of lustrous
satin or satin ribbon in all the colors and
shades demanded by the artist, and the
leaves and calices of Kensington stitch in
floss. Nine. Modjeska lately ordered dress
embroidered in this style of an Atlanta (Geor-
gia lady, who is an exquisite painter with
her needle. The price was fabulous, but
then, Nine. Modieska is generous.