The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-07
SPRING FASHIONS.
All shades of cloth are reproduced in X
gloves for spring wear.

All shades of cloth are reproduced in k1c
gloves for spring wear.
White and black bonnets are much
trimmed with gold ribbon and gold en-
broidery.
Bonnet strings of ribbon or velvet viii
give place to wide thin ones of lace or net,
to be tied in a big bow under the chin. OIL
else to form a big loop and hanging end al
one side.
new and ugly fancy for full skirts is to
lay them in fine close pleats all around the
waist and stitch the pleats to the founda-
ton down one edge for eight or twelve
inches below the belt.
Fashionable women in Paris and London
are making great use of black lace and jet
pelerines, that have empire scarf ends that
are long enough to fasten at the belt and
fall to the hem of the skirt.
Empire and Directoire styles have the
merit of economy. Sixteen yards of twenty
four-inch goods OF twelve of thirty is ample
for even the tallest woman, when last year
it took twenty-five or sixteen for even the
plaineSt costume.
Wide soft lace cravats are again high
style. They either go close about the throat
and are tied in a big soft bow in front or
are gathered down each side and through
like foamy pillows as possible.
In dressy evening toilets young ladies
are wearing ribbon bandeaux in their hair,
with q number of high loops of the same at
the top of the couture, upheld by invisible
wires to keep them in position. Silver ill.
let's are also worn when the Grecian style OF
dress is chosen. These bands. however, are
becoming only to women with abundant
t~resses, and features that are decidedly
classic.
Women who give nice attention to all the
details of the toilet find a traveling-cloak
Indispensable. as even on short journeys
dust and cinders D'' The long-enveIoping Di.
%rectOire wraps are first choice, but on &C
count of their being SO easily put on and OH,
the Connemara cloaks are elected by. even
those to whom they are not specially be-
coming.
Gowns for yachting. beach wear and so
on now take the generic name OF water
dresses" and are made up of fine. light
cloth or flannel. with a round waist with
shlrred crossing fronts, full skirt, deeply
gagged on to the waist and bordered at foot
with a deep bias band piped with q con-
~trasting color. The same color appears In
the habit shirt that fills in the little V at
the neck.
All things that hint of individuality or
savor. of the picturesque now find
with'fashiOn. Within the lines of symme-
try no cut is forbidden, no drapery tabooed.
Woman in buckram for the last ten years
will rejoice to learn that stays and steels
uous desuetude. and the natural woman
as the Lord ought to have made her coming
to the front.
Very many of the newly imported black
lace dresses are made up over foundations
of black faille or merveilleux satin, with
no touch of color visible save the wide En-
Other elegant black toilets are made of
large-meshed net over black silk. the long
Greek Over-drapery bordered with rows or
narrow black MORE ribbon. Many strands
of these ribbons lap each other dlagonally
OIL the corSage.
Empire styles now extend to underwear
n all the ct ceteras of the toilet. Paris
shOrt-waisted as possible, sets nv lady's
hand-glass in a backing of brocade with a
pink and green bow on the handle, lays her
gloves and kercbiefs in pink and green
sachets, and ordains that, she shall wear
hanging to her belt the qualntest of
pockets of gathered silk, pointed at bottom
and opening under a pointed flap at top.
Round and belted waists remain in
fashionable favor. Notwithstanding the
great vogue for polOnaises and redingotes.
Many dresses in this style are made of the
beautiful fine woods, either bordered or
deliberately braided in graduated ara
besques on the front and sides of the dress
skirt. They are also made of camePs hair
in the lovely old-rose shades, in pale En-
pire green of soft grayish tints, in the faint
violet and golden-brOwn %colors,, and in
silver and dove shades. The collars, re-
vers. cuffs and sashes are made of ribbon.
with ribbon borders on the plain skirt.
The velvet ribbons that are now so mex
p~ensive are very becoming for such trim
mingS, and many dress-makers use the
POmpadOur ribbons also, while crepaline,
convent cloth, and other fine white woods
are made up with round waists and Grecian
draperies. and trimmed with Persian bro
caded ribbonsthat have golden grounds and
richly cOlOred fipures-