Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-02-13
DRESS AND FASHION.
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ered With diamonds OF Jet.
SOME Of the new silk-fnished sateens
have fine diagonal twills, others have
damassee effects on stripes.
OFFICERS collars for street dresses
are in much better taste than fichus or
cravats, and are much worn.
SHORT ostrich tips and smooth feath-
ers Of every kind are preferred this sea-
son to the sweeping plumes so long
worn.
THREE bracelets to be worn on one
arm represent three revieres of differ
ept stones-rubies, diamonds and sap
phires.
IT is said that gray satin and gray
velvet with steel will be as fashionable,
or more so, in the spring as it has been
during the winter.
The samples of new taffeta glace silk
seen at Denning's show dark grounds
and figures outlined with bright but ar
tistic shades of color.
NOVELTIES in handkerchiefs are of
delicate unbleached and coffee-tinted
batiste, with fine embroidered borders
In white and in colors.
FASHIONABLE overskiTts are now cut
with some squareness, and often have a
plain back breadth, gathered slightly
and formed into one pouf.
A LATE invention, for boys and girls
who will kneel down on the play ground
and wear out the knees of their stock
ings, is stocking knee protector.
EMBROIDERED nainsooks for next sea-
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hyacinths in their natural sizes, scroll,
leaf and wheel designs, with occasional
delicate touches of color, from six
inches to yard or more in depth, to
form the skirt of the dress, while mar
row embroideries and insertions to
match will be used on the overdress
and corsage.
ROUND skirts, even those of dressy
toilets, which are covered with founces
and draperies, are still made very mar
row, being not more than from two
yards to two yards and quarter around
the bottom. Some are cut straighter
on the sides. But, whatever may be the
style Of the toilet, it must be so ar
ranged as not to cling so closely around
the knees as to impede the movements.
than formerly, that is, not goreds SO much
As pretty as the Moliere waistcoat,
and more adaptable, is the Holland
chemistte seen In some of the new din
ner toilets of plain or embroidered vel
vet. This chemistte is of hght-colored
silk or surah, and is gathered very full
to a velvet or satin dog collar, which
fits high up in the neck. It's fullness is
permitted to dispose itself in the long
pointed V neckof the dark close-ftting
velvet costume. The Y sometimes
reaches almost to the waist line, both
back and front, and has fiat border of
silk jet or applique embroidery reach
ing almost to the puff Of the high-shoul-
dered sleeve.
IRISH poplin, which Queen Victoria
is endeavoring to again render popular
in England, finds warm supporter in
Lord Waveney who bears strong trib-
ute to its beauty and suitability for wall
decorations. for which purpose it is now
being used by the queen and in many
English houses. Lord Waveney also
proves that it is exceedingly durable.
In 1874 he had the drawing-room of his
London house hung with Irish tabaret,
yellow, with white stripes. The color
and brilliancy," he says, remain IN
diminished in intensity after near forty
years wear in London. A ruby tabaret
has lasted equally WE'LL"
PRETTY toilette sets consisting of five
pieces, viz, scarf for covering the bu-
READ, a square cover for a pincushion,
and two smaller squares as mats for bot
ties, with sometimes a long piece for
covering a comb-and- brush-box, are
made of the sheer fine linen batiste now
used for embroidery. A pretty all-over
design is wrought in it in Kensington
stitches in silk of pale blue or deep red
shades. or else there is band of the
crackIe designs on which flowers are
strewn worked across each end. Each
piece is then lined with silk or silesia
of color to suit the upholstery of the
room, and an edging of linen lace is
added, such as torchon in the new pat
terms, or the braid-hke Russian laces.
FoREIGN fashion plates and papers on
hair-dressing report waves and fluffy
curIs still as the prevailing styles Of the
front hair. The top of the head being
artistically arranged in loops and knots
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hair, ending in a short, loose curls fall
ing on the neck. There are several
STYLES of hair-dressing at present very
becoming to elderly as well as young
ladies. Hair-dressing is in fact becom-
ing an art In America as well as in Eu-
rope, where they have regular schools
for teaching it, and where there is great
competition among the coiffures regard
ing styles and alacrity in arranging the
couture. The fashion of cutting the
back hair. so much in ogue at present,
is substituted by bunch of short curls
fastened over the wearer's own hair, and
falling down the neck in such a manner
as to give the appearance of the back
hair having been cut and curled.
ALREADY the first importations
summer satteens, percales and bats
have made their appearance in the
eastern shops. These washing goods
are shown with very wide stripes and
two contrasting colors, such as India
red with golden brown, white with
black, gray with red, or red with blue.
There are also goods with narrower