St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-11
FASHIONABLE GLoBELETs.

Easter bonnets keep milliners busy just
now.
There are ''no rules of fashion, this sea-
son.
High collars and high coiffures are all the
rage.
Easter dresses are in the hands of dress
makers.
Lace dresses, both black and white, will
again be worn.
ball dresses.
Easter cards with medieval designes are the
novelties this season.
Costumes with motif decorations are the
latest Persian novelty.
Nuns yelling bids fair to be the favorite
fabric for evening wear.
Lace, is after ALL the favorite ornamental
ton for the richest toilets.
Velyeteens are made more soft, silky, vel
vet like, and durable than ever.
Flowers and feathers figure largely in eve
ming, dinner, and ball toilets.
Embroidered Swiss muslin dresses bid fair
to be the favorite this summer.
Fringes play an important part in the Or
namentatfon of table cloths and napkins.
Many original, unique, and aesthetic dress
es were seen at Ridley's opening last week.
Flowers and leaf fans are the correct thing
for ball toilets, when the garnitures are of
flowers.
Puffs or wristlets of ribon, 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 laces.
Necklets of roses, forget-me-nots, or pan
sizes linked together are in great favor for
full dinner, reception, and ball dress.
Dinner, tea, breakfast and luncheon linens
are made as decorative as possible, with artis-
tic embroideries in color and gold thread.
The favorite trimming of the Henri II. hat
is a broad band of velvet, large metal, jet
or jewelled buckle, and panache of fea-
theirs.
After all the full blouse bodice, with low
neck and belted waist, is the favorite for
evening dresses of yelling, null or Swiss
Muslin.
Silk underware is made still more costly
and elegant with quantities of lace and more
or less fine embroidery and feather-stitched
seams.
Accordian-p leated skirts and shoulder
capes, bordered with deep accordian pleat-
ing, are worn together, especially by children
and young girls.
The favorite spring stuffs for dresses are
the Khiba cloths, Thibet textures, canvas
woven veilings, cashmeres and rough Eng
lish woollens.
fure with moths and butterflies of gold thread
and gossamer are favorite ornaments for
evening wear.
The couture is arranged high in puffs and
bands on the crown of the head, but small
fall on the nape Of the neck, and waved
bangs on the forehead and temples.
When a necklet of flowers is worn the hair
is adorned with the same kind Of blossoms,
generally in a knot on one side of the CHI
gnon or on the crown braids which are now
worn.
The technical term motif is applied to
those decorations in the form of embroider-
les, paisementeries, or woven or bead orna-
ments, the stimulation of leaves, birds, in
sects, flowers, arabesques or conventional
lied forms, with which ladies or their dress
makers adorn the various parts of the dress
lest 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. silk floss.
Nine. Modjeska lately ordered dress en-
broidered in this style of an Atlanta, Georg
ia, lady, who is an exquisite painter with her
needle. The price was fabulous, but then
Nine. Modieska is generous.