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The Household

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
April
Year
1882
Copyright
Public Domain
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Satin goes out and plush goes in. We demand something with more epth of feeling than satin," therefore lush i f now the rage. It appears as drapery f or windows or xrs, either alone or mixed with some ;her fabric. A long strip, embroidered with silver or gold, the pattern runïing diagonally across it, forms a pret.y drapery for an arm chair; it is fasened to the chair at the upper righthand corner by a bow of corresponding satin ribbon. This may be used for ïther an upholstered or wicker chair. Baskets, too, are adorned with the ef t-over pieces of plush and ribbon. Fans are larger as to size and deeoration than last year. Those of peacock feathers are very effective, and are nade up in the most ingenious stylcs. [any beautif ui feather fans have a )iece of pale satin inserted among the eathers, upon which ilowers in figures re painted or embroidered. Pastei portraits promise to be the oming picture; their soft brilliancy eems particularly fitting for children's ictures. New goods, including carpets, upholstery, tapestries and curtain stuffs, show the influences of the English art renaissance. Sheila plush is the latest aovelty for upholstery. It is a jute or cosmos plush, the same on both sides, and comes in solid colors as well as in Oriental designs and colors. The early opening of spring suits by the Cooperative Dress Association showed that no material changes were apparent in the outline of dresses. Costumes of surah, merveilleux or gros grain, good models and well made, ranged from $25 to $65. Suits for misses and little girls, made entirely of surah or merveilleux, ranged from 15 to $25. Wash goods and nun's veiling suits for young girls will be made with f uil bodies and wide belts, leg-of-mutton sleeves and gathered skirts. This fashion will not be universal. The coat bodice is the favorito oí the moment. Dressmakers say that fully a third of the suits ordered are made with trimmed skirts and coat bodices. Draperies are in various styles, but the kilted flounce, or flounces and short tablier and high back drapery on a rather narrow gored skirt take precedence. While coat sleeves are more worn than thers, tkey by no means reign alone jeg-of-mutton and puffed sleeves apear on many costumes, especially those )f wash goods or light woolen fabrics and those of which the bodice is shirred r f uil. Many quaint, gracef ui sleeves ïave been invented. It remains to be een which will be permanently adopted. Among the prettiest goods for children are percales. Some have dark )lue, others have turquoise blue grounds on which are tiny bird designs, stnall ubes and parallelograms, delicate dots, rescents and circles in clusters, ancP other small figures in mingled pat;erns. The new bonnets and hats are mostly of English split and Dunstable straws, Milan straws and satin porcupine braids. The porcupine braids are colored garnet, bottle green, Havana and other browns, bronzes, drabs, light and dark blue, old gold, natural strawj and black. Bonnets and nat shapes are as varied as the most capricious can wish. The poke, directory and capote are however the leading styles in bonnets. Turbans and English walking hats compete with broad-brimmed sombreros, which may take any name f rom the Gainesboro' or Kembrandt to the Spanish student or the "Cuban planter." Panama straw is being revived, probably in compliment to Lesseps. Trimmod bonnets from Paris are covered with lace- generally Oriental or Spanish - flowers, fancy facetted beads of large size and eccentric shapes. ïhere are pompons of ostrich feathers and heron aigrettes, and ribbons of a new style of satin finish gros grain. Neapolitan horse-liair braids in white, straw colora and also dyed in shades of blue, brown and ruby are seen in small lots at leading wholesale millinery houses. The trimmings will be crepé broche - a new trimming material - fine Oriental lace, lace broche ribbons, flowers and tinted pearl facetted beads. A new millinery trimming, "satin parfait," is a soft lustrous gros grain silk similar to the "faille seduisante." When cut on the bias for a bonnet scarf itlooks likethe finest satin surah. Many oL the new poke bonnets have face trimmings of flowers. These flowers are large or small to suit the fancy. The brims of many of the pokes flare upward at such an angle as to make these face trimmings a necessity. All sorts of crowns, high, low, com cal, squarish, Normandy cap, sloping, round and oval appear in spring bonnets, while the brims vary as much as the crowns. They turn up in front like a diadem, turn down at one side or both, or bebind or in front, or are set obliquely around the crown like the rings of Satura. Amid all this variety, however, the capote and medium poke will prevail, while hats will be large. Manilla promises to be a leading straw. lts natural, soft, sober, harmonious color tries the complexion Iess than English or Milan straws. There are many good-looking women who can wear Manilla who would shun white Italian or English straw as too hard and trying to the face. Shepherd's plaids will again be in favor in ribbons, and also in Louisine and taffeta silks f or summer dressea. Many of the new ginghams, percales and prints come in shepherd's plaids also, both large and small checks. These checks are in white and black, and white and brcwn, or blue, red and purple, and also in red and pink, dark and pale blue, drab and brown, and in two shades of gray.

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