Omaha daily bee., 1897-03-14
Fashion Notes,

Sleeves are, if anything, are growing a
little tighter all the time.
Smart little jacket bodlces and boleros
are as popular as if this was the initial sea-
son Of their vogue.
Some of the new untrimmed hats of very
openwork straw look far more like fancy
work baskets than like any sort of cover
| ing or protection for a woman's head.
Red in various tones and semi-tones will
| prevail during the entire spring season
among many dress fabrics, fancy jackets,
trimmings and in fashionable millinery.
Very rich and beautiful ribbons, in plain
and fancy patterns and coIorings, appear
upon some Of the richest and most beautiful
Partisan models now exhibited by leading
city houses.
In Paris, wide oddly plaided and Pompa-
dour ribbons are In great use. White and
violet and white and vivid green plaids are
used on silk, liberty satin, organdie. or chal-
lie gowns, in colors to match.
There is no limit to the variety Of bodice
decoration, but among the leading modes are
srrplice effects, many of the folded corsages
ending in graceful scarf ends that are fin
ished with lace and insertion when OF deli
cate textiles.
Ivory white. cream, butter olored and
black accordion-pleated chiffon or crepe lisse
frills will be introduced as a trimming on
dressy hat and bonnet models for Easter
time and thereafter. Some of the shapes
are literally covered with the pleatings, not
a few Of which are lace-edged, this border
extending beyond the brim and proving most
becoming to the wearer.
Masses Of color-a small conservatory OF
pink, green, red, blue, bronze. violet, yellow
in close conjunction, are everyday sights,
and though occasionally the crudity developed
is startling, the commingling, as a rule, is
achieved in a manner that, though it may
surprise. certainly cannot be said to offend
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with regard to fashionable millinery.
Many of the elegant dress toilets Of fig
ured India gauze, tulle, or French organdie,
made up over taffeta or watered silk, have
the skirt arranged in a cIescendo and di-
minuendo Spanish founce that varies from
one-half to three-quarters Of a yard in depth,
its greatest depth being on each side OF the
skirt. The LOUNGES set OH in very fine shlr-
rings, with a small, full frill at the top.
Some of the new French millinery show
very oddly shaped hats formed OF gllt-straw
tulle and green, violet, or brilliant red Milan
braid. Light, airy tulles will be greatly
favored on Easter hats as we'll as for models
for the entire summer, and the most suit
able and satisfactory qualities are the tulle
laces, with applique patterns, which are
well adapted for the effects now required by
fashion.
The uses OF ribbon his season are mani
fold, and there Is hardly a dressy toilet
without some touch of ribbon on the bodice
at least. No matter what %shirring, p~leating,
cording, milliners' fold, lace, or passemen-
terie are used elsewhere on the gown, gath
cred girdles, braces, %bow-knots, plastrous,
blouse effects, bolero fronts, stripes, ruches,
inserted puffs, and bands-all these and far
more does ribbon supply.
Among the new spring goods are stylish
Cathcart cheviots, s!lk-thread, all-wool Eng
lish tweeds In various rich color schemes; a
very pretty exhibit OF pin-checked silk and
uynol fnhrira in haautifI1 rnIor nnivturaa.
French and English mohairs in many new
weave5 and colorings; rough-inished boucles,
soft and silky to the touch; a special line of
Caniche cloths and another Of new stylish
color mixtures in silk and wool Tartans in
never before introduced.
There is hardly a textile among sum
mer fabrics that is as tempting to a woman
as a sheer. dainty figured and tinted French
Their silk Innings, costing very
much more than the gown itself, have In past
times been the great objection to their more
general wear; but now we have SO many
pretty and effective duplicates for taffeta or
surah In the watered percalines, silk-fn-
ished surahlines, etc., dyed in all the deli
cate summer tints, that using these, and
with the additions of simple ribbon garni-
lures, one OF the most charming and be-
coming styles for summer gowns is thus
obtained at a very small expense.
1t will be acceptable news to many who
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yellow lace straws and other fancy braids
SO popular two years ago are revived among
the other more startling modes for the dress
season following Easter. Trimmed with black
lace and tulle, or velvet ribbon and rich
bisc lace, they are seen at their best. but
milliners have now an irrepressible craze
for color, mixed color of the most heteroge-
neous description, and are not at all con-
tent with the effective and elegant simple
ity OF a yellow straw, with its fine contrast
ing garniture Of black, with a handsome
color-note in the way OF a deep damask rose
cluster or a delicate spray of trailing blooms.
Feminine Notes.
Miss Knight of London has been APP
pointed professor OF anatomy and pathology
in the Lhudilna Medical school. India.
Miss Alice Jacob has been awarded three
bronze medals by the Dublin Metropolitan
School OF Art for her exquisite lace designs.
She has also won two national book prizes.
One OF tho memorials to Harriet Beecher
Stowe will undoubtedly be In the form of