St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-01

You see, then, that the dress parade
you miss to-day is only deferred and is
insured for the near future by the nee
essary material being Laid in. Miss
Price will come out in the glory OF a
spring suit to-day; so will Miss Bennett.
Miss Bennet's dress is old green cloth,
trimmed with Persian bands, and her
wrap a natty hussar jacket. The colo1s
that are new this season were certainly
intended for pretty girls only. There
are gobelin blue, silverugrays, mahog-
any, mignonette, old green, Old blue,
serpent-any of which is a safe venture
only where it is the girl who wears the
dress, and not the dress that wears
the girl. Take one of these neutral
tinted, all-Of-one-piece girls, and
put her III serpent green-a green that
looks as if it had been washed out In
bluing water-she would create bilious
ness wherever she was seen. But that
makes no difference to her; she will
wear it just the same as long as she be-
lieves it is fashionable, if everybody has
the cholera in consequence. Let Mary
Smith. who is bright-colOred blonde,
celebrated for her style, appear rayish-
ing in gobelin blue, and Jennie Jones.
who is brownery-y ellery, bony girl,
will come out in gObelin blue dress, as
sure aS-guns.
SUCH SHEEP ARE WOMEN.
The neutral girl who must be stylish
or die will or should be grateful to the
paSSementerieS and metallic braids that
enliven gowns this season. The paSSe-
menteries show all the new colors in
beads combined with gold and silver,
and vary in price from S1.25 per yard to
$35. | saw woman at the trimmings
10, OE &l,n -fn LOG Grlnc
day debating whether she would buy a
house and lot OF a few yards of passe-
menteric. Of course the paSSementerie
conquered.
Among silk fabrics intended for wear
as the season advances, there is nothing
prettier than the new lowered bange1-
ines, or pOplinetteS, and the sales would
indicate there will be nothing more pop
ular among st. Paul ladies. The flow
cred goods show very large figures, and
are to be used in combination with solid
colOrS or not, as one chooses. India
silks or French foulards are being Or
der ed with collars and cuffs of velvet.
There is always this objection to these
dresses. Madame goes forth to conquer,
arrayed at considerable expense in an
India silk or foulard, and behold! when
she arrives on the battle field madame's
maid servant is carrying the day, clad in
a sateen as like madame'S silk as one
pea is like another. Sateens and ging-
hams were never more taking than this
year. Sateens follow the large patterns
seen in India silks and bangelines, and
there is bigness about the plaids of
ginghams that is very striking. The
ginghams are in bright colors, the plaid
formed by thick cords of contrasting
colOrs. No plain material is used with
them, but the waist and perhaps
a side panel is made of the plaided
goods cut on the bias. Black dresses
are bound to be popular as long as
women with good sense, elegant taste
and slender purses grace the earth.
New in black goods is the regatta silk,
a fabric that is manufactured exclusively
for st. Paul ladies. 1t does not crock,
and above all, does not wear greasy as
so many silks do. Then there are black
hernanieS, that are trimmed with paSSe-
menterie, and black sewing silk grena-
dimes that combine beautifully with
BRAIDED grenadines and the novel Pekin-
stripe MORE grenadines. A handsome
black lace dress is being made for one of
the after-Easter brides, of the new mar
Quise lace, which is like hand run Span
ish, only that it is made finer and low
lier.
st. Paul ladies it seems are less given
to patr0nizing dreSSmakers of other
cities than ladies in most places are. Of
course those who go abroad, or who are
absent for any length of time in the East,
return with a new gown or two. But
the bulk of their work they have done at
home, and the majority Of brides who