National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-01-20
FEMININE FANCIES.


In Paris brooches are suspended by dog col.
lars or necklets.
Skirts with six or seven tucks are fashionable
for young people.
Skirts trimmed with deep flounces of lace
have only narrow plating at the bottom.
Pearls with an invisible setting are used
for ladies' collar studs. The pearls are whole,
and the gold back Of the stud is drilled into 1t.
Bright cretonnes and morris cottons of large
designs are used for bed coverings and pillow
shams, aud may be finished with lace or a rib
bon OF the same.
Some ball dresses and gowns for dancing are
cnt low, back and trout and have merely straps
for sleeves; others again arc made high and
the sleeves meet the gloves.
A black tulle dress strewn with crimson
moss rosebuds has drapery of plain black
tulle and is trimmed with crimson and moss
colored ribbons. The bodice is OF black satin.
A beautiful pungent Is of cameo glass, with
an exquisite design of the true snow.drOp
(galanthanivalis) on u pale blue ground. The
top IL ofdelicately wrought gold. Another has
lilies of the valley on sea-green ground.
Countess Potocka, who recently LEFT Paris to
pass the winter months in Algiers took with
her, among other extensive baggage, a portable
tent made of waterproof alpaca lined with
green silk and embroidered with her crest
The French journals went into ecstacies over
this bOudoir de uOyd9e.
Bonnet has introduced new style of gros-
grain silk in which the cord Is thrown upon
one side alone, leaving the other side almost
plain. The fabric does not possess much lus.
Ter and has the disadvantage, of course, of not
being reversible, but II Is softer and heavier
than the ordinary corded SILK.
Care should be used in choosing colors;
green and blue suit fair people; green height
ems the pink OF the cheeks and the red in the
lips, and blue gives an orange tinge to the
skin. Rose red destroys the freshness of a
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color light blue or dark green will be becom-
ing,
White brocaded satlns for wedding dresses
show new designs of white lilac blossoms,
pond lilies with exqulsitely tinted stems,
white velvet marguerltes with golden hearts,
blue and silver humming birds, fern fronds in
silver and gold, prlmroses, and iield daisies
and sheaves of wheat, made wholly OF white
chenille and white silk embroidery, The
most expensive patterns are outlined with
pearl beads.
The plastron and vest front continue TO re-
main in favor, though much modified the
Fedora or bullying, Oyerhanging, aud form
disllguring style having passed IT'S prime us
tnYOrlte. Long plain vest fronts are best
adapted to short-waisted forms; the short or
square plastrOn improves slim, IOng waist in
appearance. On velvet, wool, or iaille dresses
the plustron Is cut, in the latest models, some.
what narrower than II has been, and on wool
dresses Is seen edged on each side by rows of
braid. On velvet and satin dresses they some.
| times have side reyers, and are also seen
| edged with lace.
The plain, straight bertha reappears to-day
/ among the many pretty tribes that fashionable
| fancy is now picking out nom among long
| past and almost forgotten dress adIuncts, II
Is u straight or slightly rounded piece of lace
! woven to Ill the bust, and fall open in front
about six to eight inches in depth, As worn
| of old, they were simply placed round the
edge of lOw.nGcked, round bodice, aud fall
| ing straight over the arm, helped to form a
! ala laR
or "mlniaturo pin" held the Lace together
over the bust One Of these berthas, made in
Ireland of the delicate, flmy, and costly
"Limerlc' lace, once travelled many hundred
| miles inclosed in little box made Of an Eng.
| lish walnut. Should the bertha remain In
favor long the modern inclination for draping
aud looping everything that can he 50 treated
! viii probably devise some more ornate method
OF disposng OF II round the shoulders.
A beautiful ball dress Is Of tule and bro
| cnded velvet, IN the lovely tint known as
| Eau dc M (Nilc water), which is very iaint
shade Ol emerald green. The lower skirt Is of
plain tulle round and full, having two or
| three broad ituGks above the hem An over
dress In the same shade of tulle, covered with
IL shower OF tniy, velyety pompons, Is draped
over the uuderskirt, being diagonally across
the 'front.' aud Topped very high on the len
side, showing Hat panel of the brocaded vel.
yet, Inc bodice Is spencer in form, pointed
back and fr0nt, The sleeves, puiis of the
plain tule Here and there, where tho over
skirt Is Topped, clusters of white waterliies
nestle. The same flowers droOp from the
center Of the aorsage, aud cling TO its upper
edge up toward the len shoulder where thcy
droOp again across the back Of the bodice, and
minglu with tue tournuro drapings. Pearls
clasp the throat nnd wrist Of the wearcr, and
the hair, which must be that OF a yeritabe
blonde, Is c0tled low in the back, the front
tresses being waved, and either turned over
n small pOmpadOur coil, or carried carecssly
back beneath the back coil, as is most becom'
ing. A pearl ornament In the form of an
open auted sea shell is seen In the air,