Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-10
FASHIONABLE OR OTHERWISE


CHEEsECLoTH curtains, ETC., If of suf-
fcient ".body" to permit washing, can
be retained in their soft creamy tints
by rinsing in weak, strained coffee or
water tinted with g. yellow dye.
A VERY soft and pretty fringe for
homemade rugs is to be obtained by
travelling out the good parts of old
stockings and mittens. The crinkled
appearance is it's pretty feature, and
it lasts for years under ordinary wear.
Excellent effects are obtained by mix
ing the colors.
A SHORT square Figaro jacket ls
made of black velvet, to wear with silk
or wool skirts for a home toilet. 1t Is
open in front and has q full vest OF
yellow surah silk underneath. The
corners are embroidered with yellow
silk, and the wrists of the slashed
sleeves are trimmed to match.
RED is shown in clear dark ruby
and some medium shades of cardinal.
A good deal of scarlet is used in mil
linery, and full dresses OF bright red
are seen, many red Jackets, and a few
short wraps. A new caprice is a short
wrap of red broadcloth, with trim
ming of red and black or red and OIL
i've chenille and braid fringe.
JET and colored iridescent beads,
also brown wood beads for brown
dresses, are again imported in galloons
that have straight edges or else with
one edge only scalloped and the upper
edge straight, to. form dog collars and
cuffs, and also in very large ornaments
that will cover the entire back of man
ties, or else their fronts in vest shape.
NEW lace founcings, forty inches
deep, come in perpendicular stripes
running from the edge of the founce
upward and two-thirds of the way
across the width. They are in some
cases very heavy, and others are very
light and delicate. Many of the deep
embroideries have merely etchings
above the rather pronounced and
heavy Egyptian edgings.
A DEVICE of the modistes to prevent
the skirt being thrust forward at every
step of the wearer is that of making
three Sits upward in the foot of the
front breadth of the foundation skirt.
Each of these Sits is two or three
inches long, and the braid which binds
the skirt extends up the Sits also. Oh
course these open spaces are hidden
entirely by the outside skirt.
A NOVELTY in scrap baskets is made
of wooden buckets. Well cleaned
paint buckets would do as well as any.
A wide space around the top and bot
tom is nicely gilded, and the middle
part covered with a broad band Of
plush or velvet, either ornamented or
plain. The inside has bag lining of
satin. The cover, if one is wanted,
can be treated to correspond.
THE plain round skirt without puff
or drapery, known as the peasant or
housemaid skirt, will be worn to some
extent during the spring and summer.
1t is very suitable and becoming to
youthful wearers, and is fashionable
at present for young ladies ball
dresses. The newest skirts of this kind
are made trife longer behind than
in front to accommodate a small
hustle.
VELVET and also plush will remain
IN favor as the accessories OF summer
toilettes, to 'give character" as the
modistes say, to many fabrics that are
almost colorless. For instance, a
spring visiting costume of moss green
cashmere will have g. long redingote-
polonaise of the cashmere, which meets
in front only at single point in the
corsage, and on this will be wide Direc-
toire revers of darker green velvet, a
dog collar of velvet, narrow cuffs of
the same, belt with buckle, and large
square-cornered pockets of velvet on
each side, held by buckles or buttons.
To combine green and beige is one Of
the fancies for spring dresses that have
already declared themselves in certain
fabrics; for instance, the basque and
drapery of bronze green cashmere, with
q vest and panels or skirt front of ecru
canvas, with lengthwise stripes OF
bronze plush in graduated widths, quite
broad across thefoot and becoming the
merest line near the belt. Beige cash
mere, when used for the basque and
draperies, is associated with similar
sheer fabric of ecru ground, on which
are brown plush stripes, or else group
of stripes of different colors forming
one wide stripe, such as porcelain blue,
chaudron, bronze green, brown and
myrtle green.