The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-03-11

blue, Scotch bingham, 40 cents, $3.50;
white embroidered pattern dress, $3.50;
10 yards brown figured de Laine, a bar
gain, $2.G0; black Spanish lace fichu,
$500. Total, $4S.56.
FIVE HANDSOME COSTUMES.
This will give the owner, practically,
five handsome costumes, the only one not
complete being the de Lame, which has
a pretty cowslir figure and will be used
for the house over brown silk skirt
already in possession. The silk dress will
be really handsome, and accompanied by
a small vlsite or mantle to match; the
trimming is much richer than lace and
the additional cost will be only that of
fitting and stitching some portions. The
black lace tichu will be employed for the
street, with the gingham in two shades of
gray blue; and with this will be worn also
a black straw hat or bonnet, trimmed with
feathers taken off a winter bonnet. A
brown straw bonnet, cost S1.75, will be
purchased to wear with the belize and an
ulster for travelling and black lace bon
net made to wear with the silk, the mate
rial being already in possession; in fact,
being real, having done duty two summers
and upon two different frames previously.
1T is so easy to make up summer
clothes" remarks the purchaser of these
goods, when displaying them to friend;
and especially now when skirts are less
complicated and trimmings are ready to
your hand. The only dress that will give
me any trouble will be the bingham. That,
l want to lay in an infnitude of small
tucks, so as to bring the lines close to-
gether; and though it will not be difficult
it will take time and be tedious work"
Just the work; it is difficult to buy at
any price," remarked the friend.
Cottons are very cheap this spring, and
40 cents per yard may be considered un-
necessarily high; but the prices that are
given are those which were paid; and the
Scotch zephyr ginghams always retail at
the same price. Black silks are offered
very low just now; the popularity of the
surah, mervilleuxs and rhadams having
seriously interfered with the failles and
gros-grains, which formerly had the field
nearly all to themselves. No better silks
may be desired than the American surahs,
velontines, ottomans and brocades upon
ottoman grounds. The valentines" are
ottomans with a somewhat less heavy cord
and soft, dull satin finish. The wear
is excellent and the appearance greatly
superior to an ordinary faille. The new
dotted surahs are an American manufac-
ture, and great care is taken in the finish
and in matcing them with plain silks.
THE ULSTER AND THE JACKET
have quite resumed their sway over the
between season" mind. The spring ul
ster is made of elastic cloth, is close-fit
ting but open, or filled in at the back with
straight folds, close and compact but not
fiat. Above this, cords or an ornament OF
some kind is placed. The newest buttons
are carved wood, but if they are hand
some and modern it makes little differ
ence whether carved wood or metal OF
smoked pearl are used. The jackets are
plain, but we'll cut and lined, and display
buttons rather larger than the listers
Braided jackets always fail of appre
citation. Many have been the attempts tc
make them lead" the market, but they
always sink into seoond-rate or third-rate
and the plain designs, good in cut, gen
uine in material, and with rich interior
facings and buttons, take easily the posi-
ton of superiority.
Among imported garments, the "sling'
cape, shaped and held i'll at the back, ha
made its appearance, and is SO simple
stylish and easily adjusted, that it ough
to become favorite 1t was very fash
ionably worn in Paris last year, and vii
doubtless DO SO again, for fashions al
ways last two years, at least, abroad; an,
if it could be reproduced here, at some
thing like French cost, it would certainl,
become favorite. What was said of out
door jackets may be repeated, with truth
of Jerseys" which, just now, occupy I
rather anomalous position. Great sale
of these garments have taken place thi
spring, at which prices fell far below tn,
cost of production. A great effort has beer
made to diversity them; to give them thu
: appearance of stylish little basque
They have been cut short, aud pointed
: and with small lappels. They have beer
!, braided, embroidered, and edged witt
beads, and yet they are left in heaps up
on the shelves. For the plain unvar
nished, old-fashioned kind there is
steady demand for growing girls, anC
for ladies of good figure, who have
Z skirt to wear out thome; but the attemp
to put them in the place of the dres
basque or jacket has proved an absolut
i failure; and the lesson must have cos
: some people good deal of money.
, SPRING OPENINGS
: are things of the past; or, rather they tax
Y place every day in the week. Straw bon
!, diets of every shade, to match every color
: and Of every variety of size and shape
!, were displayed early in February, and tn
= new (old) ribbons with ''purled" an
"picot" edges have also made their az
pearance in striped canvass, striped an
= lowered gauze, and in the tufted chenill
, upon gauze, of last year. There are
vast number of millinery tissues, so tina
, it must be work of some judgemen
and discrimination for country buy
ers to select what will pleas
their patrons; but they are all pretty t
look at; and that is the principal thin
when the object is to get the money bac
. which they have cost.
"CoYoc."
A mysterious and original card with tn
=. above legendary, wild Indian sort O
character, has recently found its way t
D certain individuals. 1t invites attentio
to an enterprise initiated by a young lad
I whose first name is most appropriated
y "Rebel." Coyoc means, or rather stand
: for "Courage of your convictions;" an
r the courageous young woman proposes t
/ design for any other woman, origins
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