River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-05-26
NOTES ON THE MODES.
SeasonabIe Suggestions the Cure
STYLES i'm Woman's Wear.

Seasonable Suggestions on the Current
styles i'm Woman's Wear.
The proper caper in gloves to wear
with tailor gowns is of fine Swedish l1i6
matching the costume in color.
The polxe-bonnct has come but has
not conquered aud, indeed, for the pres.
emit at least has been rejected. Small
bonnets and large round hats will con.
tinue in popular favor for the coming
season at least.
The famous Partisan dressmal1er Felix
is making walking dresses for women
who decline to drag the lower part OF
their gowns about the streets with
round skirts that comes near to the
ground yet just escape touching it.
While French ginghams, batistes,
chambrays and other wash fabrics are
still popular, challis and pretty-figured
veilings are to degree usurping theii
place. These last are cut in princess
form, with the back plated or gathered
below the waist and with the front
slightly draped.
The importation of shot silk parasols
is very large this season. These anC
those of figured changeable silk simply
finished with gathered pinlSed frills OF
the same, or with tape fringe, win be
generally carried, except for dress oc-
casions, when those of chiffon and 9TH
er fancy materials will be used.
The Queen Anne shoe, with the long
in-step-fap and glittering buckle, is a
very fashionable NODDED designed to be
worn with tea-gowns and other dressy
home toilets. However, the low-cut
shoes and sandals of plain black un.
dressed kid simply wrought with jet
beads are much more graceful and be
coming.
A modish and popular combination is
gray with pale yellow or cream. a
fashionable costume of this combination
is of gray cloth, with vest girdle and
broad bias band about the skirt OF
cream-white cloth bordered on either
side with an applique of gold and silver
galloon dotted with small steel and
pearl nail-heads.
All sorts of crinlled goods are very
popular this season. There are the
crepons of soft, fine wool, dainty snow
faxed crepes and dotted or striped
fabrics in silk and wool, corduroy ma.
terials as sheer as crepon, yet ribbed
like Bedford cord, and various other
semi-diaphanous fabrics as deeply
crinlxled as in English Grape.
Wool dresses are no longer, as for
merly, used for calling and similar oc-
casions TO the exclusion of silks and
other more elaborate costumes. Women
who are quick to see the drift OF fashion
now wear from four to seven o'clock in
the afternoon, for promenade, calls, five
o'clock teas and exhibitions, handsome
toilets of silk in light shades, with a
bonnet correspondingly dressy and ele-
CANT.
Chemisettes and blouse vests of va
rious delicate shades of surah silk. OF
of silk batiste. are being made by the
most fashionable modistes to be worn
with the open-fronted toilets that
are being finished for summer wear.
They are made withholding collars,
trimmed with fine valencienes lace
abouv two inches wide. The front is
tucked, and at the closing has lace
edged ruffie.
A beautiful and striking Felix dress
is of black Russian vclours with cord
stripes of green, and with threads OF
gold and copper between. This dress
has a corsage of black mousseline de
sole plated to jeweled yoke and belt
ed by wide black ribbon. The bell
skirt is lined with pale blue taffeta, and
is edged at the foot with loops of black
satin ribbon falling on similar loops of
pale-blue satin ribbon. N. Y Post.