Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1882 — FASHION’S FANCIES. [ARTICLE]

FASHION’S FANCIES.

Eglantine pink is a lovely shade Satinelle is the latest name for satin Gold lace makes an exquisite garniture. Fans of white moire are fashionable here. Panniers are more bouffant than formerly. Slate blue appears among new orsimported dresses have long waists and are bouffant. New neck lingerie is very elaborate and voluminous. Ruches made of chenille are exceedingly stylish. Shirred white Surah chemisettes are in new dresses. Embroidered borders are used on new fabrics for dresses. _ A return to the great popularity of polka dots is imminent, Black cloth suits, with lynx borders, will be worn during Lent. Foulards will supersede striped and checked summer silks. Large buttotts on the back of coats mark them as old fashioned. Evening dresses are trimmed with embroidered ruffles and tabliers. Dotted Spanish lace chemizettes are made in Pompadour squares. Feather hats and bonnets are moribund. Paris has condemned them. American pearls are cut in grotesque designs for gentlemen’s scarf-pins Alsation peasant hats will continue in favor for the spring and summer. Galloons and plaids will trim many spring costumes and spring jackets. Cloth and cheviot costumes are rarely made of two materials combined. Garnet Scotch ginghams, checked with blue, make pretty summer dresses. Glove kid, with patent-leather foxing, is the fashionable shoe for the street. Plush dresses will be very popular for promenade costumes for early spring wear. The new organdie muslins are woven in wide plaid bars and stripes of solid color.

Small boys are occasionally seen wearing English pleated blouses and knee breeches. High Elizabethan collars closely covered with pearls, are now seen on handsome dresses. Spanish lace has a new rival, that bids fair to almost eclipse it. It is an embroidered silk lace. Crushed rosas without leaves are massed as side panels or borders on tulle dresses. _ t > Fichus of black camel’s hair or of the dress material will be worn in the spring. Ribbed velvet and corderoy velveteen jackets are the fancy of the passing momentMoresque and Oriental laces rival in poqularity the Spanish,Barcelona and Burauo. Low English heels are now used on ladies walking shoes, a srreat change for the better. For full evening dress there are bands of gold or silver or strings of pearls worn in the hair. Copper red is a favored tint in new goods of all kinds, including the new upholstering stuffs. Spanish and Oriental laces will be used for trimming nuns veiling when worn in the evening. Feathers will be as popular next season as they are at present, but flowers will be associated ipth them. Butterfly-wing poufs in the back, formed by the scarf employed for the tablier and hip draperies are much worn.

Basques are shorter in tne skirt and are frequently pointed in front and drawn up in the back to form the pouf Morning dresses for unceremonious visits are made of black faille or black cashemire des Cevennes Nuns’ veiling is equally becoming to old and young women. It is the very stuff for children’s dresses Many of the new grounds in the new sateeus are of shrimp pink, shell pink cream, pearl shades, and all of the dark colors The hair is worn low on the brow, either in a curly fringe or waved. Behind it droops in the nape of the neck in a coil, in loops or braids. One of Mrs. Senator Logan’s costumes is of peacock blue velvet overdress, and a pale blue underdress, garnished with the finest point lace. Among new pongees the plain white goods, striped horizontally, with hair lines in lace effects, are the most unique and novel., Some authorities in matters of dress say that kilted skirts are going out of vogue, others announce that they will be more worn than ever. Costumes for street wear should be of woolen material, one kind only, with which a felt hat or bonnet, simply trimmed, with a clean jacket may be worn. In Paris skirts are frequently seen of which the only drapery is a broad sash, tied around the bottom of the waist and looped back on the tournure to form tne pouf,