National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-01-31
FASHIONS FANCIEs.

FASHIONS FANCIES.
Crazy patchwork bags and reticules are all
the rage.
The dressy black fabrics are of silk, satin,
and cashmere.
Blondes affect black tulle ball dresses with
embroiderles of jet,
Pink in all shades Is the Partisan passion OF
the passing moment
The navy blouse suit for little girls Is re-
vived for spring wear
The sleeves of all babies dresses for all oc-
casions are dcrigIe,T long.
Aurora pink, warm golden rose, Is the lat
est shade Of the fashionable color.
Even tho fine ribbed knit or woven merino
shirts for babies have long sleeves.
A moderate sized tournure gives style To
costume, but big hustle is hideous.
Novelties In stationary mr." hemstitched and
raw edge or "unhemmed paper"
Jet beading hats bid fair to be as amending
and everlasting fashion as sealskin fur.
Round hats grow taller In the crown and
narrower In the brim in the back as winter
advances.
old.fashioned long scarfs will be worn for
spring wraps.
, Heliotrope which Is as fashionable for
color as for a perfume, comes in seven diff
ferent shades.
An eccentric cap, relegated to children's
wear, is something between the Mephisto-
pholes toque and the Polish chapska.
Kate Greenaway. children all in row, pug
dogs In a row. and kittens in a row, arc found
among paper weights in metal and brass.
A popular trimming for skirts 10 Nutrition
composed OF velvet ribbons, which begin on the
hips and cover the whole skirt In diagonal
rows.
Small velvet nantes, trimmed with Chan.
tilly or other laces, will be worn in February
and March.
Small carricks, with several capes OF very
light cloth, are to be worn for spring wraps.
Long Jackets like those worn by grown ladies,
are the style for children.
The founces of passemcnterio lace are set on
plain and separated by broad fold OF the stuff
used. The same lace is also used for plastrons,
bretelles, and corsage revers.
Great economy is possible In combination
dresses when short lengths of fabrics are to he
| found on remnant counters. These dresses
are most effective for house wear.
Wooden laces of all colors. with the design
embroidered with gold and steel, are much
used In evening toilets Corsages are also COW
| mantlettes are worn.
The use Of ftlrs will be prolonged through
| the spring frosts. For March fur depdssdRtS or
| very narrow borders of furs set underneath
the edge to be trimmed 10 as TO just show, will
DO the prevailing styles.
French ladies carry hand.painted satin bags,
with gold clasps, In the heads of which dia-
monds and other precious stones are set, They
come high, Meissonnier having charged 81 900
for executing design on one OF them.
The imperial mantle worn by Sarah Bern
hardt In Theodore" cost 81, 900. II is of blue
satin, bordered with gold, and sewn with pea
ana ruby eyes The original is said to have
cost 5000 900.
While the popular taste Is for combining
wool and velvet, there are also many dresses
that are partly of the plain gros grains, or of
woollen goods are used for overdresses and
the silkcn fabrics forthe skirts or parts of the
skirt such as panels on the front.
Figured stuiis are now used In plain lengths
that display the pattern woven upon them, in
break up the design in Which their beauty con- con-
ssts. For this reason the figured goods now
most often appear in the lower parts of the
dress, while the upper part, which requires
many seams or much fullness, Is OF plain
goods.
A study of the fashions will impress one Of
| the existence of two distinct schools; one in
ssting on change, which seems TO take a
backward course, the other expressing salts
school clngs to draperles and panlers OF all
| kinds, while the latter advocates the hanging
| of skirts In soft folds, and dlsCards all bum
dies preierring single skirt with trimmings
at the bottom.
A new French creation is described as a
dress made of velvet on one side the other
being of broCaded satin, literally ne.half
the dress, including the coIsage, from top to
bottom, being made OF one of these fabrics and
| the other half ofthe other, This Is not pretty,
and is only endurable II the colors are we'll
chosen aud II the plain fabric of ono side Is of
the exact shade Of the ground of the figured
| stuff OF the other
The Russian blouse Ia the favorite morning
various ways, both double and single breasted,
with half belt in which case the back is
deliberately shirred, and with belt all around
tied in front, on, the side, or on the back, rs
may be preferred But however II may vary
in details, tho Russian blouse is always full
| and without trimming 10 VIII be made of
smooth or rough wool with skirt TO match,
or else of the new striped pushes and frlse
velvets,
The black cashmere dresses for plain wear
should be made plainly, as If of cloth, or else
ornamented with rows of narrow isautache,
| The more dressy ones have rowssot silver
braid or OF gilt that Is mixed with black. For
handsome wool dresses five yards Of black
Cashmere of nice quality are chosen for the
basque, the draped back OF the skirt and a
slight front drapery, while the remainder ofthe
skirt and the vest are made of the brocades
| That copy the large rose designs OF Spanish
lace, and are outlined with a cord. The lrise
Nelvets are also combined with tine black
| cashmere.
Early spring dresses for little girls are ex-
tremely pretty. The English tTock, the practi.
cal and convenient sash dress In one piece
which leaves the child at full liberty, Is the
theme, which Is subjected to many variations
Most of these dresses have bouifant plastron
forming an intrinsic part of the waist or skirt,
Sometimes the waist Is made separate, In the
shape of either y long basque or Jacket open.
ing over n pustron and trimmed with bufton
holes corresponding to buttons placed on each
side of the plagtrOn. Many details in these
dresses are copied from the toilettes of grown,
up DANES, such as the combination Of figured
silk; metal clasps fastening together the sides
OF the long jackets under the boufant plas'
iron aCariS Of striped stuff arranged so us TO
square haps-all ofwhich are copied from the
dresses OF their elders