The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-02-07
SHOPS and SHOPPING.
What New York Is Talking
About lust Now.
DRESS FABRICS AND TRIMMINGS.
1t Will BE Season for Plain and Me-
dunn Priced Goods-Just Hint OF
Mili'nery-Other Gossip About the
Shops.

MhuneFy-Otner GOSSIP About the
Shops.
Twas over In New York last week and
was delighted to find all the New York
shops exceedingly lively, and the buyers
Tor the big dry goods stores told me that
the prospects for spring business were ex-
ceedingiy bright. A woman must have
gowns 80 long as as the men insist ON
maintaining their cigar and club ex-
penses.
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It's always nice to go through the New
York stores, and not whit less pleasant
to come home and find the best OF all
they show in our home stores. Un-
less you are shopper of experience
the big New York houses stagger pro-
vincial. As a matter OF fact we have some-
thing to be thankful for in our Provi-
dence stores, for they keep up to date.
They are near the metropolis ready to
| produce for US the latest thing
as soon as 1t comes out,
and they make a preliminary selection
for US. They pick out the best and then
we may select from that without foraging
through double and triple sized stocks to
get what you want, and likely as not,
whom you get home, discovering that you
have picked out sonnet hing not half as
pretty - your neighbor has bought on
Westminster street.
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They told me in New York good
many things that had already learned
from looking at the goods now ON the
counters ut home, and GONE
things that /. had half di-
vined. Mixtures and small
effects promise to prevail in spring dress
goods and the very extreme novelty will
perhaps not be quite so much of a rage as
1t has been for a number of seasons past.
suspect the designers of high
novelties have become worn out by the
unremitting strain Of the past few years.
At any rate simple and more staple lines
will have better chance than ever to be
generally popular. With great many
persons they are always popular, serges,
storm serges and cravenelles,
with other plain fabrics, Will
accordingly be more than ever appreciated
and medium priced goods will command
the bulk of woman's trade. This kind of
demand will certainly continue the pretty
tailor made effects in popularity,and black
goods will maintain their ascendancy
with share OF popular favor for
haps-and a good deal of IL for light
shades OF golden brown or green. Crepe
promises to be favorite, too, but crepe
comes within circle somewhat
above what consider medium
priced fabrics. That reminds me
OF pretty new material that perhaps you
haven't seen. II is called crocodile ere
pom. There is suspicion Of camers hair
on its surface which Is isexccedingly pretty
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The Challis are selling splendidly in
New York, as they are here. The proper
and pretty thing 10 do with the silk and
wool fabric is TO make it up into ilounc-
ing effect, the fiounce being caught at
either end with bow-knot Of MORE rib
bon.
When you come to wash goods, / think
there is bigger demand for the higher
priced wash fabrics than has been known
for seasons, il ever bigger demand were
known at all.
Laces, as / think wrote last week. Is
leading favorite for trimming, with moire
ribbons and MORE silks as close rivals.
The silk department, indeed, will be ia
vorite corner this season for trimming
and skirting purposes. Bat the lace
department ought TO do more business
than it has for good many seasons past.
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You can't find spring millinery in New
York yet unless you hunt for it as you
would for the proverbiai needle in hay
stack. The Dry Goods Economist-most
excellent paper that, far ahead OF many OF
the so-called trade papers-tells
me, however, that the few inn
ported London hats that they have
discovered are large with crowns of
coarse, but good quality, straw braid and
velvet brims, and trimmed with tips,
quets ofsmalls flowers or roses against the
hair. Jet shows largely In the early
models which means hope for the trim
ming department in jet goods.
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Shawls OF mousseline de sole arc among
evening shoulder coverings. They are
about yard square and made in white,
blue, pink, lemon or lilac. Being deli
cately ruched they are decidedly becom-
ing.
run over New York was disappointment,
undoubtedly because striking effects were
wanting in so many departments.
But on sober judgment l think
it very good thing, for we
shall have have little peace from the
battle for striking" things, and every
body will be happier accordingly includ-
ing the dry goods men who won't be fret
ted half to death in the struggle to acquire
any sort Of cxtravagant conceit to catch
womans fancy. The SHOPPER.