Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-04-07
CHINESE FASHIONS.
TIE INTRODUCTION OF SOME NEW
MANcuunIA JEwELRY.
The Tunic. China Lace, nm" ""'
Novel Tint, Jnde-Grecn, Are inc
y..u,,s far women of War in the
Orient.
,corro.nonderce OF the DIspatch.)
orient.


NEW YORK, April i3.-When japan
undertook TO administer a licking "
china few American women felt any IN
terest in the fracas, and not one OF thern
susnected that this squabble In the East
WAS about TO affect their fashions iha'
:, has done so is plainly evident.
CHINA sUPERsEpES JAPAN.
To begin with we were tired 10 uea'i
of everything japanese. Fans ana para
soils and screens and lacquer haa pecoin'
. weariness. and the Kimono burden
The Japanese had dumped so much "as'e
unon Ms that even our large capacity
for purchasing trlvialities had been ex-
harsted The Chinese have never trou-
HE'D themselves to sell us anything out
tea. so what comes to us from there 10"
,s not merely manufactured TO cd'Ch Tue
eve. but are the real things tney nave
worn and used themselves. For the'e
has heen n terrific breaking mp OF every
thing I'm China since the war peBdh'
Though the Japanese have behaVed "on
derfully well. il is impossible lot an aiHy
TO occupy a country without pIoulbiOuo
LOT OF loot falling into its hands one way
or another. Families have Deeh s"eps
away or have fed from their homes anu
all their goods scattered TO the Iou,
winds Ruin and distress have forceu
others to sell their Injuries ana Tue apoi,
of this great revolution has been pouring
INTO Europe and America by the ship
load. ..,,,.. Ia.
paris. always ready for novelties has
seized with avidlty upon the new goods.
and what Paris uses ana wears Ne"
York wears and uses.
A NEW GARMENT FOR WOMEN.
one of the prettiest Of these new fancies
is the use Of the Chinese tunlc-that
loose. wlde-sleeve garment that fans TO
the knee as part OF morning or TEA
gown combined with the eternal ana
ubiquitous chiffon. The Princess de Sa-
gan has two Of these. one Is loose SIP
of white silk covered with white chiffon.
The sleeves are close-fitting to the wrist
and at the neck is a great frill Of lace held
I'm place with half dozen Turquoise pins.
over the whole is slipped tunic such
as Is worn by the great court ladies of the
Floverv Kingdom. This is OF pale-green
silk embroidered in blue flowers of that
curious shade of blue that comes only
from China; the embroidery so close that
the flowers give almost the impression or
shaded blue scales overlapping each other.
The edge is finished with narrow Dor
der OF black satin, and line or gold
thread, sand this negligee has a most ricn
and bizarre effect Of color The other
tea-gown has the silk and chiffon under
slip Of dull soft pink the tunic being
of black satin embroidered in gold. and
that clear shade of red that the Chinese
called dragons blood.
SEVEN ORIENTAL JEWELS.
The Jewels worn with it are OF the
beautiful parrot blue enamel on silver Tor
which Manchu jewellers are famous
There is one of the blue dragOn-fy pins in
the hair: a great earring turned into
brooch clasps the fluffy ruiheS at the
throat and at the belt hangs one OF the
chateIsines. OF which Chinese ladies are
so fond. including the moon-shaped per-
fume box, the flexible sacred fish, ana
tiny images Of the God Of the Heavens
and the God Of Happy Fortunes besides
the little invocation to good luck cut out
in gold which no Chinese woman Is ever
without, If she can possibly help II.
ODD TRINKETS AND COLoRS.
This Manchuria jewelry has already
appeared in New York. and has been
seized upon with avidity as a delightful
new addition to the rich wOmans Joual-
lerie re fsntasi-as the Parisians call the
ornaments which change with the FASH
ions. Frederic Viliers, the war CORE
sponGa nt, who has just returned from the
seat OF hostilities has brought a beautitul
collection Of bracelets, pins, buckles, ear
rings. hair ornaments. chatelains. lockets'
and rings Of the most delicate and fantas-
tic gold cut-wOrk, silver. silver-gllt. ana
blue and green enamels on silver and gold.
The earrings are far too big for Amerl-
can ears, but make rather splendid
brooches, and one very up-tQ-date woman
appeared at the first night Of The Ideal
Husband" in a wide skirt OF new black
MORE satin. a bodice of white chiffon and
lace. and a long-fronted Elton jacket OF
stem-green silk. with buttons made OF
old blue-enamel Manchu buttons. Her
bonnet was a knot Of black tulle drawn
through a blue Manchu belt-buckle, and
had an outstanding cluster Of tiny ostrich
tips. two green and one black.
Beside the dress and ornamenS the
Crise de chine, as the French fasion-pap RS
dub the new marat. shows itself In
squares Of heavy yellow Chinese lace that
serve as doiies under hngtr-bOwls, in
tho strips of sleeve embToideres that are
used 10 spread on the mantel-pieces, In
tn. sofa-cushions covered with spells Of
demolished TUNES. and the whole tunics-
masses OF rich. grotesque color-spread
about as draperies. Still another mani
festation is that the two fashionable new
tints are jade-green and Manchu blue
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