The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-05-25
IDEAS FOR DRESS.


Hat crowns grow lower.
The Hading veil is moribund.
Toques grow more pointed in front.
The tea gown bids fair to live forever.
A new shade Of pink is called raw veal.
Green remains the color most in vogue
Spring willow is a lovely shade Of
golden green.
The peacock's feathers are no longer in
vogue.
Pompeiian blue looks royal and beauti-
sul in velvets and plushes.
The favorite rose for white and rose
tulle bonnets is the eglantine.
Black null, drawn hats and bonnets
are in fashion for country wear.
Round waists and belts are gradually
displacing pointed bodices and basques.
The yellow mimosa is favorite trim
ming flower this spring on black hats and
bonnets.
Dresses of pale green crepe de chine
are now fashionable with black gloves
and ribbons.
The ball gown of the passing month
is poem of freshness, gauzy lightness
and simplicity.
The newest blue is the wonderful Pom
peiian, the brightest and most difficult
of all blues to produce.
Wider and wider in front and narrow
er in the back grow the brims of this sea
sons low crowned hats.
The newest fabric for little girls wear
is plaided mohair, light in texture and
artistic in color combinations.
The striped tennis gown as well as the
beach gown is frequently worn with a
striped Cowes cap to match it.
Brilliant striped beach gowns, with
Cowes caps of the striped stuff to match
are in preparation for the seaside.
The newest tea gowns are the medi
@val, with cuirass corsages, full skirts
and antique sleeves of every variety.
The most fashionable bonnets are moi
much bigger than ones fist, and are
guiltless of flowers, feathers or birds.
Many new shades of green have beer
brought out as rivals to the still fash
ionable empire green of brightest EN-
erald hue.
The directoire "coat" of the passing
season is a model repetition of the Goa
worn by Charles Surface in the "Schoo
for Scandal"
Next in favor of green come shades O
red brown, dull brick, terra Gotta anC
Egyptian red, which are seen in botl
dark and light shades
Cinderella slippers, almost covered
with fine crystal and tinted beads, look
ing as if actually made of glass, will bt
worn by many ladies this season.
Among other lace novelties of tn,
toilet are Spanish pelerines-black lac,
shoulder capes with long scarf ends tha
fall to the bottom of the dress skirt.
The new jerseys are made in man,
different ways. resembling in cut ant
style the most fashionable bodices of di
rectory, empire and Josephine gowns.
Old rose and crushed strawberry
shades are again fully established il
fashionable favor, but they are mucl
improved, being far more creamy anC
delicate.
Black and yellow is favorite comb
nation, black straw hats taking yellow
ribbons and flowers, and yellow straw
hats taking black ribbons and blacl
feathers.
The wrap in highest favor is the on,
that partakes of both the jacket anC
cape, tight fitting bodice, withou
sleeves, over which loose cape reache,
to the waist.
The newest and unique tints in MILL
merry are magnolia, anemone pink, oal
heart, English rose, lily leaf green opa
gray, summer sky, raspberry and spring
willow green.
The thinner textures for real hot wea
ther are fresh and charming and alsc
luxurious, being mostly the open worl
tissues from far India. These are as ex
pensive as satin or velvet.
The latest production of the English
glass makers is a mottled white, ros,
colored and clear crystal, that gives the
effect of white and pink rose petals in {
clear glass bowl, jar, vase, fagon
pitcher OF dish.
The corsages of those gowns which
are made of the costliest semi-diapha
nous and transparent tissues have crossed
surplices on the bosoms in empire style,
belted and pointed waists and airy scarfs
that cross and tie in easy artistic folds.
The fancy wraps of this season arc
legion. There are corsage bodices with
deep lace wings, Able Gallant capes
empire mantles, Louis XIV coats, pele.
rines and pelisses of lace, and long lace
Connemara cloaks, and ever so many
more
1t is limited that the next freak in wells
will be a return to those large, long,
blonde lace ones in vogue about forty
years ago, which were generally worn
tied around the high crown of the Dun
stable bonnet and thrown back, falling
like a long mantle over the shoulder to
distance below the waist linc.-New
York Sun,