Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-01-25

them, and 1t IS like breath of spring
days to be able to tell of something be-
longing to that season.
First let me say that princess dresses
and polonaises are to be in high style,
and very pretty they are too. The
polonaise is cut just like a princess
gown, but shorter in front, and this is
then lifted ON the hips, with deep plaits,
under buckles, straps or buttons, raising
it to quite high panniers, and leaving the
back breadths to fall straight down, but
on two or three 1 noticed that there was
slight looped effect in the back.
Probably there never was garment
designed SO admirably well calculated to
display trim figure as the polonaise,
and it should be matter for congratu-
lation that it is now possible to wear one.
But the step from polonaise to Dolly
Warden is short one, and vatican is
also to be expected to follow that. We
will be thankful for anything sent us, SO
it is not hoops, which the French are
about to try again to force upon us.
The most noticeable Of the new spring
fashions is that bonnets and hats are
made to come down over the ears, more
than ever like those of our grandmoth-
ers. One quaint bonnet is made Of yell
low 1vgirurn, flne anu neArDle, ana Unls IL
a regular cottage shape with long
sides. On the crown there are two rows
of narrow black velvet ribbon, drawn
down SO as to accentuate the shape. The
inside is faced with shell pink forentine,
/ nd on, "a 10 hn nf b
plumes, and two of them curl down in
side the edge Of the brim. There are
strings of narrow velvet ribbon, which
are to tie snugly under the chin. can
not tell you how cunning and quaint
this is. There was hat made of violet
and green straw, intermingled and WOW
en- into a fine, satiny surface. This had
an aureole brim and high peaked
crown, surmounted by black and purple
feathers and ribbon. Black velvet strings
start on top of the crown and are drawn
straight down to tie under the chin.
If we can judge of these pattern bon
nets and some funny little pancake hats,
we are of surety to be treated to the
choicest and daintiest of the headwear
can say they are not pretty. Let us
hope, however, that they are not the
precursors of the redoubtable coal scut-
tie bonnet. With this style of bonnet
the sleeves grow larger, and the 1880
fashion is quite as startling as before,
though, generally speaking, sleeves are
not so very large as they were. Still,
they are quite wide enough.
One of the new fads is to have wide
ties of silk edged with lace, or all Of lace,
tying in an immense bow under the chin,
Or falling in deep jabot nearly cover
ing the whole front of the dress. Some
of them when made of lace have dozens
Of little "stickpins" in rhinestone or
other imitation jewels set along to hold
the plaits in place One that attracted
my attention today had several tiny pins
of imitation emeralds, set to resemble a
clover leaf, and though the stones were
palpably cheap the effect was certainly
pretty. Fashion does not require them
to be real. Another tasty caprice was to
have corsage of two kinds Of silk, one
dark, with the light one as yoke, basque
frill and large puffed sleeves. The lighter
portion was dotted in regular pattern
with quite large garnet beads. The effect
was very novel and pretty. There are
many other ways Of utilizing she jewel
beads, chief among them being the sew
ing Of crystal or pearl beads on dancing
dresses.
To return to the question of spring.
We ora ui,rvryy, cox,oro1 cox,orIoz ~ n ,,o,-v
weave of wool resembling vicuna, soft,
but very glossy and silky. This is shown
In many very bright and rich colors,
besides in soft, shaded stripes of gray to
black or white. The new black goods of
this kind are exceptionally handsome and
will make up very well, besides being
suitable for the accordion plating,
which, we are now told, is to be rage
on all gowns that will permit it. The
Inew eudora cloth is the most perfect
black dress material ever produced, the
Priestley silk warp henriette included.
Inotice among the things that will not
be publicly shown until along in the
middle Of Lent a new cloaking for spring
wraps called Campbell tartan plaid
The outer surface is dark, smooth and
decorous, but it is reversible, and the
facing is of large plaid in tartan colors
These will be made up into empire capei
and York coats. The colors on the SUR
face are brown, green, blue or black
The same style of goods were given some
outlandish name last season, but they
did not appeal as strongly then as theJ
do now under their new title. Thest
goods In heavier quality are worn to 8
slight extent now.
| Among the colors expected to be mos
prominent next season will be brown
Some costumes will show several shades
Of that always genteel color. The pret
test of them all is the mordore. On,
very elegant model in brown had an un
derskirt Of seal brown velutina. Above
this was a cloth skirt, slightly lifted a
each side. Around the bottom of thil
skirt there was bias band of the sam,
edged with narrow braid of gold
There was a short redingote jacket of ,
sort of cedar brown, with a vest ant
high Worth collar Of tan cloth. Undel
the edge Of this short seal brown mil