Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-04-26
COLLARS are still worn high.


COLLARS are still worn high.
HABIT-sHIRTs are again fashionable.
The waistcOat grows more and more In favor
PANsIEs are popularity worn as belt boquets.
MorsE-COLoRED undressed kids are fashiona-
bic.
BAG VESTS contrast with the rest of the cos
tune
FEW or no fashionable dresses arc made all
of one kind of stuff
WHITE PETrICoATS are only worn with full
dress evening toilets.
CHEvIoTs and beiges remain the fayorite
fabrics for travelling suits
The faTorte figures on brown linens are
clover leaves in a brovner tint
FANCY wOollens have raised figures embroid-
cred. or brOche, with chenille.
EVEN WHITE Muslin dresses are made with
~aisteOats which are detachable.
soFr MATERIALS. either of silk or wool, that
drape gracefully. are much worn.
AMONG the French linens are changeable ohes
almost as pretty as the shot silks.
WHITE will again be the faYorite festival
dress Tor midsummer garden parties.
Win 0OunceS,
are worn by the most fastdous women.
NEW white cotton batistes as wide as India
null come with small old-fashioned figures.
EMBROIDERED nuns yelling is being made up
extensively for evening dresses for young ladies.
CoLOKED Surah and silk wastcoats are fire.
guently worn with white null or nainsook
dresses.
1T Is IMPOSSIBLE 20 enumerate the various
shapes in which Lats and bOnnets are made
Nowadays.
VELVET, even in the smallest quantities. does
not appear upon any Of the new spring and sum
mer gowns
WHITE VEILINGS come with broche figures in
white silk. the designs small, scattered, and of
great beauty.
JERSEY JACKETS are among the most popular
wraps for spring wear. They are very useful
and seryiceable.
NEW TAnOR-MaDE DRESSES have perfectly
plain skirts They come in all the new brown
and gray shades
SQUARE-CUT corsages are more worn with eve
ming dresses than the very decollete V-shaped
or round corsages.
DRESSES trimmed with ccrdings and pipings
OF ecru leather are displayed in the windows of
New Ork importers.
shaded velvet figures are the most superb fab
ries ever yet produced.
TNDREssED kid gloves are worn entirely to the
exclusion of those made of dressed kid. Tan and
grey are the popular shades.
WHITE YELLING ROBES come in machine en-
brOidered or broche for half the dress, the other
halt being OF plain stuff
THE blending OF what are called the old tapes
m 10 oil nit fuI 70
who have feeling for color.
BRocaDED SATIN CREPE-DE- CHINE, color on
cOlOr-the figures quite small are among the
most elegant novelties OF the season.
EVEN white dresses are made of two kinds of
material. one plain. the other embroidered
brOche, dotted, sprigged. barred, or striped.
SHoULDER CAPEs in chenille and lace, held
together with rows OF old-fashiOned netting In
silk. will be the dressy midsummer street wrap
LoNG- NEwMARKETs are made of cheviot
beige. and camels' haIr cloths. They have tight
bOdiceS, full skirts, and shoulder capes with
high shoulders
THE latest importations of taffeta gIaces are
ehangeabie and also fine checked and these are
combined with brccaded taffetas in the SAME
colors with changeabe grounds.
NATTY cloth hat or bonnet is now invariably
sent home with the ''tailOr-made' costume as a
part Oi the dress. This is q close following of
= fashion set by Partisan taiors-
WHITE LINENS. dotted, sprigged, Powered
and figured in small scattered designs in col
ors-blue red. violet. olive. and BLACKWELL be
worn in combination with plain white linens to
form suits.
BRIDES now carry bouquets of Jacqueminot
or Bonslene roses in preference to those that
are pure white in color. The white roses Hlacs
and lilies of the valley are, however, much more
suitable and becoming. .e-4
The sunfiower daisy, marigold. dandeiion.
and hedge roses. with leaves. are the flowers
most in favor for c0lOred outline embroidery on
pongees and on pOngee, gray and mushroom
eoloTed cashmeres and woollen stuffs
GRAY, pongee. and mushroom colored cash
meres, in all the shades of those popular colors.
come in pattern lengths for dresses, part of
which are covered with flowers ana SPRAYS en-
brOidered in outline stitches with yari-cOlored
silks.
MoSs-GR and almond-colored plaids and
checks in fine camels hair and other softly drap-
Ing wooden fabrics are very fashionably worn
Except for slender persons, these plaids form
the skirt and tunic alone. the bodice consist
Ing of a jersey OF dark mOss-green stockinette
Cream color and golden brown are another
popular combination in shepherd and block
plads.
THE FASHIONABLE tailor made dress consists
OF three pieces: q trimmed skirt habit bodice
and frock coat or redingOte The skirt il laid
In side or clustered piaits. surmGunted by a
short draped apron folds which are lost In
the drapery behind, this descending TO the top
OF a killed hounce. unless the perpendicular
plaits are laid ali around alike, is not unfre-
Guently the case.
SHOT SILKS are and will continue to be very
fashionable. Velvet is much used to trim them,
and should be Of a much darker shade than the
silk Shrred founces are more effective for
shot materials than killings. lowing the won
derfu changing sheen Of colOrs to better adj
vantage. "Pinked" rufles and ruches are
much favored "a trimmings for shot silks and
many skirts are trimmed nearly to the waist
with narrow fOunees having the edges thus
finished. Narrow hounces, pinked and only
slightly fulled, are admirable foundations for
lace frills, keeping the lace from looking limp.
and also showing the pattern to better effect
STEEL TRIMMINGS are again i'm vogue but
though largely used on bonnets, they are spar
ingly employed for dress garniture, the effect
being considered too snowy tor perfect taste.
BODnets and round hats covered with escural
and other nets of black embroidered with steel
and trimmed with black aigrettes or tufts,
frosted with steel. are exceedingly stylish and
handsome. Steel buckles and buttons are
much used on combination toilets of black aud
white, OF striped. checked or fancy mixtures
Jet garntures were never more fashionable or