Wichita eagle., 1889-04-21

cessor1es OF gilt passemeuterle Is much used
for the semi penitential toilets that precede
Easter splendors.
The wreath prevails to an alarming extent
| in spring millinery. Sometimes it goes
around the hat or bonnet and sometimes it
rests next the face
| Printed India silks as well as checks and
stripes are made up into parasols to match
summer gowns. They have sticks fifty
inches long and no lining.
Dresses for misses of colored Bingham or
cambria will have simulated guinpes OF line
| tucked white muslin sewed In the neck to be
worn and washed with the gown.
| About the oldest of the empire revivals is
that of the grenadine with broad stripes of
| silken Grape in contrasting colors which our
| Observation-Disclosures knew and loved as Bal
Zerine.
Loudness is the characteristic Of new
French hosiery. Nearly all the stockings
| have black grounds barely visible through
blocks, squares and strips that quite discount
| the rainbow.
| Some of the fashionable colors of the sea-
son are empire green, printemps, sontelle,
lime, roseau, reseda, canard, beige, rose, sap
pho. burnt rose, azaiea, steam, granite, oxide,
columbe and heron
Light weight camel's hair cloth, nuns
cloth, nuns yelling, plain and figured, and
fine close twilled French serge are favorite
stuffs for the stylish wooden robe dress SO
largely worn this spring
Bugs, beetles. butterflies, even spiders, will
seem to crawl and creep over summer hats,
but so far the most ornamental of ali insects,
the velvet caterpillar, has not been counter
feited for feminine adjoining.
Wash dresses for girls Just In their teens
are very simply made with WIDE, full skirts,
hemrned and or1iamented at pleasure with
tucks and insertion, and full waists and
sleeves tucked to form yoke and cuffs.
a pretty fancy for trimming white muslin
dresses is to put ribbon in two shades Of a
color folded two inches wide along the bot
tom of the waist, making small endless bows
in front and full and flowing one at back.
Small girls wear turned down frills of mus
lin, plated and embroidered about the neck
and wrists They also wear neckties of white
null, with lace or drawn work ends tied be-
low the chin in bows almost as big as them
selves.
Skirts for girls Of IA years reach quite to
the shoe tie. At sweet 16 they become as
long as any other woman's. The tiny tots no
longer wear skirts down to their heels, but
have them of sensible midleg brevity up to
II years old
Fullness of skirt is the point most insisted
on in the costuming Of young folks this sea-
son. Two full widths Of Bingham are used
for very small children, three for years or
so, and three full breadths of cashmere for
misses of and thereabout.
Sweet girl graduates will wear white veil
ing crepeline or India silk made with full
belted waists, and sleeves and skirts either
accordion plated or else deeply shirred or
tucked lengthwise at top. A belt OF wide
folds or an empire sash finishes the waist.
Black lace bonnets are more than ever in
favor. Both toque and capote shapes are
seen, and are made up with prirn demure-
ness that is wonderfully fetching if their
wearer happens to be in the least good look
ing Narrow ribbon and crushed roses divide
the honors as trimming.
very handsome novelty is nuns yelling
with ten rows Of inch wide MORE ribbon in
woven along the edge that is to make the
foot OF the skirt Another is snowflake crepe
cloth with white handkerchief panels in
woven whose corners will decorate the points
of tho jacket and draperies. York Com
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