Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-27
FASHIONS CAPRICES.
The Newest Thing in Wraps for the
Season
THE coNNEMARA cAPE-FAsHIoN RUNNING IN
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF srYLE-BoNSErs AND
HATS AT THE EASTER oPENINGs-BEcoMING
WRAPS AND JACKETS FOR STYLISH YOUNG GIRLS.
From our Own Correspondent.

HATS AT THE EASTER oPEyINGs-BEcoMING
WRAPS AND JACKETS FOR STYLISH YOUNG GIRLS.
From our Own Correspondent.
New YORK. April &c. 1889.
Dress has not become an altogether beautiful
thing. but 1t sometimes touches beauty in a
true sense and becomes as much of pleasure
even to look at as any other so nearly perfect
thing in art or nature. Such inspirations are
not possible often. and when they occur one
wonders if the happy maker understood all the
suggestiveness, felt all the charm of the work,
and II the wearer will be equally happy-if she
Will perfect the harmony or make it discard
Or India silks there are a hundred different
designs, all bold, striking. original, and more
or less artistic. A few are modest and charm
ing, but the majority are startling, like me-
teors broken up into fragments, palm forms
turned by the wind, white tongues licking flame
out of the fiery ground. or delicate, starry
! blossoms upon leafless vines and branches. The
| poetic suggestiveness of some of these patterns,
and the weird defiance and audacity of others
| quite take ones breath away. So great Is the
demand for them that the supply can hardly
| keep pace with it.
| 1t is curious how much fashion runs in a
| groove, notwithstanding the opportunities for
variety. Few are willing to take the initiative;
the majority want thing because they have seen
| some one else wear it.
THE LATEST THING IN WRAPS.
! One of the great novelties of the season is
| Redfern's COnnemara cape. 1t is composed of
! from three to five or seven separate capes of
| light cloth. in the same or contrasting. or two
shades of the same color. The top cape is a
collar, which is often of plush matching the
darker shade of the cloth. Two blues. two
/ greys. brown and canary black and green. or
all dark green, look well. and they are very use
full for morning. riding or walking. Another
novelty Is a lOunging jacket for ladies. 1t is
made of the pretty Persian cloths, lined and
| faced with silk. 1t is open at the throat but
| folds over iii dOublc-breasted fashion, and
| fastens with two or three straps and buttons.
| There are side pockets, like those of gentle
mans smoking jacket, into which the hands
| may be thrust, and which will hold the handker-
chief. little pencil case, or the like. This
jacket is not for the street or for morning
wear, but for after dinner. 1t is to slip over an
evening dress without disarranging it or cover
ing It, and is at once light. soft and warm
! The new Jackets are very handsome They
are made with separate vests, and can be closed
| or thrown open to form straight revers A
charming design has vest of white corded
| silk. embroidered with silver and gold thread
made INTO cord. and enriched with stitches in
silk. The jacket. of'fawn-colored cloth, has re-
vers which form the collar and cuffs embroid-
| cred to match. The lining is silk the buttons
silver, with little tracery of gold hardly dis
| tluS ulSLdDlt, anu the cut ana III Der1ectlOn
AN ISLE OF WIGHT DRESS
| for travelling and useful wear is of dust-col-
ored cloth checked in fine lines of bronze. gold
and black. The habit. bodice and coat sleeves
are perfectly plain. but the bodice buttons over
! to the left, and the diagonal line is broken bv
/ being cut i'll to form sharp point The front
of the bodice, at the throat and the outer part
/ of the sleeves at the wrist. are cut out in a
small square and filled in solid with very rich
] gold braid, which covers the front of the
| collar. This is quite new touch and
/ Is very original in its effect 1t does hot admit
| of any other finish i'll the shape OF tie. bow
! jewel or collar. The skirt is made over silk
| Is very simple In Its arrangement Its drapery
consists of fold to the left of the front, which
is lifted from underneath, as if slightly raised
| by the hand.
! charming tennis dress is of soft, wood
| brown and canary color; cap to match. The
bodice is blouse of the striped material. with
yoke, deep and pointed of the canary color
! Cuffs of the same. The skirt is plain brown.
| with inserted folds of the stripe. The cap has
soft crown of the brown and straight brim
| OF the stripe arranged in loops. deepening to-
| ward the front and set close together
| The sailor blouse is more generally worn
than ever, in flannel, for boating purposes The
very newest cloth gown is of golden, sand col
ored cloth. exquisitely embroidered with gold
to form two bOdices; one directoire the other
! draped most gracefully. The change is effected
1 IL.
| equally distinctive effects produced.
REVIVAL OF AN ANAQUE GARMENT.
novelty In the shape of a summer pellssc is
/ adapted here as tea gown. 1t is very striking
and fit for a centennial picture. 1t is a straight
dress of an old shade of green silk with huge
| leg-of-mutton sleeves; the trimming consisting
of broad bands of fine gold silk embroidery, in
green and cream and gold. The upper part of
the sleeves must be at least two yards in width
20 Is aierl,t
close together, front and back. This is "A silk
walking pellsse, but no one has yet been found
courageous enough to accept it for that pur-
pose; but quite number of the 'old family"
ladies have adopted it for centennial dinners
and afternoon festivities. With d high tortoise
shell comb and sandalled slippers, ascension
curls on each side of the face, and long pen
dant earrings, they reproduce very faithfully
some OF the pictures of a century ago
One of the finest trousseaus seen in New
York for a long time has been made by a
young firm for Miss Alusgrave. The train of
the bridal dress is of ivory satin brocade in a
beethoven pattern the front of China crepe
very gracefully draped and fastened with a
large rosette OF the crepe, one each side
The bodice and sleeves are i'll the empire STYLE
with long leaves for trimming, and wide sash
of fine, white embroidered lace. arranged with
garnlture OF delicate orange blossoms. The
puffS at the tops of the sleeves are of crepe
! divided by tilament of the lovely lace
a visiting dress il of soft green falle in two
shades, with inserted sides of rose pink cbene
| silk, covered with chantily lace
| Above these panels the green silk is cut into
| wide straps or loops, through which a full
| touncing of the chantilly lace is drawn. form
| ing novel and very graceful side draperies
| A charming and very youthful looking dress
| Is combination of old rose with black lace
! The lace is laid in knife folds and forms an en-
| tire dress, including killed epaulettes on the
| top OF the sleeves. Above this appear sailor
| collar, sash, three little rounded pockets, one
| above the other, only reaching to the shoulder
| of old rose silk. embroidered With a little bor-
| dered coral pattern in fine cut Jet Another Old
| rose and black dress is of India silk with black
| figures and black dotted net mounting drawn
| Ill with old rose ribbons
| SUMMER OUTFIT.
| Quite apart from the show and glitter of the
commonplace, there is a curious oppositeness
in the prevailing fashions, examples of which
/ are often found iii the choice made by the same
| person. In the summer outfit now preparing
| for wealthy lady, is Powered mOusslin de
| sole, made up with lovelicst lace in a pattern
| OF malden-hair ferns over white silk The del
| lcacy and dalntlness of the creation is unspeak-
| able. 1t does not seem that machinery could
| have woven or hands put together this mass of
| tender color and silken nothngness Yet
| beside ii lay another costume for the same per-
| son, i'll red and blue cotton with "a white and
| black coin pattern distributed over it, that
| might have been made for South Sea Islander
| 1t was composed of handkerchiefs with red
border and was made with a blouse waist and
| Brittany skirt tucked up" at the sides The