Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-04-21
FASHIONABLE Or OTHERWISE.

| FASHIONABLE Or OTHERWISE.
WHITE wooden material has stripes
of colored plush.
| FINE seersucker in pale blue, pink or
ecru, is embroidered with edelweiss in
white.
WHITE etamine has broad and mar
row stripes of heraldic design for trim
ming.
A GRACEFUL design for q door panel
is branch OF Norway fir with the
cones.
CAMBRIA "all-overs," in all colors,
have narrow embroidery to CORE
spond.
LoUIsINEs, with tiny black and white
checks, silver gray in effect, will be
much worn.
EVENING dresses of cream Thibet
canvas have founces embroidered in
delicate colors.
M1KADo parasols have the points
turned upward, and are made of striped
or embroidered silk.
KHYBER cloth robes are shown in
mode colors with frise and coupe vel
vet figures applied with cord of lighter
shade.
SoFT beiges have figured borders of
contrasting or harmonizing tints.
They are also plain and with bourette
stripes.
ALBATRoss cloth has the border of
medieval design in soft colors. Ithas
also frise stripes with embroidery of
heavy silk.
PERSIAN silk with overshot threads
that give g. crinkled effect are shown
in all dark and evening colors. Some
have stripes of different colors.
LIGHTWEIGHT serges are braided with
Hercules braid; with each dress is a
scarf with the ground corresponding,
having Roman stripes at the ends.
WHITE handkerchiefs are bordered
with hand-embroidered daisies in blue,
white or red. Handkerchief for
mourning have the daisies in black.
BLACK kid gloves are stitched and
bordered with tan, and tan-colored
gloves have the stitching and borders
black. Long silk gloves reach over
the shoulder.
FIRE screens of tiny bits of mica set
in daintily wrought brass frames form
an effective protection from the heat
and at the same time prevent view
of the ''fitful freight"
HoRTENsE fabrics ofsatin serge have
contrasting boucle stripes, with tiny
loops Of the finest, softest silk. Some
of these costly fabrics have plush in
stead OF satin stripes.
Tucked canvas is shown in varie-
ty of colors. Three breadths of the
tucked material. forty-fve inches
wide, and four yards Of the plain, are
required for a costume.
Nuns yelling is in great variety; it
has crinkled stripes, or has bourette
or frise surface, the loops being ex-
ceedingly fine. The plain sorts are
finer than those of last season.
TARTAN plaid surah is used for
skirts, the bodice and draperies being
plain surah corresponding to one of
the colors in the plaid. The plSstron,
collar, revers and cuffs are OF plaid.
DIAGONAL camel's hair robes are
embroidered in Mauresque designs
with fine wiry worsted. Red has put
ty-colored embroidery, ecru has blue,
and white is embroidered with white.
FANS of white quill feathers are
mounted on amber handles. They
have birds heads encircled with mar
about feathers just above the point
where the feathers are fastened in the
handle.
VIOLET boxes, made like wedding
cake boxes, of satiny white paper, are
sold, to hold from a dozen to fifty vio-
let's, and are exquisite little gifts to q
friend. The violets must be freshly
picked each morning, and their price
is a matter of perfect fragrance, more
than color.
BEADS are among the favorite trim
mings this season. Jet seems to be
preferred to all other sorts and is
shown in all sizes from the tiniest
grains to balls of cut Jet as large as
crab apples. Smoked pearl beads are
novel and very elegant pattern wraps
are shown with the surface thickly
wrought with them.
For the coming season many dresses
will be made with the entire waist of
one sort of goods and the entire skirt
of another. Cashmere skirts will be
worn with velvet waists, silk waists
and those made of thin materials of
all sorts. There also rich Persian
silks that will be made into waists of
various shapes and worn with thin
white or light-colored skirts of any
material.