Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-04-29
SPRING STYLES.
Appropriate Costumes For the Season O
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 Brocaded coats with Vatican backs are among the new importations.
 There is very little change in the shape of skirts, and the ordinary close fitting basque still remains. Full topped sleeves, fitting comfortably be- low the elbows, are still the favorites. For summer dresses, very full sleeves with fitted cuffs will be preferred for thinner fabrics. The regular lego mutton sleeve with qualifications will prevail for costumes of all sorts.
 spring suit of fine camel's hair has a slightly trained skirt and waist which is made with yoke, from which straight widths fall one-third the length of the skirt. This fullness is shirred into belt about two inches wide. The shirring is covered by a very rich belt of gold tiligree. The collar, deep cuffs, the edge of the basque-skirt and the hem of the skirt are finished with passementerie, in which there is a large admixture of gold.
 There is decided fancy just now for natty, pretty black or colored waists They are made of cloth, silk, or velvet, and are worn with skirts of black silk, camefs hair, or, indeed, any other popular black fabric. These waists are of all sorts; from sthe simple and be- coming blouse, which may be worn by misses and young ladies, to the more elaborate velvet or brocaded dress-coat suitable for the matron, or the lady of advanced years.
 A visiting dress of silk, of almost any popular color or quality, so that it is good, will be almost a necessity for evening wear, afternoon receptions, aad the occasional dressy enter tainments in which every one is likely to take part. This silk should be trimmed with passementerie or garniture of this character. Lace is scarcely formal enough for handsome colored silk. It will do better for black. Indeed, judieiously used, it is one of the most elegant of trimmings, and will be popular during the entire season.
 One of the new ideas in the trimming of a cloth dress is a band of plain velvet around the hem of the skirt From this are bands of velvet of graduated length extended up the skirt and fin- ished at the ends with square bows. The bodice is edged with ribbon, and from the collar over the front and back are graduated bands of ribbon also with bows at the ends. The sleeves have straps of ribbon over the puffs nearly to the elbows The cuffs are finished in the same way. At the back of the collar is small bow with ribbon ends falling almost to the hem of the skirt. A suit of this sort has color and cuffs of closely curling feather trimmings.
 There is a great variety in bodices, basques, waists and coats of various lengths. Some of the new dress coats are of cloth with sleeves of velvet or bengaline. There are extra skirts and panels also of velvet or other combina- tion material. A novel design has the body of fine, close-woven camels hair The fronts of the basque, which falls about eighteen inches below the waist line, are of the cloth. The skirt portion is cut off at the second dart, and large, square sections are fitted over the hips. These are finished with very rich orna- ments or passementerie. Velvet sleeves are in leg-o'-mutton shape, and have elaborately trimmed cuffs of the camels hair and velvet, with passementerie.- N. Y. Ledger.