The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-25
SPRING FASHIONS.
Novelties In Gowns and Wraps-Decollete
Dresses Going TO me Extreme.


Dresses Going the Extreme.
New York Evening Post
Immense sashes worn more and more.
Bretelles noted again upon some of the
dressy spring costumes. and another pretty
fancy for young ladies is the wearing of vel
vet dog collar, around which are set tiny point
ed loops OF picot ribbon. Down both sides of
the front and back of the bodice arranged
velvet ribbon bretelles, 'ssuspenders, as they
are called, also edged with the pointed loops.
These bands reach the waist at the back, and In
front run TO decided point. A belt OF the same
ribbon is carried firmly around the waist and
arranged in loops and ends at the left side. each
streamer terminating in an ornament of jet or
silver similar ornament fastens the
velvet collar at the throat Very many
OF the handsome black lace dresses are
being made up for the coming season
without Innings, the corsage and drapings
80 arranged that princesse slips of primrose, sill
YER. Roman red, Persian mauve, orange, or
golden green. may be varlousy worn with the
dress. When made up regularly and sewed to
foundation, the slip is more usually of black
silk or satin than of any gay color. The tour
nure is gradually disappearing, and the secret
of SO skllfully draping dress that it shall stand
out gracefully, without the aid of wires or buck
ram. is simply to make it suficiently wide. The
inter ests of trade are really at the root of
the rise and fall of the bonnet or the tourn ure.
or the width or narrowness of the skirt Fash
ion has much method in her madness. A very
wide hem turned mp on the outside of the foot
of the dress skirt and piped with q line of gold
or other colored braid used in decorating the
gown. is a fashionable finish for skirt, tunic, and
e0geS or CuC-AwAy coat. White pOngee and
white Grape vests piped with color, with
buttons TO match, also seen upon Lon
don-made yachting dresses of dark red. green.
or blue cameFs-hair serge. Many of the stately
evening dresses are decorated with embroidery
or heavy silk passementeries around the hem
in the fashion SO popular in visiting and walking
costumes. Princesse dresses for matrons are
finished in this manner around the foot, and
there angel sleeves with close ones beneath,
made Of silk, and half covered with embroidery
or passementerie. This style is far better adapt
ed to tall, slender women than to short stout
ones, who, adopting angel sleeves and Grecian
draperies would render them a satirical COM
mentary upon themselves. The pretty addition
is made TO q fancy waistcoat. under the guise of
high ruff1e of lace carried the chest
where it gradually w1dens and is finished of by
corselet drapings of crepe lisse surah. When
worn by young ladies, these folds are met by
deep Swiss girdle, or Turkish sash, passing
loosely around the waist and completed at the
back by wide sash. Roman red Bengal
inc will be much used for this purpose
for natty beach and mountain
costumes. The popularity Of yoke waists 10
still manifest, and one of the new very popular
styles shows a closely fitted lining with pointed
yoke. It is called the French blouse" and
will be used next season for tennis yachting
and for comfortable yet trim bodice for
ing wear, generally at summer resorts. One
pretty blouse is made OF white SERGE with yoke
girdle. collar. and cuffs braided with gold. An
other in terra Gotta cashmere. is embroidered in
black. blouse of scarlet wool crepes has a
finely tucked yoke and cuffs, and another of Ro-
man red crepe, to wear with black silk skirts,
has a pointed girdle, yoke. cuffs. and collar of
black velvet, brier-stitched with red silk
Some of the new short wraps display many
attractive fances The French visite with
paneled fronts is still popular garment and
seems almost snovelty on account Of its fresh,
rich materials and garnituges One wrap is
made of golden-olive velvet shot with bronze,
and lined with pale-green surah. The visite
glisJens with magnificent garnture of bronze,
gold and olive beads The trimming is not put
in straight bands, but in special designs
adapted to various portions of the An
other visite is made of tan-eoored velvet bro
caded with dark tan leaves in plush, touched
with gold. The sling sleeves lined with
gold and tan shot surah. The sleeves not
trim med, but down the fronts and over the
shoulders are set very handsome pendants of
gold and terra Gotta beads.
Some of the very beautiful and expensive
evening toilets, designed Cor watering place
wear the coming season, are fashioned after
French models which show the bodices cut
ridiculously low both front and back. To such
excess has this style been carried in of
the imported dresses that. reaching their des-
tination here, many of the corsages have been
provided wi tn pretty little fchus of real lace
beaded tulie with which TO supplement their in
completeness. 1t is not all uncommon to see
the opening of bodice reach almost to the
waist in front, and quite to the waist at the
back. This is the ''Vandyke" bodice
AS to the old-fashioned rounded bodices,
showing the whole of the shoulders, now that
there is sleeve to support them the arm,
they recede more and more The introduction
of the epauiet to hold the two SIDES of
the dress together, but this hardly makes up for
the lack of sleeve Another variety of even
ing bodice-the cell du roi-w1ll be very popolar
This fastens together at the throat with a
diamond ornament, but spreads widely open be-
low it. There is also the Pompadour bodice,
which never loses its popularity; this may open
in front only or at the back well. But nearly
every style is cut excessively low that gen
erous spray of flowers and bodice garniture will
prove not only ornament but positive char
ity. If people could only be made to realize
what artistic error a low bodice is, to say
nothing else in it's condemnation, we should see
less of this fault in gowning but it is clear that
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should not many pretty faces sacrificed to
an absurd and undesirabl fashion. It has been
asserted very many times thai. ''for every inch
of throat that is revealed, the face suffers"