Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1880 — FASHION FRIPPERIES. [ARTICLE]

FASHION FRIPPERIES.

HINTS ABOUT DRESSES, Pleated skirts forming double kilts are very fashionable for foulards and for thin wool dresses. Hoods are about to be revived, and are made on round capes that reach only to the elbow, as well as on the long straight gowns that form over-dresses for suits. Gathered ruffles made very narrow and double of the silk are on Paris dresses. The gay cotton dresses are quite as effective as those of foulard, and are secured for Newport and Saratoga. Creamy muslin embroidery and white Languedoc lace are lavishly used on French costumes of Turkey red calico ; the parasol and fan to match are of the same calico, very delicately painted by band. Other cretonne, satine and mummycloth dresses are made up in the Watteau designs that are used for foulards, and are elaborately trimmed with lace. Yachting dresses of wool bunting are made of the handkerchief-patterned bunting, with blue ground, polka-dotted with red. Dark blue foulard with white polka dots is made into charming short dresses, faced with dark red, and sold for SSO. Red foulards in Turkish patterns are faced with blue. Dark winecolored Surah dresses are elaborately trimmed with, creamy white muslin and embroidery. Coat sleeves of dresses are made very high on the shoulders, and stand upward like men’s coat-sleeves. The wrists of sleeves are very plainly finished, and are trimmed with lace pleatings. INEXPENSIVE DRESSES. Sleazily woven flannel, called by the merchants beige de saute, and sold for 25 cents a yard, is made up for summer dresses for the country. It may be had in navy or peacock blue, gray, olive, or cardinal, and, while all pure wool, is of such light weight that it is liked for morning dresses. The box-pleated waist or belted basque is simply stitched, or else piped with dark red. There arc two or throe full straight breadths gathered or pleated in the back, and an apron drapes the front and sides. A boxpleated rutile piped with red trims the edge. When made at home such dresses ne (I not cost more than $5. For low-priced white dresses the summer zephyr sold at 18 cenfis a yard is a very pretty creamy white muslin as soft and thin as India muslin, and with a erap '-like crinkle. This makes a charming drapery for a, partly-worn evening dress of light silk, and might also be edged with the new cream and gold laces, and draped upon dark or even black silks. Shawls with solid centers and embroidered borders are being utilized for the long coats and surtouts now in fashion. One of navy-blue cashmere, with dotted embroidery of pale gray in the border, makes a beautiful overdress for a gray silk trimmed with blue satin pleating. Another shawl of brocaded silk and wool mixed cream and gold is also effective for a long coat, to be worn with a skirt of black velvet. A coachman’s-drab coat of fine cashmere, with brown velvet Directi are collar and pockets, is worn with a brown-velvet skirt. Spanish lace will be the fashionable net for polonaises in the summer, and will be worn with dresses of pale gray, heliotrope, or ecru silk. Gray or brown Cheviot, in black patters, as well as in checks, is sold for the popular price of 50 or 60 cents a yard, for making light woolen suits for spring, summer, and fall. It is made with a pleated skirt, which is sometimes a plain kilt, but more often there are three rows of pleating across the back breadths, covering them from the belt to the foot, while the front is a single kilt. A long coat basque or a still longer surtout is piped with red to complete the suit.