Spring Styles

Spring Goods. - The first importation of goods for the next season show stripes, armuros, basket-woven goods, small neat floriated designs, polka dots and borders for trimminKs. Plain smoothly woven fabrics are shown in oolors to aecompany the striped and colored stuffs, and the eonibination of two or three kinds of material in a singlo dress will evidently be continued. Spring Woolens. - The new woolens have what is called by merchants the '■ "flannel finish," meaning a wooly ! face, without luster, and very soft. These come in plain colors or in narrow stripes of two tones of a color, or else in the loose basket-weaving. The colors are moss, beige brown, gray and black. A new camel's hair fabric is shown without twills and with flannel ; finish ; it is of lighter weight than any before shown, and is as thin as bunting j or as grenadine ; it is most largely imported in beige brown and black. The gray woolens look prettiest in odd armure designs, or in stripes a fourth of an inoh wide oí two clear shades of French gray. The standard de bege is imported in gray, olive, moss, beige and navy blue. Low priced woolen mixtures for the million have tiny thread stripes and checks, or zigzag effects of two shades, such as cream with brown or else in contrast, as gray with red. Ohecked effects are given in the weaving rather than the coloring; stripes will be preferred to checks, or at least they have been more largely imported. Few plaids are shown, but the.re are many cross-barred pattems. Cotton Saiteens, Etc- The luster of satin is so popular at piesent that it has been given to cotton goods, and the novelty for spring wash dresses will be ( satteens, finely twilled, yet soft and c flexible, and with a genuine gloss like 1 tlie luster of satin. Whether this satin finish will survive washing remains to 1 be seen, but the pretty patterns are said ( to be last ; they are small flowers in ' quisite colors, beautifully grouped, as if c designed by artists. The grounds are ' sky blue, cream, French gray, brown, or ' white, and there are striped grounds of ! two contrasting colors - rose with blue, ' gray with pink, cream with blue. These are to form gay Pompadour over-dresses ! with striped vests and plain-colored ' skirts. Among the best satteens are ' stripes of two shades of gray or of ecru, ' with a border of dark cardinal red '■ strewn with pakn leaves. ' How to Make Spring Dresses, - The first new dresses shown for spring have basques and coats with vests, overskirts, and lower skirts that ding to the figure in front and on the sides, and aro very simply trimmed around the bottom with on e or two plaited flounces. They are made of lawns and the satteens jus't describcd, with borders, and are very fancifully mado with two or three different kinds of goods in a single dress. For instance. a eav little drpss of r-ntnr satteen lias a demi-trained skirt of sky blue, with a long apron overskirt of the same, much wrinkled acrosa the front, nml dged at the bottom with a broad band of blue and white striped satteen -the stripes perpendicular instead of liias - and below this is gathered white Russian lace. The vest is of the striped stuff, and so mucb of it is visible that it really becomes the basque of the suit ; a jabot of lace is down the whole front of the vest. Above all this is a tiny coat of cream and blue and red flowered satteen, sloped away frotn the top of darts very far on the sides. Every detail of an elabórate costume is carried out in these simple fabrics. The coat is piped with blue, and has a striped reversed collar, and down the back of the overskirt are draperies made of the flowered and striped stuffs.