Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1882 — FASHION NOTES. [ARTICLE]

FASHION NOTES.

New ulsters art loose. Moire is used for parasols. Spring jackets are very plain. Curtain overskirts are revived. Shirred tabliers are unpopular. Cotton satteens rival those of silk. Ficelle, or twine lace, is a novelty. Bishop’s sleeves are on new wraps. The latest fichus are long and narrow. < The velvet' dog-collar remains in favor. Tne coronet bonnet is already popular. I Pearl buttons are on stylish woo dresses. Muslin embroidery trims cashmere dresses. Polonaises have taken a fresh lease of favor. - Bengaline dresses are worn in light mourning. A shirred puff finishes the neck of April dresses. Paniers in lengthwise pleats are called valances. India pongees are sold for $9 for a dress pattern. Spanish lace over satin is used for spring mantles. Pompons of many colors appear on Easter bonnets.

Embroidered balayeuses are preferred to those of lace. India shawles are made into mantles without being cut. Japanese sleeves are on the new silk and satin wraps. Pale pink roses as large as peonies are sola for $2 each. Satin foulard and chene silks make watering-place costumes. Elder, sycamore and licneh green are stylish spring shades. A big pouf bow with wide ends, trims the back of new mantles. LacejrfSd passementeries have taken the phfee of fur trimmings. merveilleux dresses have flounces of cream mull embroidery. American Easter cards this season excel those brought from England. Long undraped redingotes appear beside bunched up Watteau polonaises. “flats’’ and shepherdess straw hats will be worn by little girls this season.

Condolence cards and birth announcement cards* are novelties in stationery. Last year’s dresses need only Slight changes of drapery to make them stylish. Pineapple cloth fabrics are imported by Oriental merchants for ladies’ dresses. Handsome evening dresses are of fine white wool embroidered in silver threads. $ The Velasquez hat, with Spanish lace drapery, is the largest size offered for the spring. Plain skirts with trimmed polonaises will soon rival trimmed skirts with plain basques. Imported dresses have transparensleeves made of Venetian, Honiton or Spanish laces. Terra cotta red with blue, and garnet with gray, are fashionable contrasts for wool dresses. New mantel lambrequins are of colored plush trimmed with chenille fringe of the same shade. Amber colored celluloid eye-glasses for ladies’ use are among the latest novelties of the season.

Stylish contrasts for bonnets are Holbein green with pale blue, celadon with rose, opal with olive, and salmonpink with gray-blue. Parisian dresses during Lent are of Carmelite serge with a train looped by a cord and tassel for the street and left hanging in the house. Spring fans are of various designs. Some are of lace and flowers, others are hand-painted on satin while others are made entirely of feathers. Irish lace trimmed with clusters of shamrock leaves and forget-me-nots was the garniture of the green velvet dress worn by the Princess of Wales at the Queen’s last drawing-room. A black velvet dress seen at a banquet recently, was cut with a snake trail, over which pink and wnite japonicas worked in silk floss were scattered. The front was disposed in dice shirriugs visible through sprays of shrimp pink feathers. The flukes were overlapped and concealed by benches of fine gold and silver hair threads.

New developments of costume show an extravagant amount of trimmings of the dress material, and in many instances a simulated overdress is chosen. Basques are cut with coat backs shorter than formerly and V shaped over the belt; slender figures appear toadvantage witli the skirt cleft at the back and coming but two inches below the waist. Regarding gloves for fleecy dresses there is cause for great rejoicing. The immaculate white and dainty tints are no longer obligatory. Provided with half a-dbzhn pair of ecru, twelve button, a lady or the salon is equipped for a dozen times. A superfine brand of chamois with long stocking wrist, is studiously selected from the grand right and left.