Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1883 — FASHIONS IN DRESS. [ARTICLE]

FASHIONS IN DRESS.

The Men. English tweed hats will be worn to match suits. The high-button style of drees is rapidly going out of fashion. Malacca or bamboo walking-canes should have a curious design for a top. Cuffs have square corners that meet when fastened by linked sleeve-buttons. The new standing collars are higher in front and cut away, and are called the Myron. Olive, grav and brown'are the fashionable colors worn by young men in business su.ts. The frock coat will be worn to some extent with a low roll to show the shirt-bosom. Gloves are almost universally worn on the etieet, for walking, for driving, and at church. Bilk handkerchiefs, worn in the breastpocket, are cardinal, blue, olive, mandarin yellow or polka dotted, with a wide hemstitched hem. Fob silk hose black is still preferred for dress, with colored clocks on the side or wrought in small designs on the front of the leir and instep. The Germanic turned-down collar is most comfortable, and has now more than an inch space open at the throat and widen further to the pointed ends. The stylish silk hat for a middle-aged or elderly gentleman has a crown inches high with a rolling brim inches wide The brtm has a light standing curve. Scotch homespun plaids, worsteds and, cassimeres of neat, small checks and mixed threads of color are used for the entire suit, coat, vest, and trousers worn by men during business hours. The shoes for men who prefer comfort to style have wider soles than those worn loot season, but those who wear closely-fitting trouser j that do not spring over tne ankle and make the feet conspicuous, wear wait-ing-shoes with Dointea toes and narrow soles, as these have the apparent effect of diminishing the size of the ieet The Women. Clasps on the collars and in the necks of dresses take the place of brooches and lacepins. The ibis, lotus and other Egyptian designs are features in spring goods of the finest grade. Coaching umbrellas come with short, club-like handles that look heavy but are really light. New raglans are given a bouffant polonaise effect in the back by the looping of the drapery. • Plaids in subdued colors are made for traveling-dresses or for the morning wear in the house. The costliest embroidered veiling robes are niarvels of open needle work. They cost #SO a pattern. Gold braid, gold cord, and gold effects in toillinery goods are a feature in spring hats and bonnets. The new bonnets, trimmed with upright rills of gathered lace, bows of ribbon with forked ends, and many small flowers, look V ery aspiring and defiant. New parasols of black satin, having one or two black Spanish lace flounces, are varied With single or double fringes of gold bullion between the lace falls. The trimmings of new spring wraps are sleek chenille f Inges, guipure and soutache laces, braids, passementeries, cords, tassels, and metal bucales-and slides. The latest importations of brocaded silks show Ottoman grounds with satin and plain bilk designs,flow ers,leaves, and conventional, mediaeval, and Oriental figures. Cashmebe figured stuffs, especially those With palm leaves, reman in favor for ele ganc spring wraps for the carriage, and With evening costume for the theater. The new silks end satins that come in broche patterns show a prevalence of Oriental harmonies of color, brightened with flame, orange, and mandarin yellow in vanishing effects. Embboidebed robes of French cambric, fine as batiste, and in all colors, including scarlet, have the embroideries done in old sampler cross-stitch, with colored Lnen threads in all the Oriental shades.