Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-05
NEW COLORs AND FASHIONS.
The Lovely New Shades That IlIumi nate London Windows.
 From the London Telegraph

The Lovely New Shades That IlIuni- i nate London Windows.
 1 From the London Tslegraph.l
 1 Already, on bright days, have some of the shop windows begun to blossom like the
 rose. The new greens are in themselves a
 brightness, ranging as they do from deep
 rich emerald in the tint of the darkest leaves I of the lovely Killarney fern moss up to the
 freshest of the tones of young lilac leaves and | the golden green of the newly unfolded euonymus. Absinthe is to be largely seen, 1 and another name for shade of green is supplied by the liqueur Chartreuse. The
 latter is bright and pale, with tone of 1 yellow in the high lights. The crushed
 strawberry shades are coming in again, l but their name for this season is "dying rose.''
 One of the most successful of the new colors is likely to be one which is almost impossible to describe, so rare is it's union of brilliancy of tint with absolute softness of tone. It is called copper color, but has @ larger dash of pink than is often seen in
 copper, and is, in fact, more suggestive of the small pink clouds that float in the blue l directly above the setting sun on summer evening than of anything so hard and un- compromising as copper. There are nas turtium blooms of precisely the shade, which might almost be called Q blushing orange. In velvet, plush, and the soft silk known technically as "peau de suede' the color is at it's best. It is we'll suited to the wear of brunettes with clear coloring and touch of warm pink underlying the olive tones of cheek and ear. Fer blondes tke pale greens are admirable, except when sal 1owness invades the white and pink. Another
 pretty color with an ugly name is that called putty" It is really very sweet tone of gray, with touch of fawn in it, and agrees
 we'll with the new warm browns, several of
 which are old acquaintances under fresh
 nan.es.
 We are to see new and venturous combina- tions of color this year. Brown and green we became we'll accustomed to last year.
 Red and mauve we also saw with shrinking eyes, for the union is very terrible one, and aa inharmonious as we'll could be. Pale mauve and pink look lovely together if the correct tone of each color is chosen. This we shall see later on, to be followed probably by the maladroit limitations of those ungift- ed with true sense of color. Copper color and gray form another new combination
 which needs skill to make it pleasing. Gray is to be as much worn as ever, especially in
 the paler tones. Mauve and heliotrope will
 be largely worn: Yellow is still popular, but
 red is fast diminishing in favor.
 As to form, the skirts are all straight in outline in front and at the sides, and the
 hideous cushion at the back ia getting
 smaller and smaller. The introduction of
 modified empire styles is helping it to dis-
 appear completely. The drapery of the skirt is still punched immediately below the waist, but the folds fall straight from theoce
 to the ankles. Dresses are still quite short for street wear and clear the ground by a good inch all round. The waistcoat and
 plastron still prevail in every form of
 dress, from riding habit te dinner gown
 or court dress. Much braiding and embroi- dery are used and beadwork is still to ba greatly worn. Frenchwomen make great
 feature of the frills inserted under the hem
 of walking and visiting dresses, called bala-
 yeuses and sometimes frou- -frous from the
 rustling sound they make. Those made of
 checked black and white silk are most in fa-
 vor just now, except for black dresses, when
 frills of pinked-out black silk are chiefly
 used. This is not an extravaganza, for the
 balayeuse serves to protect the edge of the
 dress from the consequences of contact with
 occasionally muddy boot heels and the edges of damp steps which the wearer may be de-
 scending. It is easily renewed, but silk being much more durable than muslin, as well as more easily cleaned, the more costly material is eventually the best economy.
 Cloth is the favorite fabric for dresses at this transition period of spring weather. A fawn-colored cloth gown lately turned out by