Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-04-10
THE SPRING FASHIONS.

THE SPRING FASHIONS.
CANVAS GoODs-THE NEW sEERsUCKERs-
BEADS FOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SUITS
HATS IN VARIETY OF sHAPEs-ETC.
CANVAS CLOTH has fronts of wooden lace to
correspond
WHITE WOODEN MATERIAL has stripes o
colored plush.
CAMBRIC "ALI~OvERS," in all colors, have
narrow embroidery TO correspond.
FINE SEERsUCKER, in pale blue, pink or ecru
is embroidered with cdelweiss in white.
WHITE ETAN1NE has broad and narrow
stripes of heraldic design for trimming.
EVENING DRESSES of cream Thibet canvas
have founces embroidered In delicate colors
LoUIsINES, with tiny black and white
checks, silver gray in effect, will be much
worn.
MIKADo PARAsoLs have the points turned
upward, and are made Of striped or embroidered
COACHING PARAsoLs are in Louis XIV STYLE
having walking stick handles of heavy natur al
wood.
The MOST POPULAR GOODS for spring dresses
canvas.
YUM-YUM PARAsoIs have a silk foundation
and are covered with colored silk, creped and
loosely put on.
SILKS, Win tnree-tOneQ
effects, made up alone, requiring from
twenty TO twenty-five yards.
SOFT BEIGEs have figured borders of contrast
ing or harmonizing tints. They are also plain
and with bourette stripes.
kHYBER CLOTH ROBES are shown in mode
colors with frise and coupe velvet figures ap-
piled with cord of lighter shade.
ALBATRoSs CLOTH has the border OF mediae-
val design soft colors. 1t has also frise stripes
with embroidery OF heavy silk.
Northumberland daisies in blue, white or red.
Handkerchiefs for mourning have the daisies
in black
PERSIAN SILK with overshot threads that
give crinkied effect are shown in all dark and
evening colors. Some have stripes of different
colors.
TUCKED CANVAS is shown in a variety of
colors: Three breadths of the tucked material,
fOrty-1ve inches wide, and four yards of the
plain, are required for a costume.
HoRrENsE FABRICS OF SATIN SERGE have
contrasting boucie stripes, with tiny loops of
the finest, softest silk. Some OF these costly ia
brlcS have plush instead OF satin stripes.
BLACK KID GLOVES are stitched and bordered
with tan, and tan-colored gloves have the stitch
ing and borders of black. Long silk gloves
reach over the shoulder.
LIGHT-wEIGHT SERGEs are braided with
Hercules braid; with each dress is scarf with
the ground corresponding, having Roman
stripes at the ends.
NUNS YELLING is in great variety; it has
face, the loops being exceedingly fine. The
plain sorts are finer than those OF last season.
TARrAN PLAID SURAH is used for skirts, the
bodice and draperies being plain surah CORE
spending to one of the colors in the plaid
Inc piastron, collar, revers and cuffs are of the
plaid.
DIAGONAL CAMEL.s' HAIR ROBES are EN-
broidered in Mauresque designs with fine
wiry worsted. Red has putty-colored EN- broid-
cry, ecru has blue, and white is embroidered
with white.
FANS OF WHITE QUILL FEATHERS are
mounted on amber handles. They have birds
heads eneireled with marabout feathers just
above the point where the feathers fastened
in the handle.
\ PRINTED COTTON GRAPE in japanese
figures and designs is a novelty. Fans, vines,
trellis-work summer-houses and other quaint
patterns are shown in blue, black and brown ON
ecru, white and channels grounds.
BEADS ARE AMONG THE FAyoRIrE 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 shown with the sur
lace thickly wrought with them.
A MANTLE OF FIGURED SILK GRENADINE,
beaded with gold and jet beads, has the long
pointed tabs of watered silk partly covered
with Spanish lace. 1t is bordered with moss
fringe oyeriaid with pendants of gold and
Indian beads. The high collar is covered with
Spanish lace and is fastened with clasp of
jet and gold.
MIKADo SILK is neutrality-suspicious. India
silk 1t is In rich coloring and strong contrasts
and is reported as finding favor with persons of
correct taste for skirts with over-dresses of plain
color. The design is Persian OF large size and
OF light color upon a dark ground, over which
crescents OF large size and dark color are thrown
I'm profusiOn-
a GREAT DEAL OF RED IS To BE WORN, not
only in dark cardinal and ruby, which are
especial favortes, but also in Turkey red and
medium shade of scarlet. Serge dresses of
these eoiors will be seen with black straw
lace hats trimmed with red and black ostrich
plumes- These are quite striking, but are de-
signed more especially for coaching and like
occasions.
For THE COMING SEASON many dresses will
be made with the entire waist of one sort of
goods and the entire skirt of another. CASH
mere skirts via be worn with velvet waists,
silk waists and those made of thin materials of
all sorts There are also rich Persian silks that
will be made into waists of various shapes and
worn with thin white or isht-colored skirts OF
any material
NOVELTY IN WAISTS is a jersey and silk
combination. The jersey cloth is used for yoke
and sleeves, while a tight fitting body of the
silk composes the remainder of the waist. 1t
may be made together or separately in guimpe
lashlon- There may be round waist or
pointed front and position back, according to
fancy Black silk dresses with cardinal silk
Jersey cloth yokes will be especially stylish for
young persons.
THERE Is A RUMoR IN PARIS that the fringe
on the forehead is TO be brushed back and that
the couture la chinoise is 20 be adopted
Whether the faces that have been softened by
the light locks touching the forehead will be
willing 10 abandon the old style is yet 10 be
seen In the present wide range allowed by
Dame Fashion ii is quite possible that her
Notaries VIII choose the manner of hair dress
Ing which best suits the particular style of
each.
a DRESS OF ECRU EIAMINE has the skirt
covered with brown wooden lace. The full
apron drapery in front is plated nigh on the
left side. The back drapery opens in the middle
over the brown lace skirt, and has revers of
brown velvet The bodice is made with an
Eton jacket, which opens over Breton vest of
brown lace, has a high collar of the lace and
a rcvers of The velvet, with three large buttons
either side.
HoSIToN EMBROIDERY is tine latest novelty
for making up with satin silk dresses 1t is
colored net of the finest quality, with applique
figures OF delicate batiste, filled in with lace
stitches and outlined with silk OF contrasting
e"or IL is wide enough to- cover the entire
for trimming Cream net has black batiste
figures fileG in aud outlined with red silk.
green net has ecTu figures with brown silk: blue
net has blue figures and blue outlining; ecru
net has figures of the same tint flied in with
gold in lace stitch, the outline being of dark
brown silk. The net must correspond with the
color OF the silk satin over which il is made
THE CONDENSATION OF lightweight WOODEN
fabrics with plush or velvet Is specially favored
In no