Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-26
FASHIONABLE FANCIES


HEAVY rich brocades and satins fo.
evening dresses require lace as the onIv
ornament worthy of their beauty, Wide
Vaienclennes and Irish laces are in high
1ashlon just now, besides the heavier
and richer kinds of guipure lace.
1T is announced authoritatively from
Paris that closely-fitted button gloves of
medium lengths, say with from three to
SIX buttons, are fast being restored to
favor, and that they are chosen to match
the color of the dress. Tan and putty
colors still prevail here.
Red and blue together are fashionable
IN wool costumes arranged with the
brightest colors for the plated skirt.
while the two colors appear together in
the bodice and overskirt or the redin-
cote. Thus deep blue camel's-hair with
dice squares of red plush is used for a
red1ngote with cloth skirt of dark red
Of single color.
LADIES who have a liking for hats
worn over the forehead will be glad to
learn that the old favorite, the English
walking hat, is likely to be revived this
spring. The brim is about the same as
OF old, rolling high and close on each
side, but the crown to most of the new
shapes are in the sloping Langtry
style, or else are high and square.
The newest brooches are branches,
sprays, or round crown shapes instead
of slender, long scarf pins. For fasten-
ing are new gold pins, shaped like &
dagger or a lily shaped spray curving at
the head. Initial pins of silver, small
gold pins, Rhine stones are in the heads
of other pins intended to confne the
folds of lace at the throat or to secure
the boguet to the bodice.
HE most successful evening bonnets
are light shades of velvet with embroid-
cred crowns worked with chenille or
beads. White is not used for these
small capotes, even white lace being out
of fashion. A feather pompon of four
pieces made of breasts with q standing
aigrette center is the trimming. A
large velvet bow with short ends fastens
it under the chin, and small diamond or
ruby pins are thrust through the loops.
PALE gray with pink, and darker gray
with garnet are among the most success
full contrasts of color for young ladies'
dresses. Gray or putty colo1ed satin
for the waist and train, with brocaded
fronts of a surface of the same color COW
cred with c5Sele velvet, of figures of pink
and garnet together, are very effective
for dinner dresses. Round moons,
rings, and wheels Of garnet velvet trim
light-gray cloth suits for dressy street
wear.
SHORT Russian jackets of gay plaided
fabrics in velvet, tweed, Tel. -Kebir
cloth, or cheviot, are very prevalent
among skating costumes for young girls.
These coats are very jaunty and also
very comfortable, being thickly lined
and finished in the back with pointed
hood faced with a dark satin in mono
chrome. Natural beaver Or "Grecian"
lynx fur, in narrow bands, trims the
edges; and with the jacket is worn Rob
Roy cap of the plaid, with tiny fur
trimmed muf and skate-bag to match.
GREAT clusters of blush roses are just
now very fashionably worn with full
dress toilets in New York, and it was
noticed at brilliant gathering at the
Metropolitan Opera House the other
evening that these fragrant blossoms
were almost without exception worn by
ladies who appeared with bodice cut
decOILete. Perhaps these roses were
adopted and worn as a sort of vicarious
offering to a sentiment which the wear
ers instinctively felt, but were coUr-
ageous enough or careless enough to dis
regard.
FEATHER fans still maintain their hold
on public favor. The latest styles In
the Viennese feather fans show mosaic
like designs formed of small, brilliant
colored feathers against back grounds
of full fluffy crean-white or dark green
feathers of marabout. Tinted ostrich
feather fans of large oval shane continue
fashionable for evening dress use, and
fans of cream white satin, richly en-
broidered or painted, with gold sticks,
finished at the the top with gold lace,
are carried at receptions and the opera.
These are hung from the waist in chatel
alne fashion.
The latest styles of plaided fabrics are
worn this season by ladies who never
ventured to adopt them before, for the
reason that the,new,patterns, unlike most
plaids, are very tasteful, and blend with
plain materials with good effect, having
solid grounds simply crossed with hair
lines of white, gray, blue, or ruby. In
black, laurel green, wood brown, dove,
amber and Venetian red, these plaids
have very stylish, yet quiet effect, par
ticularly when shown in ricn materials.
Very handsome costumes have been
composed of them in combination with
velveteen. One of these, called the
"Walter Scott" is composed of dark
marine-blue Saxony- cloth, crossed with
white lines, the underskirt of dark blue
velveteen, and the tunic of plaid with
waistcoat of blue velvet, and jacket of
the cloth, turned back with revers of
velvet. The gilet is closed with large
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