Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-13
FASHIONS FANCIES.

TIRE "CoLLAPsrBLE" is the title bestowed
| upon the new bonnet that can be shut up like
fan and slowed away in muff or pocket
AMONG THE SUMNER TEXTILES for morning
dresses have already appeared ginghams in
| beautifully fine qualities, and in patterns OF
very large plaids or blocks of stripes in broken
lines OF delicate tintings.
| IRISH PoPLINs will be worn a great deal
mixed with soft wool cloths or silk serges and
| crepalines.
PoMPADoUR FoULARDs, mohairs and Venetian
! challes show many novel tintings and designs.
EMBROIDERED ScAILoPs at the foot of skirts
are by no means so stylish as a plain hem with
insertion above it.
TURKISH BATIsTE is the name of a new cotton
material that is finer than cambria and more
Opaque than lawn. There are plain and gayly
figured goods in this material.
AMONG WHAT ARE KNOWN as demi-season
costumes from Paris are those of India camers
hair, superbly braided, decorated with bands
in silk applique-work, in narrow palms of great
length, arabesques, scrolls, &C.. or finished with
deep borderlngs in Persian or Indian devices
BISHOP SLEEVES will be seen upon many of
the airy summer gowns, these full at the top
and shirred into an embroidered cuff or band
at the wrist.
New FANCY SHOES for evening are of bronze
or patent leather with narrow ribbon stitched
its own width apart across the yamp and orna-
mented with fine feather stitching in colored
silk
FULLNEss OF SKIRT is the point most insisted
on in the costuming of young folks this season.
BLACK LACE BoNNETs are more than ever in
favor. Both toque and capote shapes are seen,
and are made up with prim occurrences that
is wonderfully fetching if their wearer happens
to be in the least good looking. Narrow ribbon
and crushed roses divide the honors as trim
ming.
PLAID Wool SCHOOL Gowns for misses are
cut on the bias throughout.
BUGs, BEETLES, BUTTERFLIES, even spiders,
will seem to crawl and creep over summer hats.
The HASDsoMEsT of new woolens is cash
mere royal" which is really silk with just
enough wool to give the cashmere face.
LoUDNEss is the characteristic of new French
hosiery. Nearly all the stockings have black
grounds barely visible through blocks, squares
and stripes that quite discount the rainbow.
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.
IT is RUNoRED that we are coming back to
powdered hair.
Two OR THREE Rows of Irish lace insertion
let into the petticoats Of wash dresses serve as
the only trimming except that ON the yoke and
sleeves.
HAIR DRKssERs say that If women persist in
dressing their hair on top of their heads there
will be larger percentage Of badness than
has ever been known before.
The NEW HIGH-NEcKED BODICE, which has
made Its appearance at the queens drawing
room, Is called THE Nuremburg.''
A NARROW FACING OF VELVET on the bottom
of dress skirt will prevent its rubbing the in
step of the boot.
A LONDON MADE gown has the entire front
made of Marechal Mel roses.
SOME Of the new parasols have broad stripes
running around the breadtns.
GILT BRAID and other gilt trimmings are no
ticeable features Of imported spring bonnets.
LINEN COLLARS AND CUFFs are only worn
with tailor made gowns.
REAL GREEK gowns button on both shoulders
and under one arm.
FIVE YARDS OF TAFFETA SILK will make and
face a skirt of average length. ---.zr. "a