Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-14
THE SPRING FASHIONS.
fHE NEW coLoRs-THE NEW wooLEN LACEs-
STRING wEDDISGs-GLovEs FOR EVENING
WEAR-vELvEr RIBBONS, ETC


bail dresses
SURAHs ARE RESTORED to popular and FASH
tonable favor.
The ORGAN-FLUTED MUsKMELoN WAIST Is
revived this spring.
MARABoUT TRIMMINGS are very fashionable
Tor ball dresses
SELvETs CoNE WITH SPRING DRESS goods as
well as with fall fabrics.
9EzL OR APRICOT l. Il fayorite shade in satin
toilets this season
The PRINCEsSE STYLE OF DRESS is in high
favor for new evening toilets.
SLEEVES OF EVENING DRESSES are as short
and gloves as long as ever.
HATS WILL BE WoRS almost TO the exelu-
sion OF bonnets in the spring.
ETAMISE STRIPED AND BRoCHK with velvet
comes among spring novelties.
AMONG OTHER fANCIFTL BODICES are some
with lengthwse organ pleats.
fULLE NAMES MUCH MORE BECOMING
bridal veil than lace, real or imitation.
GOLD AND SILVER BRAID will be used TO
excess in trimming spring cashmeres.
SOFT SrRAH SAsHEs are worn around the
waist under Zouave and Eton jackets
WATERED SILK is again In vogue as colno1-
nation with cashmere and czSInels hair fabrics
It's Pity, But lis TRUE: the hair il worn
higher and higher ON the head from week 10
Week
THE CASHMERE Brooches brought out this
FENCING Is AGAIN SPo&ES OF as a fashion
able amusement and gymnastic exercise for
ladies.
TIE EVENING CoLoRS Of the passing moment
sfe heiiotropr. ecru and rose ia many different
shades
RID IN MANY PECULIAR AND BRIGHT TINTs
Is among the most popular colors i'll spring mill
linery.
MEruLtS LACE forms the feet Of the newest
l.. t,-sd ay
maids Wear.
MOSF OF TIE STRING NEwMARKETS have
either pointed or rounded hoods lined with
changeabic or light red silk.
For MoKNING AND DAYLIGHT WEAR the
fayoriic cGlor~ are browns, dark blues, Bordeaux
wines, greens and lawns.
II Is SAID THAT WHEN the real spring hats
and bonnets appear they will be in holder and
higher shapes tnan ever.
FIGURED AND PLAIN TRICoTINE SAT1Ns that
simulate Jersey webbing come among other
dress novelties at Denping's.
THE EroN IS NEW CUTAwAY JACKET,
pointed in the back and very short on the sides,
where it barely reaches the waist line.
GOLD AND SILVER BRAID, and all sorts Of
gold decorative objects trim many hats and
bonDets intended Tor e:zrly spring wear.
A FRENCHY LOOKING TEA gown made of
palest blue satin embroidered all over in de-
sign of moss rosebuds and trimmed with Valen-
clenneS lace.
some in design. They will make graceful and
stylish trimming and are TO be had In almost
any color.
EVEN ELDERLY LADIES will wear hats in
tine spring, for all the bonnet shapes are very
small, eccentric. and suitable only for evening
Wear or Nr very young faces.
NECKLACES ARE MADE in workmanship al
most as tine as filigree, and mostly after Greek
ana Etruscan models, while bracelets still keep
70 the sporting style of ornament.
The NEWEST TRIMMING FOR HATS consists
Of dried twigs, snsy or in punches, either var
nished or giIded. and through which tiny
beetle or some pretty insect appears to be creep
Ing.
MANY BLACK CASHMERE SUITS for spring
wear have plain stuff skirts, made in plain,
simple tyles, kits preferred, over which is
broche.
The NEWEST FINISH FOR ZoUAvE AND
EToN JACKETS is to edge them all around with
very small fancy gold, silver or other metal
buttons, set ON So close as to touch but not
overlap, one the other.
FROM BEING WORN on HATS birds have wan
dered down to dresses, where they peep out
from clouds of light tulle or from gold or silver
trimmings mixed with filigree trembling grass,
just as II resting in a nest
SPRING MUFFs are now made of fine crimped
chenille, fringe sewn on tc the small silk foun-
dation in close, over-falling rows. OF course
these NUTS must match the dresses and hats
with which they are worn.
DRESSY NANTLES FOR SPRING WEAR are
made short and fit the figure closely. They are
10 be seen in light and bright colors oftener
than In blacks. Many Of them have full ruch-
ings Of lace bordering them.
BUTTERFLIES OF all sorts and sizes made of
gold or silver fligree. and eolored chenille, are
IN original kind of ornament capable of a vari-
ply of uses. They look very well placed on
The bow OF lady cap, and can also be worn
On theater bOnnets.
A NEW SORT OF MENIT Cams has t,,s+ +urnad
{ up in London. 1t consists Of choosing clever
quotation, such as the host thinks suitable for
sach guest. The name and menu are written
Pm another sheet OF paper, and this is inserted
IN the card by means OIL two Sits.
AMERICA FURNISHES ENORMOUS QUANTI-
TIES of dress and other garment Innings and
tailors trimmings to Europe in the form OF the
Gilbert twtus, three-leap cotton fabrics in
twenty-elgnt varieties of weaving, and I'M
numbered shades OF color and fast blacks.
FENCING COSTUMES FOR LADIES consist of
short full Turkish trousers silk stockings, pat
emf leather boots, jersey jackets, full kilt short
Aktrts reaching just 10 the knee, alligator
leather gauntlets, bucklers or plastrons and
belts, wire sauZe masks, and gold-braided vel
Vet togues-
BRIDES AT SPRING WEDDINGS Will carry
oommoner flowers than orange buds. One
fashionable girl is TO hold big bunch of white
tonquiis gracefully thrown together. Another
is TO have a bouquet of nothing but lilies of the
valley, and q third will carry white lIlacs care
lessiy tied with a bit Of broad satin ribbon.
THE COSMETICS OF THE PARFUMERIE MONTE
CRIsro are in demand at the moment for the
ball season makes sad havoc with the color
Hnothness, and sheen Of beauty's cheek and
these cTeHles tet0tGtiEes, and beautifyiny
masks do the WORK of restoring freshness 10
&he faded face without injury to the health
HANDSOME MATINEE SACQUEs are made of
the new and heavy ''winter quality Of silrah OF
dark Neapolitan cardinal shade These are
warmly lined, and trimmed with lace laid In
Shell pieatiDgS from throat TO hem. this trim
ming held down by bands of velvet covered
with embroidery wrought IN rich India colors
PALE GREEN VELVET AND PALE BUFF
LAWN of the finest sheerest texture Is admira-
bly, combined with pale green satin In a bail
toilet. The richest embroidery decorates the
lawn, which ~ draped as tablier over the
green SATIN skirt, the green velvet forming the
hounce around the bottom OF the petticoat and
handsome corsase and court train siderobes
and rcyeTS-
THE HIGH STIFF COLLARS have agat.l
brought q piece OF velvet round the neck into
fashion with low bodices. Its trimmings are
most Numerous. Gold braid, bugles steel and
glass beads, nligree flowers, Feathers in short
all the eolored tinsel or the day can be used for
be tied with long ends behind, but fastened
with a small bow or flower.
THE TAN-CoLoRED GLOVE Is still worn with
full-dress toilets, but many ladies have grown
tired Of this ugly and seemingly out-oC-piaee
glove, and in its stead is chosen one OF dressed
kid, OF pale corn color, and In many Instances,
the shade reaches exactly the tint OF ne rointki
leaf of the sunnower- The most correct glove
Tor the promenade Is one that matches the CO.'S