Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-06

THIS season in dress is a show and gaudy
one.
JACKETS are now worn short and tight
fitting like bodice, with small revers and
puffed up sleeves, one tiny pocket with flap
on each side.
MUCH beading and passementerie of all
sorts are used. The perfectly plain skirts
are no longer considered stylish. A beading
must be placed above the hem, or cording
added to give the proper finish.
COLLAR and cuff trimmings come in gold,
silver, bronze and all the varying shades OF
these colors. By means of them an other
wise common-appearing dress can be glori-
fed and beautifled into a thing of beauty.
PRINTED lisse is the newest fabric for
jabots, fichus and like confections. So artis-
tically is the printing done that it looks to a
passing glance like painting. Tiny leaves and
flowers in brown and pale tints are struck
over white, or perhaps over some subtle
shade of yellow or lavender.
THEREappears in the show windows broad
satin ribbon in all shades, dotted with imita-
tion turquois, emeralds, opals and moon
stones. These are set irregularly at every
inch OF the ribbons length. All varieties OF
bright galloon can be obtained in any color,
decorated with stones of any other variety.
BLACK lace dresses are being recalled into
popularity. Ayear ago every woman, young
or old, who made any pretensions to fash
ionable dressing, numbered in her wardrobe
at least one net dress. For a season the net
dress has been upon the wane, but modistes
announce that the spring trade finds many
of these gowns In the shops.
Mosr exquisite pearl garnitures for waists,
including a girdle side trimmings, collar
and sleeve pieces, can be obtained at any of
the large stores that deal in very nice ma
terialS. A lovely pearl set, suitable for wear
ing over any dark material, consists of a
solid network of beading extending over the
complete right side of the basque.
RIBBONS are used in great profusion on
summer dresses of every description; in the
graceful long-looped bows that are ALWAYS
popular, in the more precise choux, in up
right bows on the shoulders, in panel-like
effects on the skirt, produced by three or
five perpendicular rows, each terminated by
bow at the 1oot-in fact in any pretty way
that fancy may dictate.
By strange freak of fashion, while ladies
wear the tiniest of bonnets little girls have
their pretty heads ensconced within enor-
nous capotes of gathered silk and lace.
The smaller the child the larger the head
gear. Some would look quite ridiculous if
they were not so perfectly lovely under the
large protruding border of the pale, pink
capote, trimmed with white tulle and lace
For everyday walking dresses we prefer
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which can be easily upheld with one hand.
especially when of light texture. Dresses of
muslin-delaine, with small patterns printed
in colors over q light ground; are often
With a heading round the foot, unless there
is border printed for the purpose, when no
extra trimming is necessary.
THE "dress suspender' is decidedly de-
sideratum this season, for skirts are long,
and always more or less trailing on the
ground at the back. They are quite plain in
front, with a few plaits at the back only In
it is scarcely SO. The necessity of holding
up ones skirts to avoid mud or dust take
away all the harmonious outlines of the
dress, which, to look well, requires to be
long and flowing.
THE fashionable woman will be as mascu.
line in her attire as the still remaining in
cumbrance of petticoats will permit. She
will have her shirts, and caps, and mems
scarfs: in addition TO these, she will still
have the tailor-made gown, which will be
built more mannish than ever. White
duck and straight-out vests make
up their toilets, with white linen shirt
front with three gold buttons, and over the
shirt bosom fastened black doeskin or
broadcloth vest exactly similar to gentle
mans garment
SOME of the sun umbrellas will be chosen
for their solidity and strength, while Others
will be admired for their slender elegance,
the latter having corrugated metal sticks,
the ribs folding into the corrugations. A
few have small nickel tubes In mounts and
handles the tendency is toward plain woods
again, and the oxidized silver shown in
other seasons is seen in less variety. New
and grotesque crook forms in bamboo and
wanghee sticks find favor. Pleasing effects
are shown in ornameRted, rough, uatu1wl
knobs Polished rubber is returning to ia
vor in parasol mounts -