The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06
FOR FEMININE READERS
SOME INDICATIONS OF WHAT THE
COMING FASHIONS WILL BE.
Sage Advice to Girls from an Experi-
characterization Menu.

AS is usual at this approaching spring
season, felt hats are brought out and the
French models this year are as fine and
soft as velvet, especially those i'll white,
cream, and pale colors. of pink, gray, and
fawn for evening wear, says writer in the
New York Post. These hats are shaped in
numerous ways, some most becoming
others less so. They are chiefly trimmed
with velvet and feathers, with sometimes
additions of handsome ribbons with Rhine
stone buckles in the center of the loops.
With varying fashions in millinery, the ar
rangement OF the hair undergoes certain
changes. A soft, wavy coil with d few curls
in the center or a short airy cluster and
a. compactly braided roll III the nape of the
neck, are the fancy of the moment in Paris,
the latter style being selected when the
broad low-crowned Deyonshire hat is worn,
with full ostrich plumes that droop from
the brim which is rather short at the back.
Fashion here is inclining greatly to the use
of the Marie Antoinette roll covered with
hair the shade of ones own tresses, which
when adjusted, give the wearer the appear
ance of owning an excessive wealth of
'woman's browning glory
One thing pointing to a new lease of life
for the blouse bodice is, that this style ia
vors the fancy for what is known as slash
ing-an effect much employed by both
ladies' tailors and dressmakers. A hand
some model just completed-malxinS one of
half dozen gowns included i'll a very
pretty trosseau--is of soft fawn-colored
cloth lined with green and gold shot taffeta.
The blouse bodice is slashed from the waist
upwards for some distance, perhaps nihs
inches, and reveals a green satin bodice be-
meath. This is striped horizontally with mar
row gold braid. The blouse is cut out rather
low and rounding in the neck, with a
guimpe of the braid-striped satin showing
above. The close sleeves made with a full
short puff at the top are also slaShed to
show satin interstices. Judiciously carried
out this now familiar form or decoration
proves very effective, and, strange TO say,
has never become sufficiently popular 10
become hackneyed. Inch wide bands OF
brown fur were used to outline the edges
where slashingS were made on the gown
just described.
Sashes are to lose none of their popular
ity for months to come, as large invoices
of the most beautiful ribbons Of medium
width are already in the importers hands.
They consist of satin-bordered corded-silk
patterns, stylish Roman and Persian
stripes with deep fringes at the ends, shep-
herds check weaves banded with satin in
one of the colorS of the check, frosted and
shot silk sashes, plain or woven with tiny
flowers; also handsome Watered varieties
IN black, white and colors
More high-necked dinner gowns have been
worn this winter than for many seasons
past, and even for very grand dinners and
for debutantes the half-ow bodice is fin
ished with a guimpe Russo of transparent
textile laid in shirrings, pleats, or tucks.
The newest skirts on evening toilets are
very light and supple, being merely silk
lined and not at all Stiffened with interim
ing The majority of the models lately made
in this city, or received from abroad are
mounted on an underskirt of silk or att.
each skirt made separately. but join ! to
slightly narrower than the dress skirt prop
err The dart seams on some of the new
princess dresses extend to the very edge
of the skirt hem and these are often hid
den their entire length by line of gimp,
a design in braidwork, or a machine
stitched band, decorated with tiny tailor
buttons.