The Indianapolis journal., 1886-02-07
FREAKS OF FASHION.

FREAkS OF FASHION.
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Embroidered and plaid velveteen are used in
combination
Full skirts and round waists are the features
OF little girls frocks.
Coqreicot red and mandarin yellow are still
the leading colors in French millinery.
The new sheer cotton dress fabrics look like
old bersges, not like lawns or cambrics
Plated skirts retain their hold upon public
favor IN most remarkable way, with box plats
taking the lead
Hoop earrings set with pearls, diamonds, gar
nets, or rubies are very fashionably worn with
full evening toilets.
Among the new colors for spring are eucalyp-
tus and celery green. Straw color and maize
are the new shades ofyellow.
Beauty spots" are now painted with India ink
on the girl of the periods face, and she thinks it
great deal better than court-plaster.
Deep aprons and short wrinkled aprons
caught up alike on each side will be worn again.
as they are always becoming in thin fabrics.
Full and wholly undraped skirts are suitable
only for very young ladies, and. even among
these, the figures that can wear them are the ex-
ceptional ones
Gulmpes of white muslin gathered high about
the throat, and worn with dog-colar of velvet
or OF embroidery, win be feature of cotton
dresses next season.
Sleeves that have been severely plain for 80
long a time are expanding again, and are hence
forth to have, so 1t is stated, all sorts OF furbe
lows. frills and chicken ixings."
Cashmere is never out of fashion. The beauty
OF its folds and the co1ors make it very useful
for many occasions. It may be made plain for
the street or elaborate for the house.
Flounces. when of something thin and trans.
parent, are permissible in evening gowns They
do not reach quite as high as the belt. and are
completed by a twisted scarf or draperies.
Bretelles, cuffs and high dog collars of velvet
velvet straps. across full guimpes, or blouse
waist-coats. and velvet belts are to be used on
the frocks of fine wash fabrics in the spring
Scarts, panels. sashes, waist coats, and fac
ings to the iaunty Laveuse tunics made of
boucle cloth, cashmere, vigogne. or tweed, are
again formed of Roman-plaided or striped plush
Velvet bretelles, high velvet dog-colar and
cuffs, velvet straps across full guimpes or blouse
vests, and velvet belts and sashes will enrich
wash dresses that are otherwise Of very simple
fabrics.
Blue promises to be restored to favor for spring
and summer dresses, and is seen in pale and dark
shades, not omitting the Japanese and China
blues that have been so popular in foulards and
sateens
While the American women are rushing into
low-necked gowns with an enthusiasm that
amounts to recklessness. word comes from Paris
that, out OF ten women attired for dinner or an
evening party, you will not find more than three
il absolutely low dresses; for hops not more than
one.
New silks for spring wear consist of serge
woven surahs, India silk in seven-yard lengths,
plain and figured, to be combined in a costume,
and China and Japan silks, with the popular
Mikado figures and colors. mingled with palms..
arabesques and conventionalized flower and leaf
designs.
Diamond" trimming is much worn for half
mourning, and anything softer or daintier could
scarcely be found. It is made Of delicate French
batiste, with accurately-laid diamonds which
are stitched by machinery. 1t is to be had iE
''all overs flouncings edgings and insertions,
from one to seven diamonds Deep The seven
row costs 81 rs per yard. This novel trimming
is made in the United States.
OF the dress-skirt of the winter, it NAV be
said that Is literally endless in variety. It is
full and scant plain and trimmed, long and
short, with and without draperies, wired to stand
out and hanging in one long limp line from waist
to foot. 1t is all this and anything more that
dress-sKirt can possibly be. AS for being out OF
fashion, that Is quite impossible no matter what
one wears or how it is made.
The "Laveuse" tunic will again be popular
overdress with spring fabrics. It is caught up
at both Sides and fastened under the back pouf
exactly as peasant girls tuck up their skirts. The
front breadths are cut almost as long as the UNI
derskirt. The front and side breadths are
Joined, then pleated up and fastened at the back
by sash or wide loops of the dress goods The
deep upturned portion of the front of the tunic
is faced with contrasting fabric and color.
In no point whatever is fashion subjected to
any rigid rule in the shape of bodices OF peaked
waists, round waits pleated or gagged waists,
Jersey bodices, casaquins, or coats there is no
end; they may be either in vest habit, Gretchen,
cuirass zouave, Russian, jaunty French, or Sc
mo ho md
wooden" in their fashion as Joan of Are bod
ice or the natural waist-line may be relegated to
halfway up the length of the waist, la bebe,
and yet be in best form. The only question at
present to be weighed in regard to the corsage
is, which of all is most becomingl