Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-03-28
FASHION NOTES.

Black fox and beaver are the mourning
furs. Seal is tab0oed.
Green is high favor. With gold
braid, old lace or white cloth IA green toilet
isvery stylish.
Ladies are affecting smoking jackets.
For this lounging coat black Amazon Goth
is made up with rivers of bright scarlet.
green or yellow, softened by passementerie
embroidery.
Homespuns are not only fashionable
but the very best investment that can be
made for street wear. If ''sponged' be-
fore making, the cloth can be worn in the
hardest storms without injury.
The Andalom styles are the special de-
hight of thin women. If there is enough
robes. cut with a full or training skirt are
selected and the pulled waistcoat or
baggy tabliere runs from the neck TO the
| belt.
Divided waists are the fancy of the hour.
At a recent opening basque of green
| cashmere had the left side made in linen
| plaits and was considered masterpiece.
Another style much admired was figured
grenshine with half the breast draped in
| silver net.
War has commenced on skirts of all
sorts and strong effort is being made to
| Introduce jersey tights. which are worn
| over light underwear and take the place
| of stockings and skirts. They can be had
in eighteen different shades of color. The
feet are of light weave. and over this
| dressmakerS claim a perfectly hanging
skirt can be worn. while the physical
| culture people advocate its adoption on
| appO11nt of fraaIpu, II, yUa ll-inCr
There will be strong effort made to
! introduce the quarter-length jacket for
| early spring wear. Some of these Jackets
| already made up of fine faced cloth are
| furnished with double rows of cotton up
the front, holding the jacket smoothly
| to the figure around the waist and hips
like the old cuirass basque of years ago.
Ladies making up cotton dresses for the
| coming season are advised that all new
models for these dresses are severely plain.
| Embroideries are rich, but are Sparingly
used. The all-over embroiderieS formerly
used for fronts and yoke have almost
| disappeared from the merchants counters.
An excellent nodded for a ginghan dress
| for slight figure around waist, is
a full sleeve held together by group of
| three or four fine tucks about three inches
| long placed in the center of the outside of
! the sleeve near the elbow The full, round
skirts is then left ithout drapery, with a
| deep hem at at the foot and tuckS, or with
an embroidered front breadth, when the
neck and sleeves of the corsage are finished
with bands of embroidery or Nandyke col
| lar and cuffs
Matched sets of embroidery in from
three to six different widths, with
insertions in the same patterns, are shown
in open Fayal work, in old English eyelet
! designs, and in close work suitable for IN
| derwear The excellent modOpolain EN-
| broideries, which come on this strong per-
care in unlaundered lengths of four and a
half yards are the most durable sold.
| They are imported in width from an inch
| to three inches, with insertions to match.
Vandyke robes are shown in coIored
| zephyrs with borders of sharply pointed
white embroidery and in white set Grecian
| borders in cOlors turning up from the hem
| stitched hem which nov borders all en-
broidered goods Colored zephyrs with
white borders art imported in old rose,
| ecru, pale blue, cardinal, sage and rose
pink. White roses are bordered in color
with rectangular drop" bands in yellow,
| pale pink, blue or ccru. Four and a half
! loluS VI Gut tLuDIOluclS IOilN lNc lliCIltS
wide, four and half yards to narrow EN-
broidery and ten yards of plain goods are
included in one ofthese dress patterns.
Corah silks, the old fashioned bandana
or handkerchief silk. come TO this country
imported from India and stamped in
variety of Damascus and French patterns
! in London. These are the strongest India
styles made, outwearing a hand made foul
ard of ordinary quality, They are thirty
six inches wide and come only in seven
yard pieces Patterns in lovely old Cash
mere colors, in Damascus tulip and other
conventionalized leaf and flower designs,
are sold at a lower price than those print
ed in more modern French flower patterns.
These silks are used in Persian and flower
patterns for matinees and parts of house
gowns, or IN dark colors with set figures,
or in plain, unstamped gowns for service
able travelling dresses.