The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-04-11
Feminine Fancies.

favor.
The new nuns veilings come with
borders and sometimes fringes on one
selvage.
Feathers take the lead on evening
dresses and are dyed in all colors to
match costumes.
A vandyked border on one selvage
finished with fringe is a novelty In
fancy nuns veiliDgs.
The combination of white with yellow
or white and gold is much favored for
evening dress.
The general tendency of spring
goods is to greater elegance Of material
and more simplicity in the cut of gown
Black serges with checked borders,
black on black, are likely to be favored
the coming season by ladies in mourn.
ing.
Green will be as popular during the
coming spring and summer months as
it was throughout the past season.
Pompadour ribbons of various widths
are stitched on evening dresses in rows
from the neck to the hem of the toilet.
Many of the new suitings brought
out for tailor gowns have fripged Dor
ders in contrasting color on one sell
wage.
All the new bonnets are very small
The front have sometimes wired lace
lappets for trimmings. which look like
butterflies wings.
The new jackets of heliotrope Eng
lish cloth have sabran waistcoats of
pretty colored kid trimmed with silk
applique work the shade of the coat
Shepherds plaids still hold their
own, and are in new shades and pin
stripes in two colors; or two or three
shades of same color will be fashionable.
Sleeves will remain very full at the
top, narrowing toward the fore arm,
where they are buttoned or mock but
toned to wrist and variously ornament
ed.
Barred, plaided, checked and striped
mohairs and alpacas come in all the
color combinations seen in the wool
tartans and zephyrs of this spring.
The new mohairs and aipacas are
more lustrous than those of last spring
and they come in all the new colors that
are seen in other spring fabrics.
The new ginehams and zephyrs come
in new and novel, fancy as we'll as clan
tartans and in stripes and broche figures
on stripes and plain grounds.
Fur shoulder capes will be worn all
through the spring with wool dresses
that are not provided with wool jackets
to match, and also with black net and
India silk gowns.
A garment now the rage abroad is
The "polonaise Parisianne." l: is
long tight fitting redingote, made of
checked cloth and trimmed with bands
Of ribbon velvet.
The hair will be worn lower on the
neck than ever and caught with visible
or invisible slides. Any appearance of
wire hairpins is discarded in favor of
very fine tortise shell pins.
Very striking Louis Quinze jackets
are of black cloth, outlined with dead
gold braidings; and more picturesque
still are the rcd Medici Danish coats
embroidered in black and gold.
The tea jacket is again in favor and
made Of dainty soft materials like Indi,
silks, surahs, nuns yelling. crepe de
chimes. ETC., it becomes the most fasci-
mating of home toilets.
Street gowns grow more and more
quiet and puritanical in effect. The
reverse is seen in house gowns OF all
sinds, for dinner, teas, at home in the
afternoons and evenings.
Mohair and nurs cloth will be the rage
for early spring dresses. In making
up this wiry material the straight Eng
fish cores are used, with all the fulness
gathered or pleated in the back.
Both ribbon and braid will be used
ior trimming through the use of lace
will be the distinguishing feature OF
he season. There will be lace in
flounces and furbelows from dainty neck
to tiny shoe top on almost everything.