Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-28
THE FASHIONS.
SOMETHING FOR THE LADIES,

aud Cnpiicts.
Horper's Bazqr in its current issue
says: Fancy straws of various kinds
are the earliest importations OF spring
millinery, but the most experienced
dealers believe the fine smooth Milan
straws or English Dunstables will
remain in favor, especially for
black and colored bonnets. Some
very fine Neapolitan braids are
shown, with the crown and brim
bordered with loops and scallops
Of straw that give pretty effect. For
v bite straws the cream-tinted Tuscan
braids are shown in great variety, some
CT them being as closely plated as
LeghOTn, but new feature is the in
PRODUCTION Of open lace-like effects in
rows about the crown and brim Of the
yellow Tuscsns. Fancy.lace straws
sometimes form the entire bonnet,
while others combine lace with
satin straw. Boucle straws show
ing rows Of loops are new, and
another novelty is the entire hat or
bonnet crocheted in the familiar shell
patterns Of straw cord like inc thread.
lieckel braid is stylish rough straw
that is made up in stripes around the
bonnet, alternating with smooth braid,
such as Milan, or else satin straw.
Cream, ecru, and tobacco-brown shades
are largely imported in smooth and in
rough straws, and there are also many
stal-brown, fawn. bright-red, bronze
and mignonette shades, with both light
ard dark green tints.
SHAPES OF BONNETs AND HATS.
Some bonnets, high hats, and turbans
are announced for the next season, ard
the shapes are very similar to those
now worn. The small capotes have
coronets falling back from closely-ftted
brims, or else the brim is slightly fla
ring, with scalloped edges, and is to be
filed in with puils of gauzy ribbons
and flowers. The crowns are narrow,
but both short and long crowns are
imported, showing that the hair may
still be worn either in high soft coil or
in medium low plated coil, or still
lower in dropping Catogan loop.
Round hats for the spring and for city
streets will have high sloping crowns,
with the brim wider on the left side
ard rolled closely against the crown.
For midsummer wear Leghorn flats,
with low crown and brim five inches
wide, will be revived. For general
wear there are turbanS of many
shapes, one importation showing
nine varieties. The soft. crown tur-
bans will probably be most used
carly in the spring, with the crown Of
The material Of the dress or its trim
ming. and the brim of straw. Both
hieh-slopipg crowns aud low, round
tui bans are seen, and there are oddly
,hsped melon crowns that will have to
be concealed by trimming in order to
make them attractive. Rustic straw
bats for the country are in plaids of two
contrasting colors braided in intricate
patterns.
BEADS.
The rumOr that beads of all kinds
we're to be abandoned is cOntradicted
by buyers for the large houses, and
their importations show jets, crystals,
and glass beads Of all cOlors, many of
the latter being in cubic shapes. Jet
beads come already strung on fine wires
in large mcshes that cover the crown
and half Of the front OF the bonnet, or
else they are arranged in cOronets or to
form brim, being of small crescents
or horseshOes Tapped into shape.
Another pretty fancy is that of
fine black straw bonnets entirely COW
cred with a net that has jet beads in
the corners Of the meshes. Dropping
Jets for the front edge, birds and
aigrettes of jet, with horseshoe crowns
Of Jet or iridescent beads are also
shown. In colored beads the new fancy
is for clear glass in squares or cubic
shapes, especially in dark brown and
amber shades. Groups of three or four
large beads are sewed at intervals all
ever bOnnets, high hats, and turbans.
GAUZE AND GRAPES.
These fabrics are to be used for
making entire bonnets. and for trim
ming those Of fine brands; for this
purpose silk gauzes. or silk muslins As
they are called, and colored English
grapes will be most used, also tulle,
both plain and beaded The gauzes or
| silk muSlinS come III a great variety OF
sty les, some perfectly smooth, others
in grenadiDe effects, woven IN square
meshes like canvas, or else corded or
striped, or in Scotch-plaid colors, but the
special novelties are the rough gauzes,
such as gauze boucle, or gauze AS
trakhan, with hoops thickly clustered
on their surface, or bourette gauze with
cords in bars or stripes holding loops
at intervals. The English grapes are
thin and crinkled, like the black grapes
used in mourning, but are shown in all
the new tints, and there is also a great
deal OF lisse or smooth Grape. Beside
these are the less perishable silk grapes,
deeply criDkled, as are the japanese and
Caution grapes, and many Of these are
suiped or woven in flowers, while
new feature in such stuffs is the intro
duction Of open-wOrk like hemstitching
OF lace patterns, forming stripes or bars.
SPRING CoLORs.
All these fabrics are imported in
lighter and more delicate tints than
have been used Of late, with fewer Of
the deep.dark colors worn last season;
for instance, there are four shades of
white alone, called by the Lyons manu-
facturerS blanc, which is the old-time
bluish-whte, MORE creme and beurre
next, there are the four yellow
tints that merchants say are to
be the fashionable colors next sea-
son-yiz., pail, (straw-cOlor,l Tuscan,
mas, or cony color. and JoutOn dor,
] like the bright yellow buttercups. A
new pale shade Of pink is called Ve-
nus, and parrot, or poppy, is the bright
est red shade seen in peoples. Darker
shades of red are called Sultan, Khe-
dive, and Egypt. The favorite half
tints that are always worn in the