Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1882 — FOB THE LADIES. [ARTICLE]

FOB THE LADIES.

Sicilienne ie much used for spring dresses. ** - Braiding and fringe increases in popularity. t Terra Cotta gloves are among the novelties. - In some quarters dolly vardens are revived. The new bustle resembles a large pin cushion. Patridge feathers are used to cover parasols. “Patience” pokes are worn by young ladies. White muslin dresses are embroidered all over. English customes of cloth have swallow-tail coats. g Nacille is the name of the hew color like twine. Bed- parasols are now sometimes made of velvet. ■ Veronese green is an artistic shade for spring dresses. Alpaca or bectine dresses are imported from London. Smooth English cloths are more stylish than cheviots. Braiding on jacketsfbids fair to become very common. j . Watering-place dresses for day and evening are snort. Jersey gloves of black silk will be worn with spring suits. Copied cravat bows have superceded those of white mull Dark colons are preferred to .whit# for children’s dresses. Ostrich feathers droop over the front edge of barge straw hats. The flat’ round Langtry hat has been from London. ; Soldier &lue is the popular shade for cloth jackets and suits. Noon and three P. M. are the fashionable hours for day weddings. Worth uses striped and' Changable silks in his richest drpssesl f The .ssthethes do not permit the, use of starch or artificial flowers. Persian cloth mantles trimmed with chenille fringe are vqjry fashionable. Sheila cloth is fife skt<9«£ihigh novelty tor portieres and heavy curtains. Puffs of rushes are more stylish than plaitings for edging dreSs-skirtS. American Easter cards this season excel those brought from England. Chenile- spotted, silvered and shaded tulles appear among ball dress fabrics. i - . • > ' ■> ■' •'

Condolence cards and birth announcement cards are novelties In stationery. Embroidery appears on children’s suits, whether of silk, wool or wash goods. Flannel* dresses for seaside and mountains are of soldier bine, or mus-tard-color. Pineapple cloth fabrics are imported by Oriental merchants for ladies’ dresses. Amber-colored celluloid eye glasses for ladies use are among the latest novelties for ladies. Cadet-blue flannel, trimmed with many rows of braid’will be a favorite mountain dress this summer. A silver fly with wings of Rhyne crystal and ruby eyes, on a golden leaf, is a It te design in hairpins. Niola de Brahmine, a kind of nun’s cloth, is very popular combined with foulard silk, delicately embroidered. Grenadine lace for trimming with many rows of braid, will be a favorite mountain dress this summer. Miss Anna Whitney is soon to uncover the model of.hercolossal statue of Parriet Martineau, which is to be put in bronze. Old-style checked ginghams in dainty shades of pink and blue, but vastly improved in the weaving, have returned to popularity. A dozen of the old “masters” live again in new spring round hats and Sirden party chapeaux, Sir Peter ely and Vandyke taking the lead. Shirred poke bonnets with silverbeaded tulle and blush rose?,are worn byaound, rosy-faced young ladies. Boots laced up the front are coming into fashion for the promenade. They are in kid or morocco’ faced and finished with patent leather. Long silver pins, with round or Sear shaped silver heads or heads of Ihine crystal,are used to fasten down the plaits an d cascades of lace jabots. The balayeuse of black or white lace -will again adorn summer customes. Those. howe\ er, made of bright-col-ored silk or satin are utterly out of fashion. Large dots, or circles, of circumference greater than a trade dollar, appear in dark or light colors on Contrasting grounds, In some of the finest light cheviots. Cream-white cotton grenadine is made up over satine and trimmed with flowers cut ottt of cretonne for summer dress. A bonnet, fan and parasol are made to. match these. Miss Harriet Staunton, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Staunton, has returned after a two years’ absence id Europe, and Is engag<4 in literary work at her home in Tenaffy, N. J. Irish batiste in soft pale shades of color, as sky blue’ lilac, shHmp pink oream, ivory, fawn and corn-color.