The Springdale news., 1889-12-13
IN FASHIONS GLASS.
Bridal and Evening Gowns for Winter
 Weddings and Receptions.

Weddings and Receptions.
 Now that the autumn country sea. son is about over the feminine mind Is busy with preparations for the winters festivities, while with each succeeding day the chimes of sweet marriage creep into our ears. and d glimpse now and then of feminine loveliness in bridal array greets our vision.
 Not the least important is the brides maids gown, which is as often chosen with view to extreme simplicity as to the picturesque; as upon recent occasion when the maids were attired in white silk null, with white hats and ostrich tips and white ostrich feather fans, the only bit of color being con- tributed by the maid of honor, who was gowned in antique moire of white, with jardlniere stripes, very bouffant draperies, pompadour neck and elbow sleeves, suggesting a Dresden china shepherdess.
 The foundation of this graceful and simple gown is pale daffodiI satin, over which is full skirt of dalfodil crepe dc chine, festooned on the lower edge The bodice of the crepe is in soft folds with garnitures of pale but tercups, while wreath of these same flowers is placed on the hair. If hat Is preferred to the wreath, it may be of leghorn with yellow ostrich plumes
 For several seasons past bridal cos tunes have almost invariably been mixed as to materials, and costly bro- cade appears in the most elegant de- signs. Jupes or tabliers are often supplied by satin embroidered with pearl or lined crystal beads. or with tlower-patterns in silk, and Terry vel vet enters also into some of the new combinations.
 Recently imported evening gowns for young ladies are enveloped in bil- lows of tulle, plain tullc, neither em- broidered nor tinseled, but exeuisitely garnitured with the finest of artificial flowers. Satin, faille or moire form the foundations for these dainty gowns, the skirts being cut in length to lay few inches upon the floor, yet less than demi-train. One of deep rose satin, the deepest shade in our "Amer- ican Beauty y''-which. by the way, is not becoming to eyeey body, as one should be a smooth, olive-skinned brunette to wear it-has the skirt cov- cred with silk tulle which matches ex- actly, the front being completely studded with tiny sprays of pink heather with foliage, while the tulle at the back is tucked to the waist The bodice of satin is low-cut and draped with tulle and heather.
 Another gown is combination of pale wildrose pink brocade an d crepe de chtne. with garnitures of gold-cord passementerie, and white Persian lamb as a border for the front of the skirt. A Paris novelty is displayed on the bodice of this gown. in the way of a duil-gold buckle. shaped to the body and just the depth of the bodice at the center front, through which the crepe is drawn and then extended to the shoulders. When tulle is tucked. the tucks aro generally graduated in width, with the nafrowest at the top, and arc run in with floss of the same 5hade,
 Tho question is not "Must the bustle go2' but "Wlll it ever come back?" for gono 1t Is, and not even it's shadow is left. as far as imported gowns are except in rare cases when the material is weighty, when there will be a single reed at the back. A woman's good judgment. however, must direct her in the matter. for she must be Junoesque indeed to discard the small pad at the top of her skirt. Ella Starr, in Leslie's Illustrat- ed Newspaper.