Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-08-21
NOTES FOR THE FARM And HOME.
Spring Fashion Notes.

..a. Spring Fashion Notes. r.. .
Hats are very high in the crown and
more or less conical; their brim is OF
various shapes, turned up sometimes on
one side, sometimes on the other. y.
A pretty novelty in jackets, likely to
prove favorite with young ladies, is
made of stockinette, which is embroid-
cred by a new patent process after the
jacket is made up. ..
Silk mitts are very much in demand.
The finer grades of black and colored
mitts are almost perfect works of art,
and with the improved shape they fit
the wrist as closely as they could do if
they were buttoned.
Lapis lazui ball handles, with gilt
claws, are much used now on parasols,
and antique and highly-carved ones.
Also white muslin parasols, matching
the muslin bonnets, are to be the new
est thing this year.
French faille in black and every color,
which is now made with strong and
rather rough surface, will play a great
part in the costumes for summer, as it
Grapes we'll and makes charming orna
mentations.
Gallons studded with steel dots or
stars are used fol- trimming spr; e
Jackets and mantels, which are made of
fancy speckled cloth, lined with thin
silk; they are fastened at the neck with
g steel clasp the sleeve is semi wide,
with velvet facing.
Just now fashions whim is a tea
jacket, made in soft silk, with lace or
gold and silver trimmings, as dressy as
possible. 1t is g. thoroughly comforta-
i; BILE article, intended to be worn for
home dinner, either with any cow en-
lent skirt or before low bodice is put
on, with full dress evening skirt.
A novel trait in spring costumes is
that the sleeves are very much trimmed:
the trimming is put on on the inside
from the shoulder to the bend OF the
arm and consists of passementerie and
fringe, WOODEN lace or braid; if the lat
! ter, 1t is put on in several rows close
together and finished in loops.
The most fashionable materials for
, spring dresses are etanline, WOODEN net
and new style of yelling called voile-
de- misaine, from some fancied resemb-
lance to the texture of sail cloth. All
these fabrics are Of coarse, loose tex
ture, somewhat akin to canvas. Wool
en- net or tulle- de-laino is the most novel
and is made in I'LL colors, but being a
loose. transparent fabric it requires to
be laid on over a silk material which
shows through.
Chauasures.-House shoes OF fine kid,
with pattern of flowers embroidered
over the instep. narrow ruche around
tine edge and small bow at the side of
satin to match. House slippers of
black satin, with border and small bow
Of black satin and red silk lining.
Walking boots Of black kid faced with
shagreen, low heels, pointed toes, fiji
teen small buttons and fancy boots Of
fine French herseymere in tiny black
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and faced with patent leather; fifteen
very small black buttons.
The general aspect Of spring fashions
denotes the most extravagant fancies in
the way of hats and bonnets. The lat
ter are perhaps the most bizarre of the
two. Some have small conical crown
placed very high on the top Of the head
and border lying fiat upon the hair;
others have a high crown, rising straight
up from the back of the head, and
border raised from the forehead, and
laid close over the temples; others, still
more fanciful, are in tho shape Of a
square cap slit open in the middle of
the front; there is no border to speak OF;
the edge is generally trimmed with
beads. There are, however, very pretty
little capotes of colored guipure, and
others of colored Grape, embroidered
with silk OF darker shade.