The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-03-10
FRESH FASHION NOTES.
No Important Changes Noticeable in th'
Styles for Spring suits.


styles for Spring suits.
The new bengalines for spring are
very soft and light in texture.
Marbled and watered plush is much
in demand for fancy work.
New braid patterns on spring tailor
gowns are marvels of artistic design.
Plaids and stripes will again be worn,
but more by children than grown peo-
pie.
The most fashionable coiffures still
demand that the hair falls rather low
| on the forehead.
Decorated celluloid letter cases and
portfolios are lovely pieces OF now
fancy work.
Dotted stripes are seen among new
designs in cotton, silk and woolen
fabrics for spring wear.
Large screen-like shades for piano
lamps are made of rose petals of silk,
sewn on pink foundation frame.
The finest artistic judgment and
taste is demanded and displayed in the
color combinations of indoor toilets.
Surplicc waists tapping over on one
side and forming V opening ut the
neck are in favor for house dresses of
all kinds.
Round waists and shirred basques
are the features on the new suits made
of embroidered muslins for the incom-
ing season.
Some fine specimens of hair dressing
are seen in the new coifl'ures which the
effort to introduce the Psyche has
brought out.
Embroidered muslin gowns are now
in the hands Of the dressmakers, who
are making them up for the spring and
summer trade.
Canary yellow point d'esprit and ac-
cessories of black velvet and jet make
q very effective and becoming ball
gown for dark brunette.
This may be called ribbon season,
SO profuse is the use of ribbons for the
decoration of dinner, ball and opera
and house and five o'clock tea gowns.
The latest fad in ball tissues is the
dauphine tulle in all delicate shades,
with designs of flowers and birds
wrought in colored silks and Japanese
tinsel threads.
A piano lamp on black antique
wrought-iron stand, in pink glass, with
large shade of silk or satin rose
petals makes lovely point of light in
gold and white furnished room.
Novelties in lamp shades are huge
tulips. lilies and callas of satin. stiifened
and nodded into the petal and flower
forms, and exquisitely colored, in ma
ture's own tints by first-class artists.
The new silk cord embroidery out
lined with Japanese gold thread is used
on slumber cushions, head rests, wall
banners, and variety of objects in
, plush, silk, velvet, silk satin, and silk
boiling cloth.
Braided wire hair rolls are now used
to extend the putls and fullness de-
manded by the latest fancies in the
Pompadour and Louis XVI. styles o
hair-dressing which the hair dealers are
9 trying to establish and retain as the
. leading arrangement of the hair.
l The latest importations of bengaline'
, for spring wear are figured in "set'
, designs, printed on grounds of the var
.ous new colors, and the selvages or
one side are in block patterns of color'
y that repeat those of the fabric. Thes'
+ selvages are made to form the border
f of skirts and draperies.
q New gingham, sateen, percales and
y printed cotton goods are being mad
y up for the next season in very pretty
: simple Estyles, with full plated over
+ skirts over under jupes, the draping be
= ing effected from the waist line ant
e given easy sweep by Il slash in the over
!. skirt on each side, showing a panel O
e the underskirt.
Charming novelties in fancy worl
/. are white celluloid whisk-brush holders
l tablets, shaving paper cases, card cases
toilet cushion cases, court plaster cases
, porte mouchoirs porte monnaies, ciga
cases, sachet cases and catchalls, was
bits and diaries, decorated with hand
= painted designs and made up with nal
row ribbon and ribbosene. plush, satil
and velvet tmountinws-N Y. Sun.