The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-08
The Latest Novelties.

Easter hose are bizarre to the last inch
of the leg. They come in such a variety
of shades that one can easily select pair
to accord with the color OF the gown.
ALL the dress sleeves are very long for
street wear and all the women who are
blessed with pretty hands wear broad
white cuffs extending three or four inches
below the dress sleeve. Link sleeve but
tons are employed.
All the Easter hats are turned up at the
back. All the Easter hats have flower
gardens upon them. Nearly all the Easter
hats have American Beauty roses nesting
in front Of the brim and more roses still
6anking the uptilted back
The Easter gir,s are wearing the scoop
hats similar 70 those shown them In felt
last fall. These are largo, fiat and have an
upward tilt in front quite different from
the poke, yet suggesting ii in being be-
coming 10 round full faces with plenty of
color.
Mrs. Cleveland's. daisy gown of tan and
blue is being widely copied and with but
few changes. The dress is of blue cloth.
The trimming is of tan with daisies en-
broidered upon it. The top row of daisies
is cut out of the tan and is appliqued upon
the blue material which forms the founda-
ton OF the gown. This isd done all around
the underskirt. The tan girdle is treated
the same way.
For all young ladies, misses under nine
teen or twenty, it is perfectly good form
to wear the hair flowing down the back
and confined at the neck by a ribbon.
The hair must not be drawn tightly I'M
derneath the ribbon, but must rather, be
allowed to hang loosely about the ears
and temples. The style is particularly be-
coming to slender misses who gain grace
by this manner of Embarrassing which is
not otherwise obtaiDable.
A beautiful blue gown of a shade much
resembling navy blue is made OF blue
silk and cloth. The skirt is of cloth made
in plain habit pattern. The waist has a
full vest confined at the belt by deep
corslet of blue silk studded with jeweled
nail-heads. Full sleeves of the silk are
also studded with nail-heads, as is also the
collar. The corslet is secured by invis-
ible fastenings. A Louis XIV. coat of blue
silk accompanies this. The coat has deep
cults with immense jewel ed ornaments
upon them.
Bernhard gave the women of New
York a valuable lesson upon the art of
preserving ones own individuality and
personal beauty above all the eccentrici-
ties OF dress. IL was she who introduced
jewels into dress trimmings and who used
them Tor ornaments in hitherto unac-
customed places. Yet, with all her Jew
eled display, Bernhardt preserved her own
beauty in a way which did not occur to
many OF her imitators. Never were dia-
monds or cleaning stones of any sort
placed in her ears or against her skin.
The pretty flesh tints were left unrivaled
by gems and were brought out by the col
ors of the gown. Jewels cleaned in the
girdles, epaulets and dress trimmings, but
never were they placed so near the skin
as to deprive it of its own pretty tints.
The Easter bonnets are semi-toque in
style and semi-bonnet in shape. Lace,
lace-straw, ribbons and flowers mingle
lovingly in pleasing disorder which is,
after all, variety of real order of the
artistic sort. Lying fiat upon the pretty
Cleopatra waves which dress the fashion
able woman's head is a deep band
of forget-me-nots or violets. Over
tapping this is an irregular arrange
ment Of lace-straw, deep at the sides, mar
row in front and entirely lacking in the
back. Then comes a bunch OF lace in
front and pretty little lace rufiling along
the sides. At the top of all is velvet rib
bon. Velvet streamers ara fastened at the
back and are left TO meander adown the
neck and shoulders at their own curly