The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-05-15
SPRING FASHIONS.
What the Faster Sunday Display In New
York Revealed.

York Revealed.
A composite photograph Of the mems
attire seen on Fifth avenue, New York,
on Easter Sunday would show great
preponderance of the frOck coat with
an average length reaching just below
the knees, being slight modification
of last years length. Black or Oxford
mixtures of dark gray were mostly seen,
the materials varying from the rough
est to the smoothest of soft, fine cloths
Gray was the prevailing color in trou-
sers, quiet stripes being favorite pat
tern. The silk hat of the present crop
is less broad in the brim and less bell
crowned than last year, and in general
the tone of mems dress throughout is
growing more conservative. Getaway
coats, of which many were to be seen,
are not as long in the tails this gear
and are less rakish in cut.
In the matter of scarfs, the bow tie
sion worn with the frock coat, and the
ever popular four-in-hand of dead black
or white held it's own
One noticeable feature was the alb
sence of lapel flowers as compared with
last year. Almost every man who show
ed himself on Fifth avenue last Easter
wore some kind Of flower in his coat,
and probably half of these flowers wero
white. This year not one-fourth OF the
men wore any flowers, and those who
did wore small bunch of violets. The
women, too, were for the most part
chary of floral adornme1 / in comparison
with former years, and the display OF
outdoor plants along the avenue was
less than usual. 1t was not floral
Easter
Reckoning back for half a dozen
years, the veteran wearer of the season
bonnet could not call to mind anything
quite SO satisfactory for variety and
splendor as this years dress parade.
Perhaps the superior quality of weather
provided had good deal to do with this
flatteringly prejudiced view of the case.
1t enabled every one to display her fla
cry to special advantage and made only
the wearing of the lightest wraps neces-
sary.
Wee bits of capes were all the church
goers pretended to, SO short as to escape
the elbows by four inches, SO deeply
gored and so frilly with ribbons and
ruchings as to resemble more nearly
than ever the big ruffs of bygone times.
Now these scraps of capes, the wide
skirts, elaborate bodices and fearless
ness in the use of dazzling color are all
the points, says the veteran fashion OBJ
server, that make our Easter of 1895
distinct from those that have preceded
it.
Memory indeed runneth not back to
the time when conservative New York
women have so lent themselves to the
fascination of glorious tintings and
shadings. It seems significant that this
effect is graduated from the waist line
up, for all the skirts noticed were dark
and plain, qlite untrimmed and good
5 % yards around.
The bodices had greedily usurped all
the decoration, and the hats at first Gp-
peared to be frantic impressionist stud
les from the milliner's standpoint. They
were no bigger than a child's hand, and
honored by the title of bonnets, o.
they were round brims Of rough straw
and looked as though they had passed
through a blizzard of roses that heaped
ur, in cones, tufts and clumps or spread
into wreaths wherever they fell, along
With little drifts OF lace and flights Of
birds.
No two rcscs ever showed the same
color on the loose woven straw frames
that in turn flashed in all whimsical
shades from pale lemon and rose to
match the rough skin of burnt al
mond or well parched peanut. Some
times the straw crown was lifted out
and replaced with lace, and tde roses
varied with circle of jutting wings.
The little bonnets showed the same
fearless disregard for the old rule of
matching and harmonizing themselves
or pretending TO have any connection
whatever with tHoi Tner's gloves or
bodice New Y
lady at Toole' IS very SICK
with bilious collie .. Flsler.
prominent merch own, gave
her bottln ,f ms Cole,
Cholera and ~ nedy. He
says she well utes alter