Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-03-19
SOME SPRING STYLES.
Fresh Freaks of Fashion Direct frem
New York.
F,r The Sentinel.
BY SIDNEY EARLE.

BY SIDNEY EARLE.
The fashionable chapeau will be a
hat with broad brim and moderate
ly high crown.
A dressy capote is made of gold
lace interviewer with silver and steel
and adorned with a pfofusion of vel
vet loops feathers and an aigrette
Pretty little bonnets made of Grape
lisse all plated and adorned with
bows of contrasting color are o freak
of the season.
Favorite shades for spring are
mauve, Smoss green ecru and all tints
of rose. Current colors in spring
clothes are dark blue, Bordeaux
green and all the variations of brown
and gray.
Walking costumes show prepond-
erance in favor Of the velveteens with
strong firm pile and lustrous silken
surface such as the NonpareiI on dis
| play. 1t makes up wonderfully : with
an en- sembte SO fine as to bewilder
even the connossieur in the many sid
ed textile lore Of the century. The
variety is especially effective in conf
bination with the plain fabric in all
current shades.
An American triumph suggests it
self just now. Amid the soft flower
laden lustres of the sateen in new and
choice designs now crossing the lace
like frost work of the crystal windows
of Lord & Taylor, corner Broadway
and Twentieth street, spring product
ions of the Gilbert cloth mills of Ware
and Gilbertville are seen. This fact
speaks volumes for the future success
of American fabrics.
New woolen fabrics for street wear
are popular soft cheviots in mixed OIL
ors, whip cord diagonalsin plain shades
and for evening wear a loosely VOL
VERNE with crosswise stripes of vel
vet.
Metallic braids are mixed with hat
garnatures effectively; rows are laid
fiat about the crown and glittering
loops are interspersed with wings or
tips massed in front. Short mantle
ettcs for spring share favor with the
tailor cut jacket a Ia mizitaire so pop
ular in Paris, London and New York.
Short skirts with a profusion of
pleats massed at the back, the plain
tablier supplemented by small braid
outlined apron divide honors with the
bouffant style in former vogue.
Round waists are still short ON the
shoulder and high at the throat and
fitting the figure to projection.
The objective point in all toilettes
is corset so constructed as to make
the waist appear small without imped-
ing the free action of the lungs and
liver. Ridley's Fashion Magazine for
spring contains strong comprehen-
sive article entitled "The corset of
tradition and the corset of to-pay,"
which is full of solid information on
this important point and we freely
commend its perusal to our lady read
ers.
A lady manager of an extensive
and exclusive metropolitan CORES
pondence proffers to send samples of
new fabrics and fashions which consti-
tute the styles of two continents. Such
orders addressed to the "Press Ex-
change" IA Kearney St., Newark, n.
j. will receive prompt and careful at
tention and such data be furnished as
cannot fail to be of interest and value
to ladies living remote from the great
centres of commerce.
All the new tirts and tones on the
tapis for spring are reproduced at the
Staten Island Fancy Dyeing Establish
ment. The house and John ST.,
New York is good point to send to
if one wants costume refreshed or
household goods cleaned, through
branch offices of.the old original re-
liable concern in Brooklyn, Boston,
Philadelphia and Baltimoi g, cover the
ground of territorial demand and will
at all times do the business of cleans
ing and rejuvenating to perfection
gloves, plumes, ribbons, dainty laces.
table and curtain fabrics are made to
look new thus constituting this feature
} of enterprise and important phase in
the economies of current styles.
Ne,o York, March 10th.
Why, of Course.