Year: 1874

| Velvet pockets ON the outside OF street
dresses are very fashionable, stylish, and
unique.


They are wearing the buckles that used
to be worn. at the back rs n fastening for
the necklace now.


The spring bonnet will be very large
and will turn up on one side and down
on the other, something in the cavalry
style.


Napoleon blue, green, brown, and pur-
| ple win be some Of the fashionable colOrs
| i'm spring goods. OF green there are twen-
| ty different shades.


! Nowadays all the trimming on street
dresses appears to be concentrated ON the
front breadths. Black silk, velvet, and
beads is the handsomest and most genteel
combination.


COlOred gold is revived this season in
sets of iewelry and i'm settings. Some Of
the sets are very massive and very quaint.
| The shade of this cOlored gold is dark
red.
GRAY and brown are to be the flyorite
cOlOrs for dresses this next season. Blue
will be universal for children, while green
as an evening dress will be worn.
Sfawls are the eyer-eovenient wraps for
general wear all the year round. Otto
mans i'm dark cOlors and black embroider-
ed ones are most admired for the new sea-
son. SOlid-colored shawls in Llama wool
are seen.


teno cloth will be worn this season in
solid cO1ors. Street ClOaks will be made
of it. Norwich pOplins will be pretty
goods for suits for shopping or visiting
purposes. Sicilienne cloth will likewise
do service for dress fabrics.


Wrea,hs are again TO be worn in the
hair. They are to go over the front of the
head, and droOp over the face, if becOm-
ing, and then fall in spray down the
neck behind. To those who dislike flow
efs OH the head, finger putfs may be sub
stituted.


Street dresses are now lined on the bot
tom with black leather, which preserves
the silk, prevents the skirt from turning
up, and also prevents the material being
cut. This is a French idea, we believe,
and certainly good and sensible one.
The leather comes prepared especially tor
the purpose.


Black silk is the standard material for the
spring. As there is nothing but delalne
and alpacas to select in soft fabrics, silks
will necessarily be demanded for suits for
March and April. Good quality of silk is
sold for 81 a ward, and as the material is
good the trimming Is not absolutely re-
quired to be profuse.


Married ladies now have their husbands,
in addition to their own name on their Wis
iting cards. a custom of long standing
abroad. The fashionable card just now is
almost square, the engraving being in old
English and otherwise plain. Some ladies
are trying to introduce something new in
the matter of turning down corners, but
thus far they have only succeeded in con-
fIsing their friends.


Some wOuld-be conspicuous and fash
iOnable demOiselleS are wearing the hair in
a terrible mass of friZZes and minute curls
on the forehead and on either side of the
face. 1t is neither pretty nor becoming,
and suggestive only of carelessness and
mtidy habits. Perhaps it is that the ma
jOrity of female babies are born with low
foreheads.


A novelty in the mode of finishing off
dresses is shown in recent impOrtatiOns.
Instead of having the seams of dresses on
the wrong side of the garment they are put
on the outside in both the waist and the
skirt. and the edges of the seams are
bound with lutestring ribbon. These seams
and bindings form a trimming within them
selves.


Silk hosiery Will be adopted the coming
summer by ladies very generally, but its
expense will deter many from wearing
what would otherwise be satisfactory adj
ditiOn to their toilet. A substitute for silk
will be the cheaper raw silk, and the old
time clock stockings. These latter in Isle
thread are in great variety of designs, and
are very fine in some instances.


Buttons will occupy an enviable place in
the makeup of the new spring goods.
They are of tortOise-shell, steel, pearl, GRO
chet and jet. Heavy dim-hued metal but
tons will not be as popular on spring as
they have been on winter dresses. In size
they will be according to the taste of the
wearer, either large or small. or in medium
sizes.


Ladies will remember that watches are
worn suspended from the waist now.
While the advertisement is good one for
thieves and pickpOckets, it must neverthe-
less be observed, for the DEGREES of fashion
are absolute, and it is thought by many
better to lose a watch in the cause than to
disobey the flats of the superior goddess.
Many who do not value time sufficiently to
carry watch use lOcket as a gO-between,
and thus save their money and obey the
mandate