Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-25
THE SPRING FASHIONS.
PARAsoLS AND HANDKERCHIEFS-RINGC CLOTH
SUMNER FABRICS-ELEGANT SIMPLICITY
AND RICH GOODS WHICH ARE CHEAP.


SUMNER FABRICS-ELEGANT SIMPLICITY
AND RICH GOODS WHICH ARE CHEAP.
THE RAGE FOR TINsEL is on the increase.
Laps LAZULI is the newest shade of blue.
JERSEY CORSET COVERS bid fair to supersede
all Others
PARAsoLs HAVE CANOPY round, and mush-
room tops.
THE JACKET is the street wrap for young
ladies under twenty-five.
MORE AND MORE POPULAR grows the jersey
Jacket waist. and webbing.
THE PRETTY BEIGE and almond tinted dresses
are revived. and find as much favor as they
met twenty-five years ago.
THE CLEFT BRIM BONNET grows slowly in
favor with American women.
UPHOLSTERY CREPEs are handsome French
novelties for furnishing purposes.
ENTIRE PoLoSAISEs OF BLACK lace are made
TO wear over black or cOored dresses.
ALL TINTED SHOT, brOcaded and threaded
stuffs. trimmings and laceS are popular, but
gold Is the leading metal in tinsei goods.
THE SHORT PELERINE MANTLE, short and
tight in the back, high on the shoulders and
loose in front, is the leading spring wrap.
THE NEW SHAPED SLEEVES of evening robes
fail to invite the critical comment secured by
the total absence of covering on the neck and
arms OF "A fair woman.
BoNNETs AND HATS having been written
about al nauseam this spring, it is only neceS-
sary to say that they do not grow any prettier
as the season advances.
HANDKERCHIEFs ARE purely ornamental.
They are small, with colOred borders, delicate
ly embroidered, and enriched in one corner
with design or monogram.
A DAINTY LITTLE fashion is introduced of
having card case made to match the calling
costume, and any lady can easily make one to
match any dress she desires
SAsHES of watered ribbon, which are 8, 10 and
even Is INCHES wide, worn finishes for
elegant indoor and walking toilets, and are
especial favortes with young ladies.
ELECTRIC BLUE kHAYYAN SERGE forms
costume with full skirt edged with three bands
of shot-fiame colored and bronze silk covered
with gold-threaded, tiame-colOred WOODEN lace.
THE KEYNOTE of this season seems To- be en-
broidery. 1t is used upon every thing-dresses,
bOnnets, ribbons. laces, trimmings and fabrics
OF every description for under and outside wear.
LAWNS with small figures made up with
open N-shaped bodices edged with lace and
belted with soft silk the color of the figure or
they are finished with Swiss bodices in silk or
velvet.
ONE OF THE latest coiffures sent out from
Paris is composed of mass of short curs, so
difficult to execute properly that most ladies
who prefer this style of hair dressing buy
curled wig and have done with it. 1t costs less
in the end.
PLAIN GRAY CoTToNs AND GRAY-BLUE are
made up with red to look very pretty for coun-
try wear The red sometimes forms a frilling,
over which the contrasting color is cut out in
forms tucked vest
CHENILLE TRIMMINGS will remain fashion
able, and we shall have chenille embroideries,
passementeries of chenille and silk, chenille
and velvet or beads. among others beads cut
with facets which glitter brilliantly, and are of
al tints and cOlOrs.
TRICoTRINE is wooden fabric of foreign
weave, showing basket patterns in large and
small designs. Tricotine, a silken material. is
an American production of fine light texture,
with jersey woven surface. 1t is shown in
all seasOnatae colors and pretty designs.
THE NEW WAY of trimming parements and
collars is to arrange row OF gold, steel or silver
braid or jet passementerie round the collar,
which closes on the left shoulder. A narrow
edge OF cOlOred satin should show all round
from beneath the collar and parements.
VERY PRETTY FICHUs are made in soft folds
of gold or silver dotted tulle or muslin, to pass
round the throat and cross low upon the front
of the bodice. The neck is completed by band
of velvet edged with standing lace, and the
ends with lace and group of velvet and satin
loops.
AMONG THE POPULAR GOODS in all black is
the fabric known ring cloth, material
which is as transparent as gauZe, but as strong
as grenadine. 1t is so fine and elastic that it is
said the entire width of the goods can be drawn
through an ordinary finger ring, hence its
name.
: NEW BRAID is of coppery-eolored gold; 1t is
narrow aud set up on the material in knife
face. 1t is used for vests and standing mill
tary' collars. 1t looks exceedingly well upon
the light vicuna cloths which are fashionable
this spring.
STRIPES ARE VERY FAsHIoNABLY WORN as
underskirts with tunics and bodices or polon-
aises of plain material, with the striped goods
introduced on the bodice as plastron, waist
coat or collar and rerers. With such dresses
double TUNES are sometimes employed gener-
ally of the shawl point form, one of the stripe
and the other the plain material.
THE EXAMINE FABRICS are the novelties and
they are always in combination patterns, plain
with clustered and shaded stripes of velvet or
chenille, or figures, not large and usually in
soft dark tints the striped or figured part being
used for drapery, for panels or front, and for
would have been called canvas grenadine a few
years ago.
SCOTCH GINGHAMs are in special request
and among the best grades are shown hand
some-loOking embroidered ginghams matching
the solid colors heretofore in stock These
come In boxes, and are warranted fast colors'
and exceedingly durable. These, with the new
chamberys and zephyrs, are special favOrites
Tor ladies VINO prefer neat and dreSsy washable
goods for morning wear during the summer.
ALL THE NEW ZoCAvE AND RUSSIAN JACK.
ETs of velvet, silk satin are overweight or
bordered with gold or silver mbroidery, beaded
laces, applique bands of jet raised work in
silk or chenille These Jackets trim and
stylish and a lady of even moderate means can
easily afford one of the richest description, as,
but little material and but few yards Of TRIM
ming.
ONE OF REDFERN's New York novelties in
dress trimmings consists OF narrow braid formed
OF lines crossing and recrossing each other so as
to form a design clearly marked by the open
spaces that intervene. This is laid as q plas-
tron down the front OF the dress, and has q very
novel and pretty effect when the colors are
well-chosen as in the instance of pale gray VIC
una cloth and navy blue braid-a happy COM
bfnatiOn. The collar and deep cuffs are also
trimmed with this braid, wrought in similar
design suited TO the purpose.
ELEGANT SIMPLICITY will be one of the ar.
bitrary requirements of visiting and dinner
costumes even Of the richest description this
summer. Less adjoining will be seen, and more
care and thought will be devoted to the perfect
mt and artistic draping of these toilets. A very
rich and elegant model Is dinner dress OF
golden brown Lyons satin, the back portion of
the skirt arranged in three full undraped
breadths of the satin. trimmed only with Il SIM
pie kniie-pleated ruffie which edges the entire
skirt In front long full apron Overdress
laid in wide pleats al the top, and at the sides
simply joins the full drapings at the back. Be-
low the fifth button on the bodice, a vest of
silk, covered with n solid and superb embrod-
cry in shaded bronze beads, is set in, and the
very high military collar and the outside por-
lions Of the sleeves are likewise adorned.
THERE ARE FEWER EXPENSIVE FABRICS in
market this season than have appeared for
many years. Novelties crowd the shop WIN
dows and counters, which prove far too tempt
ing both In price and quality to be passed by
without purchase, and the more expensive
goods are accordingly left unsold. The passing