Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-02-13
THE NEW FASHIONS.
SPRING Goops-BLAcK GLOVES IN voGUE-THE
MANoS MANTLE-SoLID HosIERY-BRIDAL
GowNS-RIBBoy RAGE CANVAS STUFFs-
FRENCH COSTUMES ETC

MANoN MANTLE-SoLID HosIERY-BRIDAL
GcwNs-RIBBoS AGE-CANvAs sTUFFs-
FRENCH COSTUMES, ETC.
LARGE REAL LACE COLLARS are worn.
The LADY DoCroR" is the coming hat.
WORTH calls tailor made suits stable clothes.
BLACK HOSIERY is worn by men, women and
children.
FUssY, SUPERFLUoUs TRIMMINGS are going
out of favor
IMPORTED HOSIERY is cheaper than at this
time last year.
OPxN-woRKED SILK STOCKINGS come to
match ball toilets.
STRAW FELTs are the high novelty in bonnets
for the passing month.
THE WEATHER has bluffed the shopkeepers
little during the past week.
FLOWERS are again in favor on ball dresses
At least so SAYS the Season for March.
WHEN OvERsKIRTS ARE LooPED at all the
arapery is drawn very high around the hips
and made somewhat bouffant
THE NEWEST HAT IN PARIS is the LADY
Doctor" crush hat with a shaving brush POM
pom on one side or directly in front.
CLosE-FIrTING, INDEPENDENT WRAPS will
be fashionable in the spring, and many small
wraps will be made to match costumes.
The FINE and delicate Lorraine laces now
so popular are much used to trim under
clothing, tea aprons. doylies and fine bed linen.
STRIPES will be again worn, but more fire.
quently for crosswise trimmings of the bodice
and for horizontal lined front breadthS of plain
frocks than for entire suits.
The OPEN-WoRK EMBRoIDERIES on the in
step of siikstockings have birds, butterflies.
and flowers, bees and flies worked in silk and
Illuminated with gold and silver threads.
LONG KID GLOVES, which are de rigueur with
short-sleeved evening dresses, have tops of gui-
pare lace. OF netting, or silk jersey webbing,
and sometimes of rows of embroidery aIternat-
Ing with silk gauze puffs.
The TISsEL GAUzE FANS are extremely
pretty, and those in black gauze with silver tin
sci arc much affected by young ladies. Plain
crfmped gauze fans In all black are among the
coming novelties.
BLACK SILK AND SATIN APRONS, exactly
after the style of those worn in our grand
nothers' time, are again in high fashion. Black
Spanish lace, the real silky hand-run Sort is
lavished upon these dainty aprons with loops
and ends of bright poppy-red satin ribbon
peeping out from the pleatings of lace.
RED SWISS PEASANT BODIES are again quite
the thing for young girls. They are laced in
front over a stomacher, and trimmed with
bows at the shoulder. A sort of plated blouse
serves as completion TO these. Ii the collar
and wristbands are made of the same ribbon as
the shoulder bows, the blouse is especially be-
coming.
THE SPANISH FASHION of wearing black
gloves with full evening dress is returning to
favor, both here and abroad The great vogue
OF wearing rich black lace toilets over princesse
slips of Spanish yellow or coquelicot satin prin-
cesse SLIPS has no doubt brought about a return
To this sly lie OF hand dressing The most stylish
OF the black gloves now imported are deicateIy
embroidered IN black silk up the entire length
of the arm.
IN SILK AND Isle HOSIERY plain solid colors
are still considered best choice; these mostly in
dark shades, as stripes, checks and piaids, are
considered decidedly inelegant and passes The
most popular dyes are those in golden brown,
dark garnet Labrador blue, cafe n0tr a very dark
seal brown, Jdurette, a handsome thrush brown
dark ruby and olive. Black silk stockin gs i'm
proved upon by the addition of white Isle
thread feet. find a larger sale than any other
style OF stocking.
RIBBONS ARE TO be used without stint on thin
dresses, ON summer silks, and on matinees and
other neglig6 garments. Picot-edged or purled
ribbons will be preferred, and will be imported
principally in gros grain and in Eatered effects,
out gauZe ribbons aid those of satin and OF
velvet, with the loOped edges, will also be used.
The Juror ioT bows OF these ribbons is already
seen, and on the thin dresses they are used as
oog-coilars, with three loops and a fOrked end, 4
ali OF equal length, fastening the left side
THE SLEEVELESS MANTLE a la Manon, edged
with fur, Is charming novelty among Partisan
promenade toilets 1t is completed by the
original giraffe capOt, high bonnet with two
ionS velvet ears OF unequal size forming da-
dem in front There are some superb little
capOtes. intended for morning concerts lecture
rooms, &c, of velOurs epiEgle, with bead brirls
put on transparent stuff, and trimmed before
with Maintenon bow OF plated watered rib
BON, fastened with a bouquet of flowers ofspark-
ling cut beads.
AMONG A NUMBER of very elegant dresses
from Paris, designed for a prospective bride in
New York, Is a dinner gown of very dark blue
corded silk, cut with pointed Josephine bodice
pro broad vest, ana draPery Whieh partly, covers
the front portion OF the sixth ard ends in a
wide Louis Quinze sash dT1ipeTX in the back
This is made over striped s4lirtsof amber satin
and dark blue velvet alternately. The bodice
has "A high, fiaring collar of blue velvet lined
with satin and edged with am Der beads inside
Is a iraise OF real point ace The corsage Iaces
over vest OF amber satin worked with amber
beads.
SOME OF THE NEW SAMPLES of spring silks
come in beautiful shades of bronze and golden
brown and these colors also promise to be quite
prominent in millinery fabrics Bronze and
garnet powdered aigrettes, leaves and flowers
Will like wise be popular. Gray and deep blue
shades will also be in demand. \ specially new
shade OF the aforementioned color is known as
namme de punch, and is precisely like the rosy
gray color shown in the burning spirit of a
bunch-bowl. The new color cards also display
the popular shades OF red, coquelicot or poppy
still taking the lead Many OF the new reds are
not pretty tor use IN large quantities, but are
very desirable for combinations.
n LADY writing from England who recently
attended the wedding at kensngton of Miss
Alice Millais, daughter OF the famous English
painter, says: Tine beauty OF the bride and her
bridesmaids was theme of universal COM
mtnL The pageS-nephews OF the bride-wore
picturesque little costumes of moss green vel
Vet. the coats turned back with embroidered
reysrs OF white silk, and adorned with wide
rufnes OF old Venetian lace with falling frills OF
the same al the wrists. The bride was attired
Ia "A cTeain-white court trained dress of heavy
Lyons satin she e>chewed the orthodox
wreath and garnitures of orange blossoms and
wore a tiara Oi diamond with her tuile veil. /
The lace upon her ae0ing gown was a mag
innocent design in old Venetian point"
NEW DESIGNS IN ETANINE Or CANVAS
SrUFFs for early spring and summer dresses
are shown in every fresh importation. For
gay and simple tOilettes there j. Illuminated
eldI0lne or canvas with mcSheS OF Irvine or ecru
shades nearly covered with rough threads OF
~OoIs Oh every color. making rich melange,
glowing Ike stained glass. or else very deli
cateiy United The lace canvas stuffs are also
new. showing al open lace-like flower pattern
Win plain square meShes between. Still
others nave bright Roman stripes on canvas
grounds 10 combine with plain goods, and there
arr bayadere stripes tor the skirt in graduated
WIDTHS. Cein2 three or tour inches broad at the
loot, and tapering to halt an inch across the
top
AN IMPORTATION of French dresses contains
some short costumes for summer that are also
~ DC worn indoors at present. Among these is
one OF white canvas, with woven lace-like
border near the sewage, which forms ali the
hign officers collar, and small cuffs together
two ends attached To the left side of the skirt
vas tetamine) made with pieats or tucks from
the neck to the waist in 'front.' and back alike
The skirt Is in pleats that are WIDE all turned
one way, and scantiiy folded; the lace-like bor-
der woven near one sewage il at the foot of the
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