Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-11

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A STYLISH SPRING COSTUME.
A pretty and stylish spring costume
shows an ecru wool skirt, checked with
green and red, under princesse polOn-
sise of dark green summer cloth. The
front of the poIo1aise laps to the left side
is turned back on the skirt as q reverse,
which is braided. This makes long,
deep side on the right, while the left 1s
short, showing the checked skirt, ard has
q large, square pocket there, masking that
side appear like iscket. The middle
forms are continuous, in princesse fash
ion, and the backs are long and but
slightly draped.
For travelling wear soft striped woolens
or homespuns in tints of gray.
The skir;s OF dresses for the spring sre
scarcely draped at all-only ripple here
and there.
Women OF fashion are wearing bslay-
euses made of black snd white checked
Iaffetss.
Plain silks and surahs are msde up
with pinked out edges, the contrasting
color put between.
| Metal fringes adorn the bottom of many
of the prettiest ball gowns worn al the
| DelmoDico balls.
| A shoulder cape with long scarf ends
that are knotted in the front and fall be-
low the knee, is new spring wrap both
graceful and stylish.
FIR low neck dresses the coifiure is
usually prolonged now by loose curl or
q hall braid falling just below on the
neck.
Bonnets become smaller. The ribbon,
aisrette ana bows on the top are now
held in place by flower sprays instead Of
plumes.
Black lace hats and bonnets are high in
favor for half season wear, and are bright
ened by cluster of velvet jonquils OF
pansies with golden hearts, or gold
colored bow.
The new figured China silk will be
made up with fouuced skirts and long
draperies, bordered with bias silk the
shade of theRdarkest figure, stitched on
with one or several rows of white silk.
Pinked founces begin to rage, and the
correct width is from five to eight inches
The lowest one should go all around, as
| finish to the skirt, whether or no the
drapery allows it to be seen.
The bodices of wedding dresses are
now made with the fronts quite covered
with rows of modest looking Grape pisse
and insertion laid crossWays over the
bosom.
1t is new fancy in tailor gowns tC
have the front breadth and waistcoat Of
some pale tint of cloth, while the bach
and side breadths, the bodice and sleeve;
are of dark cloth.
Broad sashes are coming more anc
more into fashion. They are either tiet
in . small bow with very long fringed-ou
ends or made into deep loops and shor
ends cut out in points below.
Lsce is now used as skirt trimming
in fat, lengthwise bands in double rows
with the points meeting under button o.
bow and the plain edge hidden by plea
of the gown stuff overlapping it.
A very chic street dress, Just from
Paris, is s long redingote OF long era,
wool, falling straight and plain over
pleated skirt of gray silk, and with Wild
, wooden revers, rolled back from pleate'
, chemisette of the same gray silk.
II A novelty is waist made without
sesm of course over well-fiittiDg lining
, But only the most skillful hands know
how to arrange soft, pliable material
that it clings gracefully ACROSS the fgur
J and makes the points into broad pleate'
, belt.
| The hair is either worn very high an
I pointed or else low and fat 70 the head
, with single long Way curl falling dew