The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-03-27
FASHION NOTES.
SPring styles Sanctioned by the Leaders o.
New York Society.

rette goods.
Clustered stripes are feature in all
spring goods.
Correct mourning jewelry is of Eng
hsh Grape stone.
All sorts of straws will be worn in
hats and bonnets this spring.
Even new pongees come IN bourette
or boutonneux and corded stripes.
The Russia blouse frock is worn by
little girls and small boys under five.
The latest novelty in fancy slippers
are those embroidered with garnet
beads.
Low shoes, worn with paste or Rhine
stone buckles, are choice for house
wear.
New spring hats are tall and are
trimmed high in the back, the front, or
on one side.
All bonnets have high crowns and
brims small, but little larger than
those of last year.
The latest fancy in splashers are
large fans spread against the wall be-
hind the washstand.
Very large and deep collars of en-
broidery are a feature in little girls and
small boys spring dress.
The embroidered harlequin shoe,
with harlequin stocking to match, is
lste English hosiery fancy.
Browns, tans, creams. and nasturti-
um reds preponderate over grays in
new woolens for spring wear.
Bolders for entire skirts for side and
back panels and for parts of frocks are
the feature in spring styles.
The brims of new spring hats are
neither vide nor eccentric. They are
narrower in the back than in front.
Black, dark green and brown form
the largest proportion of dresses worn
in the stress by New York women.
Even thenew cheviots come in bou-
tonneux, boucle and corded stripes and
borders to becombined with plain chey
lot
Very wide and half-inch to a quarter
of an inch white Hercules braid is the
popular trimming for little girls French
frocks.
Kabyle or Berber jewelry of silver is
a lately introduced novelty in England.
1t comes from the borders of the desert
of Sahara.
Elbow and three quarter length
sleeves will be almost universally worn
by fashionable women this spring, with
street as well as house dresses.
Some of the new Paris bonnets have
perfectly square crowns, with but little
brim to speak of, but the profuse trim
mings hide the shape of the bonnet.
Birds for ball dress trimming come
among special fancy novelties. They
are feathers and silk chenille with wings
of frosted metal in all colors.
The use of plush and velvet in stripes
and borders on etamine or canvas
grounds, in two or more colors and
shades, is a feature in spring wool and
silk goods.
Only a few brocades in set figures
appear among spring silk or wooden
stutfs, and in those few the designs are
small or medium sized. not large or
pronounced.
''Stable clothes,'' that is to say,
tailor-made suits, jackets and new
markets, will be the style for making
up the new wooden and wool mixtures
of the incoming season.
Little girls frocks now have regular
waists but no belts, a sash from under
the arm to tie in the back, and V
bodice in the laced-up Gretchen or
peasant style that was introduced last
year.
Only French frocks for little girls are
made with sacque or gabrielle waists,
and they are now made shorter with Il
deep long V in front and sailor or
Dauphin collar in the back, terminating
in long revers in front turning back
from the V-shaped waistcoat.
Bonnets have Fanchon, Normandy,
and cap crowns. and brims of various
kinds, converting the bonnet into a
capote, with close, flaring, cleft irregu-
lar, or regular brim at pleasure, while
give conical or pyramidal effect to
the whole.
The skirts of little girls French
frocks are made very full, either
pleated or gathered on long sacque
bodice, finished at the line of juncture
with a pretty scarf sash of one of the
materials or of very wide Hercules
braid formed into bow on one side of
the front breadth.
Among novelties in embroidery are
borders or founces forty inches, wide
enough to form the entire skirt below
| the hip yoke of nainsook, swiss, null
Or canvas dress. These embroideries
in white French nainsook are used for
the duplicated skirts of little girls
Gretchen dresses.
For ladies who do not like to wear a
stiff hustle or tournure, the best substi-
tute is a cambria. petticoat with Hounces
all the way from the waist line to the
bottom on the back breadth, which the
laundress should be instructed to starch
very stiff and smooth with her hands,
but not iron, 50 as to retain all the
starch.
Stripes and blocks of variously woven
stufs are surrounded and outlined in
some of the spring woolens with strips
of drawn open work, just like art,
drawn work done by hand, while the
wonders that can be accomplished by
the loom are further illustrated by the
blocks and stripes thus separated, being
of two or more different weaves, say,
for instance, checks in one block, and
diagonals or stripes in the next, boucle