The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-03-31
FRESH FASHION NOTES.
Hints and Suggestions on Themes Pieasii
to the Fair Sex.

White wool waistcoats appear on
many dark wool costumes.
High standing collars to gowns
divide favor with low and rolling col
lars.
Old rose plush is favorite trim
ming material for white China silk
dresses.
Tea green in great many shades Is
exceedingly popular in spring dress
goods.
Moire, China silk and plush are
beautifully combined in many spring
costumes.
A pretty fashion in spring dresses Is
to combine checked and plain, or
striped and plain silks in them.
Selvages woven to form borders OF
skirts and draperies are feature in
many kinds of new spring goods
The large quantity of yellow shades
used in spring millinery makes it very
becoming to brunettes and French
blondes.
There is no hint from abroad that the
Psyche couture is adopted. If it be-
comes a success it will prove that
| America can set fashion in hair
dressing.
Small buttons of gilt and of silver.
cloth covered and silk crochet, are used
for fastening waistcoats and decorating
the cuffs and collars of dresses that are
trimmed with gold, silver, silk or mo-
hair braid.
Quantities of silver and gold braid,
put on in rows that form VS. and other
decorative figures. and run in straight
lines across the cuffs, collars and rcvers,
and in fine vertical lines on the waist
coats are used on both outdoor and in
door gowns.
The big bows of wide glace ribbons
that adorn the huge Directory bonnets
that there is an effort to popularize this
spring are the most aggressive decora-
tions that we have seen in years. They
look as if they were swearing at the
beholder, the wearer and the bonnet all
at the same time.
There is great deal of talk about
long classic draperies and Directoire
styles. but for all that the larger num-
Der of gowns made up in the leading
houses this spring have well-looped
bouffant draperies, peaked bodices, and
have steels in the back breadths to give
greater apparent aptitude to the full
underskirts.
A lovely tea gown is composed of old
rose bengaline for the back breadths
and sleeves. pale straw-colored BEN
galine for the front. the Henri ii. puffs
in the armhole and the filing of the
slash at the waist. while the bands that
decorate the whole are of tea green
plush, embroidered with gold thread
and spangled with gold.
The favorite dresses for elderly
women are made of moirG for the skirt
| and of Henrietta cloth, cashmere, China
silk, bengaline or surah for the polo
naise. and the polonaisc is the favorite
form of upper garment and draperies
for old ladies. The colors preferred
are seal and Havan browns, dark and
olive greens, Gobelin blues and black.
The new ginghams for the incoming
season are finer in finish, coloring and
combinations of plaided and barred
effects that have been seen for years.
Indeed, they closely resemble the new
plaided silks that are brought out fol
parts of costumes and the bands, cuffs.
collars, and decorative effects of tea
gowns that are made of two pale neu.
trail tints.
| America does give some fashions to
Europe. Children here are dressed tt
great extent in the Kate Greenaway
styles. and latterly Parisians are be.
ginning to put those long-skirted, short
wasted, quaint gowns and cloaks and
big hoods on their little ones. and, with
the generosity of that polite and genial
people they order them of their dress.
makers as american gowns, coats
and bonnets' for children.
1t is new fancy in tailor gowns t.
have the front breadth and waistcoa
of some pale tint of cloth, while the
back and side breadths. the bodice ant
sleeves are of dark cloth. For instance
chamois and Gobelin blue. chamois an,
tapestry green, coachman's drab ant
red. gray and seal brown are combined
in such gowns, the decorative effects
being supplied by pinked out Vandyke
and revers. metal braids and buttons
The figuring on the India and Chin'
silks grow larger and more eccentri
} as the season advances. Some ar
lowered in large, loose, all-over iardin
iere patterns. others have palm leaf ant
fan designs. sleigh bells, groups o
dots. clusters, stripes and bars of dots
chain links, overlapping rings, forket
lightning streaks, loose-lying grasse
in vanishing effects, circles, moons. ant
Greek and Oriental designs. and almos
! every figure and flower pattern that Cal
be conceived.
The medium shades that prevail i
the new bengalines. China silks, MORE
and other spring dress fabrics are al
shades of green. from ivy and myrtle t.
moss. reseda. tea, Nile, water. sage
, pistache and absinthe. all shades O
blue. baby, Gobelin, water and opaline
, pearl grays to smoke grays, coachman'
3 drab. ecru. beige. old ro Sc, rose ceud'
or ashes of roses, pale terra Gotta @
! persimmon, and pinkish opaline tint
introduced in shot effects in all th
l neutral colOrs. Y. Sun.
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