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For The Ladies--new Spring Styles

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
March
Year
1875
Copyright
Public Domain
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[i-rom tüe JSow ïors eun.J Judging írom the importations up to i this time we are to liavo a decided change ! from sacques and jaekets to round capes and loóse mantillas for spring wraps. No doubt walking jaekets will be worn, but the ivoman of faslnon will adopt thc round cape or Üie abbee mantilla. Tilia abbee is a queer little wrap, with a full pleated back, reaohing just a little below the waist. The íronts are long, plain, and square. It requires a very stylish ñgure and graceful person to wear this garment. Both the round capes and mantillas are trimmed with jet fringes, or with graduatod rows of Hercules braid, seeded with jet on each side. Tiie plain braids are preferred by many leaders in the world of fasliion and ladies of good taste. Sicilienno silk, a soft repped or corded fabric, is the favorite material; but cashmere and other light all-wool fabrics are also used in their manufacture. The linings are of soft Marcelline silk; sometimes of flannel, with facings of farmer's satin. Lace and ostrich feathera, and rook feather trimmings aro used to a limitad extènt also on theso spring wraps. It is said that in Paris many of the most elegant dresses are being made without any flounces or pleatings on the i skirt, many clustered rows of graduatod braid forming the only gamitares. The edges of the braid, are, however, j quontly seeded with jet. This beadod braid is brought out in large quantities for spring trimmings, but importers and j dealers all agree that the rage for jet will be over in another seasou. Still, many of the new importations of fabrics for spring costumes, black silks, cashmeres, : and grenadines, are wrought and I broidered in line jet. The black granadineg aro displajed in suits, with the cuirass apron, and flotmees richly embroidered with jet. Other suits I bands of jet ombroidery, to be introduced diagonally or lengthwiso betwëen pttffá of grenadine in tho apron, the sleeves, and corsage. Lace and jet beaded fringes aro used for trimming them. Diagonal trimmings on the long aproas, and diagonally arranged apröns are also noticed arnong the new suits. The other night, as a Detroit father stt with-Tiis feiit on the ooal-stove, he picked up one of his boy's boots and remarked : ' ' This pair of boots seoms to stand J ohn twice as . " At this pomt a tobacco-box, full of the weed, feil out ; oi the boot, and it wasn't over live minutes bef ore sounds of the press-board striking against a boy in the uight wei-e heard over the neighborliood, mingled with the wafting explanation : " Oh ! , dad ! thafc 'ere box must have fallen down my boot-leg while I was in a tobaccostore I"

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Old News
Michigan Argus