Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-04-08
DaiIu 7kfnnebrr 3nurnal.
Fashion Notes.

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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 Russian blouse frock is worn by
little girls and small boys under FIVE.
Summer homespuns are shown in dag
onals, stripes and plain grounds.
Low shoes. worn with paste or Rhine
stone buckles, are choice for house wear.
The latest novelty in fancy slippers are
those embroidered with garnet beads.
Bonnets Of all shades of red. relieved
by Jet beads and ornaments, are much
worn.
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.
Tartan ribbons of velvet are used to
trim felt honnets tor wear with tailor made
costumes.
the preference being for ribbons and del
lcate feathers.
Very large and deep collars of em-
broiderv are feature in little girls and
small boys spring dress.
The embroidered harlequin shoe. with
harlequin stocking to match, is late hos
iery fancy.
Browns, tans, creams and nasturtium
reds preponderate over grays in new
woolens for spring wear.
Borders for entire skirts, for side and
back panels and tor parts of frocks are
the feature in spring styles.
The brims of new spring hats are Meth
er wide nor eccentric. They are narrow
er in the back than in front
Black. dark green and brown form the
largest proportion of dresses worn in the
streets by New York women.
Very wide and half-inch to quarter OF
an inch white Hercules braid is the popu-
lar trimming for little girls French
frocks.
The V-shaped plastrons of velvet are
embroidered with beads of corresponding
color, and are edged with double folds of
satin.
Fichus of surah and lace, crossed at the
bust. have sailor collars. Those of Grape
have broad bands of embro idery in rich
colors
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 fash
ionabe 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.
The use OF plush and velvet in stripes
and borders on etamine or canvas grounds
in two or more coIors and shades. is a
feature in spring wool and silk goods.
Only few brocades in set figures ap.
pear among spring silk or wooden stuffs,
and in these few the designs are small or
medium sized; not large or pronounced.
Crinkled zephyr cloth is shown in every
variety of dark and light colors. with
stripes for the skirts, while the bodice and
drapery are of plaid, corresponding with
the skirt in color.
Scotch ginghams have bourette stripes,
and are in variety of combinations, blue
and olive on a pink ground, and dark blue
and red on pale blue ground being the
most frequent.
Bretelles, cuffs and high dog collars OF
velvet, velvet straps across full guimpes
or blue waistcoats, and velvet belts will
be used on fine dresses of wash fabrics in
the spring.
Little girls frocks now have regular
waists, but no belts "A sash from under the
arms to tie in the back, and V bodice in
the laced-up Gretchen or peasant style
that was introduced last year.
Dark blue sateens have border imita
ting Torchon lace, a tiny figure of which
is strewn over the material. Others have
broad border of wheat ears. and nina
ture ears from the design upon the fabric
New hats with enormous crowns anC
medium brims, the crowns of one color
the brim of another. in straw ARE trimmed
| in the Little Duchess" own styles, tC
look larger in the crown and taller thar
ever.
Bonnets have Fanchon. Normandy anC
cap crowns. and brims of various kinds
| converting the bonnet into a capote. with
close, flaring. cleft, irregular. or regular
| brim at pleasure, while the trimmings are
so arranged as to give concal or pyr
amidal effect to the whole.
Cambrics and sateens are shown in ex
quisite designs. rivalng foulard silk it
sheen and coler. These will be made W
with kilt pleated skirts, and long draper
les, pleated full from the waist. Tn,
bodice will be in short Jacket fashion, full
and loose. The vest over which the JACKIE
opens, sash. rosettes. and high collar, will
butterfly bow, will be of plain sateen. tn,
shade of the darkest color in the figured
material The sleeves will reach littl,
below the elbow.
| Stripes and blocks of variously wovel
stutfs are surrounded and outlined in SOM
of the spring woolens with stripes an,
drawn open work, just like art, draw
work done by hand, while the wonder
that can be accomplished by the loom ART
further illustrated bv the blocks and stripe
thus separated, being of two or more diff
ferent weaves, say. for instance. checks il
one block and dagonals or stripes in til,
next. boucle in the third and bourette o
boutonneux effects in the fourth, and al