Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-04
FEMININE FANCIES.

QUANTITIES of lace bunting will be
worn at the seaside.
VELVET waistcoats are the correct
wear with ribbed jerseys.
JERSEYS of ribbed silk frequently
have lace stri pes between the ribs.
LARGE flower designs appear on the
latest importations of linen lawns.
The poke of Valenciennes or Orien-
tai lace is the bonnet to wear with lace
and muslin dresses.
CoRsAGE bouquets for the incoming
week are Of spring blossoms of various
kinds, all in one Jardiniere bunch.
1t costs only 81 to buy novelty in
the shape of garden hat made of col
ored null, and trimmed with Oriental
laces.
BREAKFAST approximation of
lace, and velvet of all co1ors-are to be
worn with watering place breakfast
toilets.
SHOULDER capes of gray lace,
trimmed with steel beads, price only
$50, are worn effectively with gray,
pink, blue, or black silk dresses.
AMERICAN manufacturers are pro-
ducing the finest satin corsets at 1899
apiece that cannot be distinguished
from the $40 French corsets.
MANY skirts of silk and broche are
cut into tabs of various forms at the
bottom, with thickly gathered or pleat-
ed ruches of plain silk set on under
meath to make them set out.
BLACK lace points are utilized by
looping them to form hood in the
back and shirring them in at the waist
line. Then with loop upon the shout
ders they make pretty mantles.
PLEATED skirts of all kinds, fine, me-
dunn, accordion, round, box, fan, shell,
and orange pipe, clustered, reversed,
and sometimes with each end dashed
and turned up to form loop, are much
worn.
COMBINATIONS of velvet and silk,
Ottoman and Rhadames, in all colors,
with trimmings of Aurilac lace, form
some of the most elegant and costly
costumes of high ceremony for the
coming season at Saratoga and New
port.
LINEN lawns have both dark and
light grounds, pale blues, pinks and
dull green's, and also pure white, on
which are scattered big blossoms, clus-
tiers of fruits. Indian and Persian de-
signs, and rustic scenes and figures in
miniature.
The handsomest travelling raglans of
English cloths in combination with
velvet and broche, satin and silk, lined
through with satin, come in all the
dark cloth shades, and are eagerly
bought by fastidious customers at
prices ranging from $50 to $75.
In spite of all the ridicule that has
been showered upon @ sthetic dress, the
leaders OF that renaissance may con-
graduate themselves upon having left
a woman's dress that will probably sur
vive many decade. Greek peplums
and Grecian surplices, aesthetic and
artistic tea gowns, reappear with empha
sized effects from season to seas on.
The Beau Brummel waistcoat of
white corded silk, fastened with tiny
pearl buttons, with wide pocket flaps at
each side. trimmed with buttons to
match will be stylishly worn next sea-
| son, with dresses of rich black silk,
| dark blue ottoman and other dark silk
costumes. With dark wooden dresses
for the seaside, the waistcoat will be of
white serge, deliberately braided in
white.
The new carriage wrap made of dark
gray ottoman, and variously called the
spanish MANTLE" the "Barrister's
robe" the "Louis XIX. cloak" and the
Cardinal" is almost fac-simile of the
garb worn by Ellen Terry as Doctor of
Laws in the 'Merchant of Venice"
SOME of the pretty sateen dresses ere
made as follows: The skirt of the plain
sateen is side-plaited al the way round,
and above this is graceful Langtry
polonaise, Topped high on each side,
and trimmed from throat to hem down
the front with jabot of Oriental lace.
The polonaise is always of the figured
sateen, with ground matched to the
skirt fabric.