Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-03-20


net, bronze and drab are worn by elderly as
well as by younger women.
BLACK SILK and fine glossy black alpaca are
the materials used for the long petticoat worn
under the skirt of street frOckS.
SPRING JACKETS of fine striped or checked
cheviot are trimmed with cord ornaments, the
Guns being OF MORE antique or velvet.
CASHMERE and camel's hair are used in COM
bination with novelty wooden goods for young
women, and with watered silk Tor older ones
SOME OF THE NEW Wool CASvAsEs are
striped with velvet, others with plush and still
others with chenille bands between those of
WOOL
FLOWERS will be used in proftlsion to trim
the summer ball costumes making clasps, belts
and necklaces, besides the usual wreaths and
garlands.
"FAIRY LIGHTS" is the name given to the new
English dinner table lamps, which are set in
the middle of a flower vase and shaded with
coored glass.
WHEN Hooks AND EYES are used to fasten
the bodices of dresses they are so placed mid
the fuiness OF the plastrOn waistcoat as to be
Invisible.
WHEN THE SACQUE-FoRM of frock is used
Tor little girls it is now trimmed as to simu-
late a long, round waist and full skirt with high
hip draperies.
LADIES CLOTH BoDICEs of brown, blue, gray
and red are worn with skirts of figured, plain
or striped material and are trimmed hussar
fashion with cord.
IMMENSELY BIG BUTToNS-too large to pass
through buttOnhOe-are used simply deco
ratlFciy, being sewed on dresses that are fas-
tened with hooks and eyes.
SCARFS OF SATIN MERyEILLIEUx with OPEN
work embroidery, and also of batiste and linen
in the same style, will be worn as adjustable
draper1eS for summer dresses.
The London Lancet is using it's steel on the
rubber overcoat, asserting that some of the
very worst forms of muscular rheumatism
come from wearing rubber waterproof gar
mentS.
THE LEG-'o-MUTToN SLEEVE saws the New
York Ecening Post, appears upon some OF the
antique house dresses made in Paris tor early
spring Wear-these mostly in 'early English
style.
SILK GLOVES for the evening were never so
pretty and tastefully trimmed, and the most
lovely shades in cream, pink sky blue gold
and tan have lace embroidered tops of the
same hue.
JERSEYS CONTINUE IN FAVOR and are as
varied in design as dress bodices. Some are
covered with beads in u variety of patterns:
others have vests, collars and cuffs of velvet,
plush or surah.
THE clothing Gazette for March predicts, but
deprecates, a change in the near future in the
form Of gentlemen's evening full DRESS The
new style proposed is the cavaliers costume of
two centuries ago.
COTTON DRESSES with white muslin guimpes
and dog collars of embroidery or velvet will be
much worn. Sometimes the guimpe is supple
mented by vest harmOniZing or contrasting
with the dress.
ENTIRE OvERDRESSES of wool guipure made
up without lining will be worn over silk slips for
semi-dress occasions, and fine grades Of wool
,guipure net will be conspicuous in dresses pre-
pared for summer resorts.
A GYPSY BONNET of fancy straw has the brim
lined with ecru silk, closely shirred. 1t is
trimmed with q cluster of hedge roses with
of l,n
same tint as the lining.
SILVER DISHES, silver tea and coffee urns
silver soup tureens, silver candlesticks, and all
sorts of silver decorative pieces for breakfast
favor, and are more favored than ever.
BoNNETs with no trimming except diadem
front of beads or of velvet, differing in color
from the crown, are now making in Paris for
the summer and, plain as they are, the MILL
ners regard them with favor as another blow
at the bird and feather fever.
AN ENGLISH DOCTOR thinks that it light be as
we'll to amputate the second toe before trying
to wear narrow French boots with pointed tips
According to him the number which have to
be amputated after the wearing is really alarm
ing.
THE LATEST FANCY IN FLOWER DECORATIONS
for dinner parties is to erect q canopy of net
over the table and from it suspend cut flowers
and small bouquets, forming a crazy quilt pat
tern of color and a cloud Of bloom over the
neaOS OF the guests.
THE Cloak and Suit RerieaO for March calls at
tenton to the fact that when tabernacle
dresses first came in they were models of SIM
plic1ty and easy-fitting gracefulness, but that
now they are almost as much pinched, padded
and punched about as dressmaker's frock
THE Young Ladies' Journal for April with its
Gigantic supplements of fashions and fancy
work is out. These alone would make it worth
double its subscription price, and then in this
nd ha fFSf ton aho of
Miss Florence Marryats new serial "Miss Har-
rington's Husband
A TEA-GOwN OF MOss-GREEN PLUSH has q
| wide band of tapestry wrought in soft colors,
with here and there CLINT of bright golden
yellow and bit of dark red on white plush. A
narrow band Of the tapestry covers the back
| seam of the elbow sleeves, and the turned-down
square collar Is also formed of it.
| A DRESS OF WHITE EXAMINE with lace
border has the skirt made with wide plaits.
| bordered with the trimming. The short apron
drapery Is bordered in the same way. The
plated bodice has the high collar, cuffs and
plastron of black velvet. The broad sash at the
| LETT side is also OF black velvet.
| A COSTUME OF BLACK FAILLE FRANCHISE
has plated skirt with long straight drapery
| at the back. The vest, collar and cuffs are of
plomb gray satin. The mantel is made round
| Ing at the back, and has long tabs in front. It
Is edged with marabOut trimming, and is lined
with plomb gray satin. The bonnet is of black
faille Franchise, with monture of plomb gray
metal OATS and an aigrette to correspond. The
strings are of pearl edged plomb ribbon.
The NOVELTIES IN FRocKs for little girls
emphasize the fact that there is q complete de.
| parture In the outlines Of form in childrens
clothing. The waists are nearly all round and
| short, with no belts. The V-shaped back and
front of the body, the absence of sleeves and
the use Of the white guimpe are almost uni
versal. The skirts are plain, made of straight
breadths, fingered and gathered full on to The
waist. Sometimes the skirts are cut on the
| bias, especially when the material is Checked
| or barred silk or wool
The NEW COTTON GOODS. says Hdrpers Ba-
zdr, are 80 handsome that 1t is safe to predict
another season Of favor for them; they resemble
| India silks in their softness, In colors and in
designs, and modiStes are making them up In
| the fanctful and somewhat elaborate manner
| used for summer silks. The novel idea is thin
cotton fabrics that do not look like lawn but
like game or the old-time bareges. because they
| are SO thinly woven. These comet poppy red
with black figures like hierogiiphics, or In Japan
csc blue shades, with white, red or blue wavy
| lines, and dotted figures in pale rose, with red
outlines Of leaves, or cream strewn with blue
or pale blue with yellow. Stripes are also shown
In these new stufS in tricolOrs, sometimes red
| white, and blue, while Others are brown, buzz
and blue. or pink with green and mauve.