The Republican., 1890-04-05
DRESS AND FASHION.
Novelties at Home and AbrOad-Hints OF
Many Subjects. +.

Novelties at Home and AbrOad-Hints on
Many Subjects. ~
Yokes and guimpes of velvet go with
velvet sleeves.
Jewelry, real and imitation, is more
worn than ever.
Large-howered and small pompadour
fowered brocades are among the new
silks
Feather boas and stoles and triple
capes of cloth will be much worn with
Sool gowns.
Many OF the new silk petticoats are
trimmed with flots of ribbon and cas-
cades and ruffies of lace.
Small bonnets are worn on dressy occa-
sions and in the evening, larger ones
and hats for street wear.
Tartans, Scotch colors in broad stripes,
and bordered robes are the pronounced
novelties in woolen stuffs.
Heliotrope velvet slippers, with pink
silk stockings, are new fancy of those
who like that sort of thing.
Narrow side panels of silk are some
times introduced in the plated or plain
skirts of wool, tartan or striped gowns.
Yellow ionquils and purple violets are
favorite flowers for combination in cor
sage bouquets just at the moment.
Home gowns for the early spring are
made very simply, without bustles or
loopings, and with slight train in the
back.
Spanish colors, Spanish styles. Tor
reador hats, and red, black and yellow
of, -,
fashions.
No bustles are worn, but the French
gowns have very small cushions of hair
under the plaits in the back of the
skirts.
White cloth gowns made in dressy
styles, and braided with gold and silver,
are now in favor for ball dresses here
and abroad.
Birds, bees, butterflies and other in
sects in the acts of fight are embroid-
cred in jet and tinsel all across the bod
ices and skirts of new ball gowns.
Triple capes matching the dress, or Of
dark blue or green or black cloth, or
white or scarlet for evening wear. or Of
drab or gray for the street, are the ia
vorite light wraps for informal occasions.
The fronts of many gowns of tartan,
cheviot and velveteen are made of silk
to match, forming kind of draped tab
lier between the sides of the outer skirt
of one or the other above mentioned
materials.
Now silk petticoats, f1ounced with
lace and pinked-out rutfies, are the
latest fad in underwear. They come in
glace, plated and barred, striped and
plain silks, and are taking" at once
with the girls of the 400"
A clasp or slide of jet or jeweled
metal, two and half or three inches
long, is an almost necessity of a lady 8
wardrobe effects at present. 1t is used
to fasten the broad soft sash, belt, or
surplice draperies of lady's bodice, be-
ing placed in a perpendicular line di-
rectly in front under the bosom.
The fashionable finger nail for men,
as we'll as women, is extremely long and
pointed, forming almost a vandyke. 1t
has clawlike effect, which is not very
reassuring to the opposite sex, but,
then, it is English, quite English, al
though it came first from Paris to Lon
don, and now it has reached New York.
The borders of robes take wider
range of designs than ever. They are
broche, woven in vandykes, turrets,
blocks, tartans, horizontal and perpen-
dicular stripes, and palm leaf and other
Oriental designs in Greek, Roman, and
Egyptian figures in medieval and
renaissance, conventional forms, in lace
patterns and leaf and flower forms.-N
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