Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-01
Notes on Spring and Summer
Styles.


Notes on Spring and Summer
Styles.
Very large plaids, which effectively
combine the popular colors, will be
worn this spring by very young ladies
and misses.
Toques, small bonnets of fancy
straw, and large, low-crowned round
hats are being prepared for spring.
Among the most conspicuous hats
already shown is the Merveilleux,
which has a wide brim that pokes
upward and outward, and is trimmed
about the face with a vine and flow
ers or wreath of leaves.
Sleeves full at the top, somewhat
after the mutton-leg style, shoulder
capes, deep collars, shirred and belt
ed waists, and broad revers extend
ing to the belt, are predicted as
among the coming styles.
Dressy spring wraps are made of
black armure silks in finely dotted
royale patterns. They are jacket
shaped behind, with loose mantilla
fronts, and are combined with open
jet forms in lace-like designs. The
jet appears also as plastron, and
sometimes as entire sleeves, deeply
plated lace forming a collar and a
jabot down the front.
There are two distinct STYLES of
walking jackets, both equally popular {:
the close-fitting jacket, which is much
like an ordinary basque, and that
with loose, open fronts and perfectly
fitted vest.
House dresses of black snrah or
alpaca are made with accordion plait-
ed skirts and round waists, with a
broad sash Of MORE ribbon tied be-
hind in loops and long ends.
Black Chantilly laces are not only
to be used the coming season for en-
tire dresses, but are made up in COM
bination with silk, muslin or grena-
dine.
A dress patten of embroidered
nainsook or null is AZ yards, of
which 81 should be used for the
skirt and the remainder for the cor
sage. Gowns of this kind should be
made very simply, with full, straight
skirts and Tapped, belted waists with
open surplice neck, or else a high
pointed yoke waist, also belted. In
either case the sleeves should be full.
Pretty guimpe dresses for the
smallest girls are made of red, blue
or pink chamhrey with baby waists
gathered to belts of white embroider-
ed insertion, and with similar band
at the top of the low, round neck.
The sleeves consist of a short, full
puff, gathered into a narrow embroi-
dered band. Dresses of chambrey or
of plaid or striped bingham are made
with full round skirts with deep hem,
and gathered to belted waists. These
dresses are not so extremely long as
those of last season.
Mothers of girls who are too large
to wear guimpes are making up their
everyday wash dresses for the COM
ing summer with high belted waists,
either with a yoke or plain on the
shoulders, or gathered there on
band in full Russian blouse fashion.
The sleeves are full and the neck and
wrists are finished with plated frills
or turned over collars and cuffs.
Both brides and ties are seen on
the new bonnets, as we'll as the little
strap and bow fastened under the
side Of the chin with fancy headed
pins. Ribbon ties are somewhat
wider than last season, have loops
and ends of about the same length,
and are tied either in front or a trihe
to one side.
Silk or velvet may be used to re-
place partly-worn sleeves in wool
dresses, and soft wrinkled vest may
conceal or remove imperfections in
the bodice. If the shade of the dress
material cannot be matched, black
silk, MORE or velvet may be used.
Three prevalent styles of hair
dressing are known as the ''emigrant
twist, Josephine coronet" and the
"Psyche knot
Effective street dresses for spring
wear are made of dark wool serge,
with black open-patterned galloon
over light cloth as border and vest.
Green appears as garniture upon
both black and white, and dresses of
strawberry and copper tints show
finishing touches of green.
The spring wraps are uniform in
one particular-they are either short
or long, no three quarter models be-
ing shown except few in visite style
for elderly ladies.