News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
The Spring Fashions.

The new wool goods for early spring
and summer dresses repeat the etamine
or canvas grounds introduced last sum-
mer, with many now fancies in decor
ating them, says Ha,pe1Is Bazar Velours
etamine is the name given velvet-striped
canvas which comes in wide and mar
row stripes, or in bars or Greek borders
of velvet near one selvage of the plain
square -meshed canvas. Tho popular
width for stripes promises to be one
inch, but many are narrower, and others
are double this width. Two shades Of
one color may be had in stripes, while
others arc in mixed contrasts, such as
brown with rcd, blue with brown, red
with blue, and red with green. Frise
velvet stripes arc on ecru canvas, also
Persian embossed stripes, diagonal silk
stripes, and others with dente1Ie or
lace stripes. Small figures of velvet,
either broche or frise, are also seen on
canvas goods, and many bourette effects
are shown.
A novelty is the COUGHING stripes
woven 10 initiate crewels of rich colors
held by couching stitches in stripes and
bars on various wool grounds. A great
many bordered stuffs are in boucle de-
signs, the mobair curled loops forming
stripes or bars, and sometimes in clus-
ters on other stripes, when they are
made to look like butterflies, and are
called papill0n tripes.
Blue promises to be restored to favor
for spring and summer dresses, and is
seen in pale and dark shades, not omit
ting the Japanese and China blues that
1or in
sateens Tobacco brown, beige, and
drab in many shades are also imported
for the next season, as they always are
in the spring.
Summer homespans are shown in
plain grounds, in wide diagonals, and
In stripes. A great many bourette
woOllens are imported in stripes across
and lengthwise of the fabric, and there
are many xnotted suidngs with irregu-
lar coarse threads all over the surface
The mohAirs that were so popular last
year are seen again in blue. ecr,l, and
silver gray shades, both PLAIN, figured,
and in stripes. Striped Cheviots are
also shown, and the fact is settled that
stripped and bordered stuffs will be
popular in the spring for street suits.
The first spring silks shown have
twilled surfaces, some being in large
diagonals regularly woven like those of
serge, while others are tho smaller, less
defined twills familiar IN silk surahs.
These come in low prices this season,
costing from so cents to $1.25 for goods
in all the favOrite gray, blue, brown and
wine red shades.
India silks of smooth fine surface are
again imported in lengths of seven
yards; two of these lengths are re-
quired for dress, and dealers advise
the purchase of plain and figured silk
of matching colors, but better plan Is
to buy the entire dress alike, as it is not
easy in the present way of combining to
make stylish arrangement of two ma
terials of the same length. The de-
signs are new and intricately laced
palms, arabesques, conventionalized
flowers, and also many stripes. The
dark indigo blues with white and red
sprays, roses, coral branches, ETC., are
shown again, but the lighter porcelain
blue and the Mikado designs are newer.
Outline flower patterns on cream
grounds, and bright poppy red figures
on pale ecru, are cool and summery-loOk-
ing, and there are the excellent tussore
silks in pongee cOlors for useful and de-
sirable dresses; the latter are yard
wide, and cost $40 for a length of nine
yards.
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