Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-03-24

pink silk or satin skirt would look
well with roses shading from pale
pink to deep red, and the bodice be of
plated gold or silver braid. or of
green velvet or satin ribbon. Silk
stockings ard shoes should match the
dress; white, cream, or pink gloves.
FASHIONS IN FANS.
Fashions in fans do not appear to
vary much. They are still made of
drab or White ElaTabOut feathers, in
game, ornamerted with spangles and
in!aid with lace; also fans worked in
needlepoint. The most in vogue are
of black lobophCre feathers and emer-
aids spangled with gold; other with
bone handles. and made of pomen-
granate leaves and amarbout feathers,
spangled with ruby or blue, or with
gilt pearl handles made of lace.
SPRING HATS.
So far as can be judged at present.
the spring indications are for quiet,
rather neutral tints for round hats,
toques, and bonnets of fancy straw,
chip Dunstable and Milan braids,
leaving the milliner plenty of scope to
use the brilliant trimmings of shaded
flowers, velvet foliage, nets, feathers,
handsome ribbons, and divinity laces,
which are already adjoining the win
dows and shelves of all the large i'm
porting houses.
TAILOR-MADE COSTUMES.
With the first spring weather there
always comes a great wish to wear
light cloths, light not only in
weight, but in color, and there
Iare a great many dainty little
gowns turned out to wear just at this
season. Garish coloring is not in
good style, but the light tans and
grays and the light mixed chevoits,
all these look especially we'll, and this
| year the fancy is to use some white
| in the trimming as well as the white
at the throat-for a big white bow rs
| as necessary now to any thorough ap-
pearance as a smart hat or pretty
| Jacket. None Of these light gowns
are very heavily braided or trimmed;
there is only sufficient on them 70
! give some marked contrast in color
| ing. For instance, when black braid
| is used there will be only one band
| Of it outlining the skirt, the jacket,
and the cape or collar. When white
| is used with the black it is just the
merest line. and is generally put on,
as it were, to bind it. Even in these
| costumes the skirts are made long
enough to touch the ground-a most
unnecessary fashion, it would seem,
| for so-called street crowns. a smart
| frock of this description is made Of
! blue-gray cloth, the skirt Of medium
| width, trimmed with one band of
black braid put on a band Of white
cloth. The waist is like a long jacket,
coming halfway down the skirt. IT
| fits quite tight to the figure as far as
the waist-line, and the sleeves of the
coat are only full enough for it not to
be tight-ftting. At the throat the
waist opens with small revers far
enough to show chemisette and
white tie. There is cape that can
be worn with this costume that is
more like a collar than a cape, cut in
points, the points going down in
front, at the back, and over the
! sleeves. Down the front Of the waist
| is rather a wide band of the white
cloth, On which are two rows of the
black braid, and the same trimming
| is put around the edge of the cape
! Harper's Bazaar.
COMPANY" ROOM.
A young housekeeper in planning
her furnishings should regard the
uses Of her company room before she