Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-11
A REVOLUTION IN FASHIONS.

The Paris Ed1et is to Return to the
 EmUire Dress and the Garments Of
 Our GrandmoShers-NewB Bau Dresses
 New Hats.
 From Le Moniteur de la Model
 The empire style of dress is gaining ground; there is 10 doubt of it, and we shall probably wind up the century dressed In our great grandmothers' costumes. Little by little we are accepting the dresses of the premier em- pire, resurrected for us by the elegant toilets of Nine. Sarah Bernhardt in ':La Tosca." The style is not yet general, buti promises to become so, and if many ladies shrink at present from adopting the entire dress thsy nevertheless wear with pleasure the round- wsisted empire oersage, with it's pretty pleat- ed fronts draped en fchu across each other, models which are so becoming to tho slender ness of youth.
 There is that about empire dresses and bod ices which makes them unfit for maturity. The empire dresses have revived old world brocades (silk or woellen) and those ladies who possess rich stuffs, bought by their great -grandmothers, may wear them now suitably made up. GauZy fabrics and bro cades of large, rich pattern divide the palm for empire dresses and mantles. Young girls and young unmarried ladies are going over to the empire style en masse, and there fore we may expect the sale of the lovely new gauges and muslins to go up considerably. Plain, embroidered, striped with straight or waving lines of ribbons, metal threads ilken threads gauges and silk muslins, vie with each other in beauty and lend themselves equally to the full, slightly draped empire skirts; and those pleated up and draped with long bows and festoons of ribbon.
 Ribbons of all materials, patterns and sizes are very much used for ball dresses: they are frequently of totally different color from the rest of the dress. For instance, red and pink toilets are trimmed with light moss green ribbons, blue with straw, msuye with narrow ribbons of many colers-blue, pink, straw, moss, almond, apricot, etc. White materials embroidered with gold are in high favor fer evening wear. whether wool or silk. Artistically draped tabliers of white crepe de Chine are edged with deep band of gold embroidery, the belt to the draped empire corsage being covered with embroidery. The daisy has quite gone out of fashion; but leaves, mosses, hyacinths, roses and camellias are worn in great numbers. The empire skirts are fre- quently edged with a garland of flowers and sprays or bouquets of large size are employed in draping and garnishing evening skirts and oorsages of more elaborate make. If there is an error at all, 1t inclines to an over-abund- anee of flowers and 8 tendency to wear flow CTS of very large size.
 Tulls seems to be the favorite hat mater ial, trimmed with ribbon, flowers, feathers, etc. Hats of small size are covered with pleated or bouillonne tulls, trimmed in front with bow of meire ribbon. The Tosca hat has been adopted by young elegantes, only the form is slightly modified and they do not wear it tilted back, like Mime. Bernhard, but well on the head. Short ribbons are the rage for hats in every combination of color. Straw hats are being made in two colors to go with them, the brim being one color, the crown another. A new style hat for young ladies is made of straw and is not unlike the chimney-pot hat, which, in silk, they wear for riding.