St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-11
FASHIONABLE FRIVOLITIEs.

The pretty textiles called Neapolitan
silk crepalines are very popularity worn
for dancing toilets.
The new, elegant and expensive sash
ribbons are made in fichus that cover
the waist and shoulders almost entirely.
Cloth jackets imported for early spring
days are of plain, plaid or stripped
cloths i'll higher colOrS than are usually
Worn for wraps.
Jaunty costumes imported for the first
warm days are of Suede-cOl0red home
spun or of canvas, with full skirt and
an outside coat.
Stripped wool jerseys with sailor
blouse front, fitted back, and deep sailor
collar are pretty neglige corsages tor
wearing out partly worn skirts.
Some of the elaborate French gloves
are embroidered on the backs with gold
or silver thread in designs of fieur-de-
lis and sometimes with the monogram
Of the wearer.
Long raglans for travelling clOaks are
made of stripped and plain cheviots,
homespuns and surges of very rough
surface in gray, tobacco brown and cop
per cOlOfs.
Most of the spring jerseys have the
sleeves slightly full at the wristband,
and some are tucked at top and bottom,
while others are shirred around to match
the shirred yoke of the bodice.
On the new bonnets all the trimmings
are lowered, though they are by no
means fiat. But the towering pointed
bows of last year have given place to
soft, wide loops, put on to give broader
effect.
Cashmeres in the grayishgreen re-
soda shades, made up with darker green
oil H.
per red Bengaline, are prepared for
afternoon toilets for the early spring
months.
A new idea for bridesmaids is the use
of very fine, soft, cream yelveteen,
trimmed with otter. The skirt falls i'll
easy, graceful folds. and the material is
soft as dOeskin. The bodiceS are az
ranged so that the fur crosses in front.
Double-breasted corsages are becOm-
ing too long for slender figures, as they
have the effect of making them appear
shorter in the waist. Irregular arrange
ments are preferred for double-breasted
bodices.
A novelty is the Tosta mantle, made
very short in the back, but very long III
front, and almost covered with lace and
jet: this is worn with the Tosca hat,
with long, projecting front of brim,
short, close back and nOddlng ostrich
plumes.
Braiding has by no means had its day
of favor as trimming on jackets, and
is done with both metal and mOhair
braids, some of which are fiat and others
tubular, while the twisted cords of silk
or of metal are used in all the most
elaborate designs hitherto done only in
Soutache braid.
The stylish coats of smooth-faced
cloths for dressy occasions come i'll cop
per cOlOrS, in the new green shades, in
tobacco browns, Suede color, the odd
blues with green tintS, and in bright
red shades, while the r0ugher home
spun jackets are in stripes or bars or
melanges of two or three OF these cOlors
together.
A pretty demi-saison gown has white
and brown checked skirts, the second
Topped up, made of brown silk, the
brown silk bodice with loose fronts
opened over a white waistcoat with
chased gold buttons, large, round, brown
felt hat, turned up on one side, lined
with velvet and trimmed with tufts OF
brown and white feathers.