The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-04-03
Harvard Advocate.

/ There is a tendency to restore the
/ French heel, an intolerable appendage to
Ia straight, hard shoe, and one sure to
create disease of the feet from which the
wearer will probably always suffer.
Low cut shoes, the "Oxford" ties AID
others, have established themselves upon
a firm basis for popular summer and
country house wear. They are usually
well cut and easy for the feet, and, III
| good qualities, durable. Slippers are
only suitable for house wear and some
dressy occasions.
Bronze shoes and fancy feathers have
never found much favor with American
women, for the reason that they are i'm
practicable iand wholly unsuited for the
majority. ColOrs and fancy styles in
feathers enlarge the apparent size of the
feet, and cannot be worn with propriety
in the street. AS ornamental slippers
| upon small feet, and for house wear with
delicate costumes or colors to match, they
are not Objectionable, but their use in
this way is limited, and the common
sense of the majority prescribe neat-ftting
black shoes as the only one suited at all
| times and seasons.
Quite change is anticipated this
son in the cut and make of frocks for
girls. It is not likely that the princess
styles will be displaced-they are too con-
venient and generally becoming for that;
but for little girls between the ages of six
and twelve years, some old forms will be
revived. The yoked waist attached to
moderately full tucked skirts, and the
single skirt with hem and tucks, are en-
| pleyed instead of the draperied oVerskirt
and polOnaise. These styles are particu-
lsrly suitable for cottons, linens and
muslins, and may be very well applied
to thin woods.
But little jewelry is worn in the streets
| in Paris, and diamonds are considered en-
tirely out of place except at a dinner or
| evening toilet
Spring muffs are now made of crimped
| chenille fringe, sewn on to the small silk
foundation in CLOSE over-falling rows. Of
course these muffs must match the dresses
and hats with which they are worn,
| For lawn tennis, tucked materials,
tucked skirts and belted waists will be
much used this season, especially by
young girls.
The latest rage is the knitting of a
species of rug, with short lengths of wool
upon foundation of Irvine, which has all
the effect, and is as endurable as the
famous rugs of Smyrna. The idea comes
to US from England.
A very good way to arrange a Mother
Hubbard for girl of ten or twelve is to
place broad belt across the front at the
waist line, extending only to the side
seams, and held in to the body by an in
terror belt. which hooks under the loose
folds of the dress at the back.
Grays, fawns, particularly smoke and
moonlight grays, soft wood browns, aud
quiet colors of this description. will be
very much in vogue this spring, and very
desirable in surahs and such silky mate
rails as the new soft-fnished poplins.
Spring costumes are already in prepare
ton in these colors, with small, straight
visites, trimmed with fringe or fringed-
out ruchings to match, or velvet and che
mile tails.
Garnets are fast recovering their old
fashioned popularity.
Light-white cotton tulle is now orna-
mented with gold-edged chenille flowers,
or tufts, from which loose chenille ring |
bauos PIorvors xyorIra5 an fba t1,IIa with |
floss silk and gold tinsel, or fine chenille, |
look even richer than the frst-named. |
The elegant effect of silk gauze, thickly |
dotted over with knots and loops, is quite |
charming.
The shapes of bonnets and hats as thus |
far displayed in Partisan patterns and |
other imported models are almost without |
exception neat, trim and stylish. Black, |
brown, and brown with tinge of red in |
it, abound among the new straws in |
Milan braid, Dunstable, and satin braid.
Some of the new fancy straws are mingled |
with fine silver or gold cord, Thus impart-
ing gay appearance to the somber bown
or black bonnet. The fshwife poke, the
modified Hubbard bonnet, the graceful
gypsy shape, and the capote of perennial
popularity, all reappear among the popu-
lar spring models. This ladylike little
head-covering, dear to the heart of French
women, holds its own season after season,
only modified by the time of year and the
occasion for its wear. Its unassuming
shape makes it very good form for any
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tractive just now as an accompaniment to
the costume of cloth, and plain velvet is
its garniture. 1t is still the fancy of the
season to mass all trimmings on the front
of this and other bonnets, giving high
stylish effect over the wearer's coronet Of
wavy hair. This mode of arranging
flowers and feathers is very becoming to
round or oval faces, but exceedingly inap-
propiate to a lady with long aiender