The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-26
LOVELY SPRING FABRICS.
THE NEW AND BEA UTIFUL DE
 SIGNS.

Spring Opening at -Desmond's s-
 Fair Sex ThrongtnE by Thousnnds-
 Wonderful Display of Millinery.
 The very atmosphere of Gamble X Desmond's store yesterday morning seemed to breath a welcome. The mil linery department preached color, warmth ard glow, and seemed to em- phasize the approach of the glorious Easter season. The hundreds who vis- lted it were most enthusiastic in their admiration of the beauties displayed
 Millinery is progressive, and in it's floral display it seems each year that art and nature become more akin. This is season of flowers; they are really tempting and appropriate. Color is rampant, Everything is Frenchy, of the periods of Louis XIV, Louis XIV, and Marie Antoinette, This is not alone true of hats, with their lace and nous seline and flowers, but of the gowns, with their long, clinging, slender skirts flaring below the knee.
 The stylish woman this summer is
 
 borders at all on the severe, the man. nish. the grlm1y tailored has been rele- gated, and in it's place is Frenchy fluff finess and undeniable femininity. Therefore the spring opening this year is thing of beauty.
 The unanimous verdict of all who came could be summed up in the words admiration and appreciation" All day long this store was crowded by the critical elite, the fashionable and the practical shoppers of New Haven and vicinity.
 Every inch of space is ablaze with spring millinery glory and the woman who could find nothing to interest her in all this color splendor to-day is minus the something in her makeup that brings to the normal woman a lot of pleasure.
 Hats-and where is the woman who doesn't want to know what the Gamble Desmond Co.'S edict is as regards the new hats? Through this enterprising firm nearly all the noted Parisian milli- ners speak, RebouX Roger, Esther Mayer, Carlier, Blum Lewis, Virot Pouganne and others, whose names are names to conjure with wherever there are women who love the hat beautiful. Aside, however from the foreign crea- tions are this firms own hats, some among which the reporter actually had the hardihood to think artistic and as beautiful as those that had a magic French name fastened in the crown.
 Women will have to get their hair down low on the nape of the neck to wear some of these exquisite things. This one of Pouyanne, for instance, the high rough made straw brims of which are suggestive of the walking hat. Its crown, all ot pale tea roses sweeps low, while a knot of black velvet ribbon, a touch of black lace finishes a charming hat.
 Innumerable hats were shown in prices from sS to s45 while those at $5 are unequalled for material and style, i for these are characterized by that in imitable style for which the firm of Gamble & Desmond is so famed. The | inexpensive hats as well as the French | importations, especially the dainty to- | ques and bonnets found many purchas- CTS. One of the most admired novelties l were the chrysanthemum braids
 The suit and cloak department was most complete. The tailor made gowns are revelation, with their tucks of lace, their Persian embroideries and | applique trimmings If women felt it | a duty (which few will after seeing the | beauties of the new tailor made gowns) l adopting the severe in style, they will { be obliged to wear walking skirts, and | even these have 8 frisky flare. The i Moire antiques or Moires are a revival | of a material once the rage, now de- prived of the severity that once char acterized their makeup, they are most tempting. Tn fact nearly all the black gowns have a touch of Moire some where and all the Moire gowns have touches of white with black embroid cry and applique, and all gowns flare at the bottom.
 The long silk coats black changeable and colored, loose sleeves daintily lined with white satin, or silk, with em- broideries in white black or white lace, are perfectly beautiful and genuinely and cost from 1925 to $1O0
 The waist department was one of the most inviting. There were More an- tique waists in all colors and styles, many of them, "The Gibson this and other fashionable styles were duplicat- ed in silks of every make, style and color, and so dainty and beautiful as to appeal to the most aesthetic tastes The wash waists are innumerable. The col DTS are attractive, although it will real y be white season" in shirt waists