Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-03-06

You have not an idea-we sure of it-what really
beautiful Dress Combinations the fashion plates are
showing for spring wear. 1t is not over-eucouraging
to think spring-or talk ii ether-whle we are hav-
ing such winterish spell-but this is winters
dying gasp. fou remember the old saying-"March
comes in like lion and goes out like amb"-It is
re sonabe to calculate on tempered, moderatin2
weather from now on. Grant that-and your cos
tunes of the past months will soon be passe. few
days Of warm. glowing sunshine and nature will bud
and blossom on every tree and bush and twg. The
balDy air Will mellow the shrill note Of the bird into
sweetest lulaby-Ought you not to be ready to COM
plete the pictures Look at the variety side a mo-
ment-will you not feel better on your afternoon
promenade attired in some fresh fancy! That is only
human-no more. What scope you will have, too
There can hardly be taste that this seasons conngs
Will rot supply.
The Damasse Combinations are to be most popular
The way the colors are blended running from one
contrast into onotheralmost impcrceptibe where the
ends and the other begins-develors new field !or
ideas. Heliotrope with the figures shading into a
Bronze Sage, running into Vandyke Brown and back
again GobeIin, with Bronzy figures; Tan, supporting
uniting Of uoben and Rose; Bisque. with tapestry
figures in silver relief Cadet shading into old rose
decorations. Naming-them the harsh contrasts
frighten one. Looking at then-and you wonder They
glide from to the other and back again-without a
grating on the artistic sight Rather they create
satisfaction-an enthusiasm. Any Of these combina-
ticns-Sl5.
Gray and Gobelin with corrugated Velvet Panels,
$50 Here is elegance for you
Moucho.r Combinations in Cadet, Gray. Reseda Ser
pent, &c, mingling in Silver. The pqttern-Sl2
EeotrOpe-Bue-with fronts OF he same over pure
white. Can You aot iIlagil the rich efect:-SlJ
Serges in Navy, Amethyst Roses and Gray combin-
ing with White Nandykes for fronts Patterns in Sill.
yer Gray Rose and Brown with Striped Velvet Gros
Grain aud Lace Faneis-S22. 80.
Henriettas III Rose, Apple Green Gray with Black
Vandyke fronts-S35. Tempting.
Here's u novety-4l inch Serg.s, in G Jbelin Cream
and Gray-bordered with O couple Of dozen rows of
narrow stripes-Brown-b orlcred with deeper tome
Old Rose bordering Ashes OF LacGray tapered off in
the same shade. Electric supporting border of
Brown fading TO Tan-Applc Green with Eifel-TaD
with Rose and Apple Green-only Sic. yard
For ordinary street wear for Iaunt We have some
Str1pes ana CAecKs-new etccts--lu O-inch weayes-
Toe. Touch, style and serNiceaD.lity AT once.
1he IO-lncn Anguish Sutings are ) 80 a yarl-col-
le.tively Help yourselves 10 pattern pleases
you.
The 3S.ipch quslity-tor half dollar-we are show
tonishins We are proud Of it-but its q wonder new
ertheless.
II was not designers apprentice that thought on.
the combinations lur this sprlng-wIs il! master
mud did IT. bold, daring violation OF past id,I, of
appropriate couplings. But II las proven success
There is nothing tasty-n any outside Of these
We are showins. 1t may be tribe selfish in US but
on many OF them we hold the crciusjpe However, we
do not want Them to get Cheap" uy nllmeru,l, usage
HE dantlest conceptions will tire you 1t they once GET
''coIninon."
The prices you will find no different They are the
SAME ~ though The patterns were Of the ordinary