Year: 1879

The small fichus of embroidered
black cashmere worn last spring are
again largely imported.


Fancy camel's hair will be worn for
spring suits in light tints thickly cover
ed with different designs.


ALI morning toilets for the street
should be short and very dark or black.
The materials may be vigogne, cash
mere, camel's hair, and all woolen
goods, but the trimmings may be OF silk.


Light summer silks, which will be
much employed for street suits, have
chinchilla stripes, or narrow clouded
chine stripes set close together on brown
cardinal, garnet, blue and other colored
grounds.


For travelling -cloaks single-breast-
ed listers are shown in the English
homespun cloths that are loosely woven
in small checks of yellow-brown shades
and in heather grays. The belt of these
is confined in the back, and is very wide.
Circular wraps of light gray cloth,
black, brown, and navy blue, are also
shown for travelling. They are made
with long pointed hood, and have Q
snowy clasp of oxidized silver at the
throat.


-Clinging dresses are going slowly
but surely out of fashion; tied-back
dresses have entirely become things OF
the past. They have recently earned
bad name from the fact that investiga-
ton has proved that many of the women
drowned at the wreck of the Princess
Alice owed their utter inability to help
themselves, or to sustain themselves
when help was given them, to the fact
of their being incumbered with the
tight clinging skirts, which held them
down.


-Dressy wraps for spring will be
mantles of Chuddah or plain camel's
hair trimmed with rich fringes. Black
mantles will be most used, though light
drab or beige-colored wraps will be con-
sidered more dressy. The shapes are very
similar to those of last season, with the
back fitted by three seams, and clinging
sides that drape the arm, and are fin
ished in square Hungarian fashion, in
stead of dropping in pointed wings like
Dolmans. These mentles are of me-
dunn length, covering the tournure and
hips, and are trimmed with one or with
three braided points down the back and
on the sides. A great deal of imitation
lace in French thread patterns will be
used for trimming these fine wool
wraps. Goats of soft light cloth will be
used for spring saeques and for cool
mornings out of town. Stitched edges
and snowy buttons will be the only
trimmings for these. Gray tweeds and
twilled cloths will be chosen for jackets.


I'm remodeling silk or WOODEN suits
of last 81 ason the short pointed revers
collar meeting at the top of the darts
will be much used. This will be made
of plain satin, or with moire stripes.
Another plan will be a striped satin col
lar that extends down each side of the
front to the end of the basque, as if out
lining vest. Large long-looped bows
that form jabot partly down each side
will be made of striped satin and used
on over-skirts. When the back drapery
is not sufficiently bouffant, a width of
the trimming material will be added on
one side, or else in the middle, and
punched up irregularly. A great deal
of lengthwise trimming will be used on
the front and sides of over-skirts. A
curtain over-skirt different from that in
our illustration has the front breadths
opening from the waist line, carried
away to the sides, and edged with fringe;
this Is handsome when made of plain
silk, while the front gore of the lower
skirt---which is shown its whole length
lis of striped moire.