The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-03-20

are the parasols trimmed with frills of !
narrow satin ribbon.
new hat brim must be quoted II /
turns down on the hair at the back
with a graceful little quirk that goes
right to the susceptible feminine heart,
and the millners are showing Us how
the fiat Of this brim is meant to be
thickly plastered with howers-mixed
white and blue violets. for instance, since
that is a combination seen everywhere of
late, or mat of variegated sweet peas.
The milliners, without exception. are GO
ing in for picturesqueness of effect and
oddly in color combination, as follows
Pale green and sky blue ribbon adorn a
rich green straw hat, turned down at the
back, with clear yellow cowslips.
A pale blue hat receives q trying dec
Grafton OF flaming white popppies and sill
Yer gray silk. or mauve straw submits
to 4 garniture of deep orange taffeta and
palcSt pink carnations. This tale in the
telling sounds positively bloodthirsty, but
i'm demonstration the ColOrs flow together
with delicious harmony. Every wide hat
has a Louis XIV wreath on it of small
roSehudS or sweet peas, or variegated
daisies, the wreath not larger than the
circumference Of a dessert plate, and
then placed to fall half on the crown and
down upon the dropping feather-weighted
brim. In accordance with this Arcadian
tendency the decorated pins, which fasten
Fuchsias, wall flowers, and with their
deep green polished foliage. periwinkles
are among the blossoms that have come
into Towering since last week. and no
tiCeable arrival in the milliner's stock is
the hat with two distinct brims. One is
set on the crown a half inch above the
first, or brim proper. and il measures a
good deal less in circumference. Just
what is the mission of this double deck
CT il is a little hard to find out, save
that there is no notion more taking this
Spring than trimming straw with straw
and comforting the edges Of n hat with
shapes beyond the range of the most
unprincipled nightmare.
There is a positive fashion, grown up in
| the last few weeks, for chicken wings,
regular barnyard pinions, with which TO
| set off alpine and turban travelling
/ shapes. The humble dominicker and
! guinea hen. the Haunting red gamecock
and modest brown-clad Spring broiler
| wave long and triumphantly from many
| fine head ornaments, and honor is due to
! the women who have made the genuine
| chicken wings more fashionable than
aigrettes.
Which way is the skirt tending? To-
| ward expansion if we are to take seri-
| ously the new foundation petticoats made
| and sold to wear under our Spring suits.
| This petticoat is called an empress skirt,
! is not very full, composed of colored sat
| cen, ruffied scantily around the foot and
| literally boned from hem to waist. The
| bones are really pliable composition,
| diagonally along the sateen and meant 10
| distend the folds of the dress skirt which
| it supports. One or two Spring costumes
| have come over TO US with three reeds
| enCased in the back breadth, and every
| second woman wears a tuft of haircloth
I inside her placket-hole If all these de-
tails are straws, then the wind is setting
| in an ominous quarter.
| Tomorrow, however, can take care
| OF itself and today We are all chiefly
| enthralled with the best suggestions
| for making up ginghams and muslins,
| etc. An attractive new founce for
| cotton gown is made knee deep, and
| then at intervals of two inches on the
| fiounce are set narrow bias fittings.
Another interesting Bingham costume,
| in blue check, had its entire skirt
adorned with narrow folds of solid blue
| cotton, stitched down in lines running
| back from points described on the front
width. II is popular practice that,
| trimming figured cotton with tight,
| fiat folds of a solid color, and the same
idea is adapted to white muslin frocks.
| White muslin is a goods TO conjure
| with this season, especially if il is
| made up with black lace or baby rib
| bon in silk satin or velvet. A very
| chaste little costume noticed was made
| Of white lawn with a bell skirt having
| a narrow quilted ruffie along the foot,
| and another running from the right hip
| diagonaIly across the front width down
| to the foot and so out on the back
| breadth. The edges Of these two frills
| were finished with narrow black ribbon
and the waist partaking also of the
| decoration. A chic, cool and absurdly
| inexpensive little habit was the result.
What can be accomplished with black
| trimming shown
| in the sketch Of the plaid fouIard gown
| given this week. In the original white
| fOulard barred with broad blue stripes
! and freely punctuated with tiny black
| dots, was the material; the skirt made
| with a gored bottom edged with one
| row of inch-wide black velvet ribbon,
accompanied by rows OF baby width.
At the head Of the gored half of the
| skirt velvet ribbon, Of baby width, IS
| applied in an irregular, graceful pat
| tern, and slightly gathered to convey
| the proper effect. A CAMP OF white silk
| fills in the top of the pretty basque. a
| CAMP that is pissed, as the French say,
or. in plain English. shirred. over every
| line Of shirring ribbon runs, and fun
| toby rufiie bOurgeons out about the wear
| cr's ears.
The front Of the basque IS shirred and
trimmed as the CAMP, but the back, with
its ribbon-edged tails and the tiny friI
the waist from the back, is the distinct
| i've feature Of this study in Spring fash
ions. Attention must be called to the
| sleeves with their clusters Of narrow
| ribbon-edged frills. They are almost
the last novelty TO be reported. and are
highly becoming to a large or small
arm.
The figure that accompanies that dis.
playing the foulard costume shows one
Of the ways Of decorating an organdie.
bright blue meant for Spring garden
parties and Summer luncheons. It's whole
claim TO charm and beauty lies in the
| sarnishmcnt Of black valenciennes lace,
and more effective feasible, not to say
uneXtravagant, trimming could scarcely
be imagined.
il will interest the mothers of fami-
| lies, I'm which there are toddlers, to hear
| something Of those practical Summer
| garments, piquet coats. This season the
piquet has come to market in the pref
| test shades OF mauve. blue and rose,
that harmonic rarely with three-year-
| old complexions. The colors specified
are represented in the three baby wraps
| given in the picture. The rose-colored
coat IS trimmed with heavy maltese lace
| falling over pinked frills Of rose-colored
taffeta silk, and the mauve and blue
coats are embellished with the rough
| ecru German embroidery that washes
| excellently and wears as long as the
| piquet. Notable points in these childish
wraps are their white leather belts and
big silver-plated buttons.