The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-02-15
FASHIONS FOR THE FAIR
With the Advent Of Spring
Comes a Tempting Ar
ray of New Ma
ter1a1S.
WRlNKLED GOODS VERY POPULAR.
Pretty Evening Dresses for Maid
and MatrOn-Artistic
Sleeves.

At no period Of the year do the mater
ials for the devotee of fashion for the
next season seem more tempting than
now The very sound of spring suggests
so many lovely ideas. Its spring bursts
open for us all nature, and art always fol-
lows in her lead. Woman has already
become tired of her furs and rich but
dark gowns, becoming as they are. She
longs to shine forth in spring attire, and
not a few of her sex have already thought
out and discussed their Easter gowns and
bonnets. For Easter is very late this
year. Now let us see what she will
choose. She has not told, yet how 1T will
be made, but a look around the leading
stores will reveal to us that the season.
able English and French fabrics for
street wear, which have won a world wide
popularity, will be much worn. They are
soft, warm, light and very stylish. The
colors favored are those which represent
the opening of the year, the misty gray
atmosphere, the countless tints of green
of grass and foliage, the soft hues OF vlo-
let and lilac, the tender brown of burst
ing buds, etc. The fabrics do not greatly
deyiate from the ruling taste OF the past
year, and keep within the same lines of
affinity to gentlemen's styles, showing on
neutral grounds fine, indistinct checks,
stripes, 1akes and minute dots.
OTHER MATERIALS.
In the line of woolien goods comes the
camel's hair, which for wear aud tit, de-
serves especial recommendation. Some
new effects are EN- broidered with silk
dots and there will be one other exquisite
wool that has spread over its dyed sur
face a white, translucent film, into which
6-,,roc ~ yurn1pht EraNph mixtures
will be in two colors, or in two shades of
the same color. There will also be Scotch
mixtures. There will be fabrics with a
side band along one selvedge, indicating
the continuance of flat borders for orna-
mentation. These bands are of a darker
shade and have lines of silk worked into
them.
Bedford cord is not new, but it. has
come to stay. 1t will take the place of
ladies' cloth for early spring. 1t will be
light in quality and the cords be but
slightly raised. 1t will be colored In
mixtures that hide the cord; also in lines
that accent the cord; 1t will also be
lines of colored silk, II it will have
scroll patterns in tones of self color.
French challies are always tempting.
They should not be worn by everybody,
however. Tn larger sprays and flowers
which so ~profussly adorn them are trying
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finish to look well. The smaller patterns,
of course, can be more generally worn.
Wrinkled surfaces, made so popular by
the lovely soft, clinging crepe which
drapes eXquisitelv, have gained a strong
foothold. They will lay claim to first
choice in spring materials. The wool
crepe, or crepon, is soft and fine, and its
surface is as varied as the sand wrinkled
bv the washing wave. Que choice sample
of it looks as though it had been pressed
down on u bed OF ferns and retained the
mould. II will be charmingly colored in
two tones, one on the surface and the
other In the depression. This fabric will
be in tipts for street. for house, and for
evening wear. In colors there will be the
usual tan or mode, not quite as yellow
in cast as it is sometimes. grays, greenish
blues, heliotropes and pale gray-greens.
Some have silk dots of contrasting colors.
For street wear crepons will be made up
with both velvet and bengaline.