Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-05-10
FASHIONS MIRROR.
Latest Things In Gowns, Trim
mings, Hats, Etc.
Dorothy n. Lewis Writes EntertaiDinGl.
About Matters of Dress That VIII
Interest Women, and Also
the sterner Sex.
When in doubt wear gloves

son in being htted closely TO the ngure,
with short postillions at the back like
the waist of riding habit. The short
fronts are fitted smoothly by single
'tform" to the figure, and attenuated to
a point at the bottom.
A simple and refined gown for a
young girl has what is called a corselet-
tunic skirt and corselet put in one),
made of wooden material of dull red,
irregularly striped with pale tan. The
full skirt waist is Of plaid foulard in
the same colors. The puffs of the
sleeves are of the plaid foulard; the
lower part of the sleeve fitting the arm
is Of dull red wool The top of the
corselet and the collar, are prettily
trimmed with velvet in the same red
shade
There are many crepons brought out
again in changeable effects in all the
new colors of the season, with trim
mings of miroir velvets, silks and gay
embroideriea Among the most beau
tiful embroideries are those of Suede
colored leather on a transparent back
ground with Venetian guipure with a
touch Of delicate color.
There are other embroideries bright
ened with spangles in various colors
closely wrought in q background of
French metal-gold, silver or copper.
The trimmings in colored band crochet
in a medley of Circassian tints are
among the most beautiful and costly
Of garnitures. Point de Genes laces
are imported this season in colors,
either dark blue, red or black, with
ecru.
The steel and jet trimmings are not
confined to gowns, but serve to make
some Of the new hosiery conspicuous as
is at all desirable. Black hose
have bullion embroidery of steel and
Jet covering the instep and the front Of
the leg to the height of a very high
boot. Other all-black hose have bow
knot bouquets embroidered in colored
silks.
The new silks and woods are in excel
lent accord with the gown styles. For
once the nodistes have succeeded in
eclipsing the milliners in the general
4 interest aroused by their displays
Nothing like the present excitement
has been known in the costume parlors
for years.
The careful sister might whisper in
her brothers ear that calling cards for
men are appreciably larger this year
than have been used for some time
past Men are, most of them, careless
4 in these little matters of change; but
if they pretend to keep up with the al
| tering styles at all they should be as
sisted once in a while by their woman
kind.
Childrens hats have oblong crowns
l I1o1R 80, So1
| hounces of lace, often six inches wide,
droop only with the support afforded
by the body of the lace or by invisible
wires.
| Bingham hats are shirred on cords
| set in groups and at half-inch intervals.
Wide brims prevail in these hats, and
rufles of embroidery are on the brim
edge. The crowns are the cone-shaped,
the BEEHIVE or dome, the large tam, and
a crown high and sloping, with tiny
tam perched on top. Wide strings OF
the hat material are fastened at the
sides. The broad strings are on hats
of crepe and fancy straw.
The summer silks are made up in
many delightful ways. The daintiest
silks are those of taffeta and other ligh,
qualities, which have little more stiff.
ness in their weave than the soft surah
and India silks which lend themselves
to draperies but not to faring effects.
For the same reason those who know
predict the return of the oldtime gros
grain and the departure of soft fable
Franchise and all silks of a soft, cling
ing nature.
A dainty gown of seeded silk in pale
violet, changing to cream, is trimmed
with rufies of creamy point de Genes
worked with violet. A rufde of the
| lace il set on the bottom of the Skin
and In surmounted by another of sill
4 three inches wide, hemmed on both side.
and put on with q slight heading.
second group of ruffles Of the same siz,
as the first is placed at the knees, anG
| a third around the shoulders of the full
bodice to give the wide 1880 effect. 4
soft Empire belt of the silk surround!
the waist. and the large leg O. muttol
sleeves droop toward the elbow. Still
smother gown of dark green silk i
striped In quarter-inch stripes in creamy
white satin, and finished with a wild
rufle of lace, festooned at intervals ant
headed by a ribbon caught down b,
square bows. The white vest of tn
bodice is striped with wide lines of darl
green embroidery nearly covering tn
ground, and the large green sleeve
with their balloon puffs are made quit
close to the forearm and finished witt
. cuff Of white wrought with striligh
lines Of embroidery.
The new chene skirts are soft an,
take gathers nicely. ; Many have tn
skirts trimmed with only one hounc
or narrow ruffle of silk or lace, or pei
haps with q band of openwork lac
over q lining of colored satin. N
skirt, however. Ii prettier on the thi
silks than tho skirt full of Aounces-
|, that in, hounced from waist to foot L
. rufaes Of six-iRch width. or graduating
/ | from SIX to eight 10 or 10 inches TIL
! Aounces are of the silk, and are PREF
/ test when pinked top and bottom an
) put on with q narrow rufio heading
: the heading on the top fiounoe only
1 the aounces overlap. or on all If the
/ are set on separately.
A charming design for trimming til
silk skirts is that of q succession of nal