Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-31
FASHEONABLE OR RWISE.'


SHOES and boots are less pointed,
but not square-toed.
PALE bronze is popular color in
spring goods.
BIG and little bonnets will both be
fashionably worn this spring.
SKIRTS of street suits are made long
er and barely escape the sidewalk.
STRIPES of all widths and in every
variety of cluster are immensely pop
ular.
SPRING jackets are made longer, but
remain shorter in the back than in the
front.
THE pointed waistcoat front is the
marked feature in young girls spring
frocks.
LONG wraps will be worn only for
travelling and rainy weather this
spring.
PLAID buttons of ivory and of mo-
hair come among other novelties in big
buttons.
DRAPERIEs thecoming season will be
worn both long and ample, short and
bouffant.
The new crinkled seersuckers are al
most as warm as if they were wooden,
instead of cotton.
ANOTHER season Of black hosiery is
predicted, but not to the exclusion of
colored stockings.
WHITE petticoats are no longer worn
directly under the dress skirt, except
for indoor toilets.
FASHION DEGREES that old and elderly
ladies may wear colors as well as
black and dark gray.
CORDEREINE is the abbreviaton of
corde de Ia refine, the sister fabric of
corduroy, it's older big brother.
DARK blue, dark green, pansy shades,
garnet, bronze and drab are worn by
elderly as well as by younger women.
SOME of the new dresses have full
over-skirts shirred on to the long
bodice, which is pointed back and
front.
SHORT loose Jacket fronts opening
over long-pointed waist-coats are seen
on some of the new spring street
dresses.
BLACK silk and fine glossy black ala
paca 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 cuffs being of MORE
antique or velvet.
SOME of the new wool canvases are
striped with velvet, others with plush
and still others with chenille bands be-
tween those of wool.
CASHMERE and camel's hair are used
in combination with novelty wooden
goods for young women, and with
watered silk for older ones.
''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 colored glass.
FLOWERS will be used in profusion
to trim the summer ball costumes,
making clasps, belts and necklaces, be-
sides the usual wreaths and garlands.
WHEN hooks and eyes are used to
fasten the bodices of dresses they are
so placed amid the fullness of the
plastron waistcoat as to be invisible.
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.
SCARFs of satin merveillieux with
openwork embroidery, and also of ba-
tiste and linen in the same style, will
be worn as adjustable draperies for
summer dresses.
IMMENSELY big buttons-too large
to pass through buttonhole-are
used simply decoratively, being
sewed on dresses that are fastened
with hooks and eyes.
SILK gloves for the evening were
never so pretty and tastefully trimmed,
and the most lovely shades i'll cream,
pink, sky blue, gold and tan have lace
embroidered tops of the same hue.
The London Lancet is using its
steel on the rubber overcoat, assert
ing that some of the very worst forms
OF muscular rheumatism come from
wearing rubber waterproof garments.
THE leg-'o-mutton sleeve, says the
New York Evening Post, appears up
on some of the antique house dresses
made in Paris for early spring wear
these mostly in ''early English" style.
A True Story.