The Globe-republican., 1894-01-05

ten-about skirts of five to seven yards
in width have ceased to be the fashion.
To he quite exact. they have never
been the fashion. and practically never
existed. Regarding skirt trimmings,
although the graduating decorations
extending up on the skirt are still in
vogue, the majority of spring gowns
will show a low skirt trimming, and
this will be more especially the ease
with handsome dress toilets elaborate
lv decorated as to bodice; and while
many of the new corsages are round,
there appears to be renewed tendency
to point the corsage somewhat, which
is OF advantage to all but slender
women. This may reduce the number
of folded belts. girdles and directoire
scarf effects which are as yet at the
height of their popularity, being espe-
cially becoming to slim figures. Sleeves
continue to fall away from the shout
ders. dropping toward the elbow where
they meet the close forearm, or stop
short altogether. if the sleeves are to
be half long. The rounded. half-open
necks of evening toilets are rivaled by
the pompadour shapes the trimming OF
which holds ON each side the epaulettes
that fall above the sleeve pufs or the
circular ungathered shoulder cap.
There are shown among spring samples
many pretty all-wool repped fabrics
less expensive than the French wool
bengaline and tricots of the winter.
that will make stylish and really ele-
CANT costumes The greens, golden
and SilvoP hines
in these materials are particularly at
tractive; and for gay house dresses are
handsome dyes in biege, beet root red,
old rose and Persian violet These soft
reps are forty inches wide and cost
seventy Ave cents yard.
Pretty costume capes" will COM
plete many of the Easter and post
Easter gowns of silk, wool and silk and
wool mixtures and although the cape
NAV match the gown in color, it may
| often happen that it is of different
and lighter fabric for example, cos
! tune cape of black watered silk with
| jet drop trimmings may have collar
cite Of black silk muslin thickly gath
cred, and edged with narrow ecru lace
forming a round cape at the back, and
descending in cascades to the bottom OF
| the front. A simpler costume cape Is
made of marquise brown repped wool,
soft and silky as bengaline, and match
ing the gown in kind. The cape IS
composed of a circular hOunce gath
cred to a round welLfitted yoke The
woke and standing Medici collar are
covered with fat bise or ecru guipure,
and the yoke is framed in a ruche OF
No. ribbon. A wider ribbon IS twined
about the lower edge of the collar
and formed into a bow at the
back. Panels, overskirts, slight dra'
peries and triple skirts on bell
shaped foundations, all appear on new
costumes from Paris. Blue serge and
sacking dresses with triple skirts have
black moire shirt waists with full
sleeves of blue and good-sized triple
costume cape of the wool goods to bt
added for the street The edges OF
both crane and Aounces have five rows
of machine stitching as q finish, anG
the scape has a box-plaited ruche Of
black MORE ribbon around the neck.
The princess May" corsage will bt
q popular spring model on gown
either simple or elaborate. The direc
toire ends on many of these corsage.
are heightened to reach the skirt hen
after they are knotted Bretelles re
appear on fresh gowns and toilets
They are not likely to be abandoned
very soon, as, whether gathered. plait
ed. notched or plain, they impart th'
approved dropping effect and give Al
appearance of breadth to the shout
ders and slenderness to the waist.
~ KATE DUNLAP