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Show A BEWILDERING TASK. IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO KEEP POSTED ON SPRING FASHIONS. Olive Harper Writ of tho Great Variety la lire, Wrap and Other Spring Clouds That Will gojn Delight the Ladies La-dies Throughout the Land. Special Correopondenoe.1 Kew Yoiik, MarcU -It i almost enough to bewilder one to try and keep track of the new Rpring dresses, wraps and goods that will so soon be mado up into lovely garments. Every day brings out something new that is so much prettier pret-tier than tho last that it is no wonder that women have to spend half thoir time in shopping so as to know what they really do want. It has been a standing reproach to fashion writers that they will not lixk ,t or mention any material that does BATISTE AND PATEES 00WSS. not cost at least 3 a yard, and so thin 1 setter shall bo about the really pretty and iurablo goods that can be purchased at very moderate prices, I I give with this three cotton gowns. ! One is of indigo batiste, made just as it i would be if cf the richest gixids. The : waist is gathered at the middle of ths back and front, and a high collar sets up at the wearer's neck. The front is laid in four deep plaits and tho sidos fitted over the hips, while the fullness of the deini-train is held in fan plaiting. Such gowns can bo laundered, but they can also be worn a season without it by any reasonably neat person. The dressy gown on her admiring friend is of almond al-mond brown sateen, with pale pink flowers. The panel aud vest are of dark brown sateen. The stylo of making can bo judged by looking at the picture. To make a dress of this stylo it requires ton to eleven yards in all of sateen, percale or gitighum, for all of which it ia well j udapted. The pretty princesse gown is mado ot plain palo blue clmmbory, trimmed Bimply with three rows of narrow soutache sou-tache braid. It buttons from the shoulder shoul-der down, and has a closo row of buttons all the way down to tho bottom of tho Ekirb. This style is suitable only for young girls or very young matrons, and it could be reproduced In cashmere or any other material, and is particularly adapted to a tailor mado gown. One of the lovely now Freuch broadcloths would be beautiful mado in this style. They cost from $1.00 to $3 per yard, fifty-four inches wide. Five and a half yards of broadcloth would be sufficient for this model. ' 1 The India silks come next in cheap- j bops and beauty. They can be purchased : as low as fifty cents in good quality, and t'ey make very dressy gowns, requiring ery little trimming. The sharp littl bargain hunter can watch hor chances ol "bargain days" and "bankrupt" sales, j which latter have become very frequent i lately, aud cau often pick up lovely India ! silks and Bengalines at thirty-five cents 1 a yard even. The picture given will ( show a pretty stylo for such a gown, i Tho skirt is quite plain, witli wrinkled front draping. The waist and sleeves are plain, the only ornament being a fall of oriental lace. Tho wash surahs, made so popular last season, cost from 80 cents to $1 per yard, but they are certainly worth three times as much as China or India silk, besides being a yard wide. I m CHINA FAILLE AND ALMOND CLOTH COSTUMES. COS-TUMES. The fashionable oolor is a sort of light brown called ulmcnd, just the color of an almond shell. It combines or contrasts con-trasts with almost every color known, and is found in every material. A very handsome tailor mado suit of it I give here. The skirt is quite plain, with two deep box plaits in the back. The basque lias a pointed belt made of mordore velvet, vel-vet, and lapel shoulder caps which simulate simu-late a cape. There is a very narrow border of beaver fur Tip the opening of the waist, and a high collar, which can also be worn down if preferred. The secret of making a tailor gown is to have every seam pressed flat as fast as it is sewn, and the finish of every part done in the neatest possible way every corner exact and every line perfect. It Is quite possible for a neat Sewer, with the aid of the patterns now obtainable, to make a stylish tailor gown. Ouve Harper. |