Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — GOWNS FOR INDOOES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOWNS FOR INDOOES.

FIVE STYLISH COSTUMES FOR THE HOME. All the Dressea lictured Follow Closely the Ralee UH Down tor Stylish Dressing—The Wearer Appears Homelike and Vet Precisely Attired. * - Fashion’s Fancies. New York correspondence:

so. woman who to be well » f in her own L/B ' home and what woman does not— And in the accompany ing five pictures, and the EjSO' description of the costumes they portray, some suggestion for adaptation V\ to their own uses, f and practical aid 1 in carrying them I out. All the dress--1 es pictured are for J indoor wear, yet j none partakes of ———V the nature of a \ neglige, each foli . lowing closely the J_ rules laid down ■■SCI* I for stylish dross-

ing and making the wearer appearing at once homelike and yet precisely attired. The plainest of the lot comes first, and its sobriety is duo to the fact that it is offered as a model tor the middle-aged or older. Its material as sketched was iron-gray serge, though a great variety of materials would be equally tasteful. Its plain skirt has two deep pleats kept in place by three rows of Btitching. The boaice is trimmed with a soft broche silk in a shade matching the material. At the end of the grand basin at the Pair, oppose the Columbian fountain, stood of the Republic, and you cannotlio better than have your morning gown draped in the baok as Miss Republic wore her beautiful folds. If you saw her you will remomber; if you didn’t, these directions will make It clear. A full breadth of very wide and rich silken stuff must fall from your shoulders softly to the floor in the back. The material is gathered into many fine folds on each shoulder, and from this gathering two great flutes fall the full length, one from each shoulder. Between these flutes the

(foods fall In a groat many horizontal small folds to about the waist. In other words, the goods are gathered perand wide, tho edges taking rich flutes as they fall. Of course, under this would be worn a short-walsted gown of white, with sleeves flowing to the wrist. The dress Miss Republic wore is, perhaps, a little classic for reproduction, but the drapery effects were beautiful and worth preserving. Salmon silk over white, eminence velvet over lilac crepe, or deep golden-brown over corn-yellow would be good combinations tor it. If, of these two dresses, one is too plain and the other too fanciful for your liking, it may be that the dress worn by a young matron shown in the second illustration will prove a happy medium. Cut from yellow woolen crepe showing a small design in black stars, the skirt consists oi a bell-shaped pendieularly and horizontally, too. The sleeves are apparently continuations of the perpendicular gatherings, and they are, as it were, another breadth, each caught up looee'y and flowing along to the back, mingling with the back. The fronts fall open upper and a circular lower half joined together with two rows of shirring and a small head. The circular portion is three yards wide and is garnished with a lace frill ten inches wide around the bottom and by a second frill of the stuff two and a half inches in width ten inches above. The .jpcket has a yoke, alike in back and front, to which the two front pieces and back are shirred, with a side front under each arm. The sleeves have a fitted lining and the puff is mado of a piece of material gathered to the cuff and held in place near the elbow by a two-inch band of black lace insertion. The cuffs are also garnished with lace insertion. The epaulettes come from accordionpleated lace eight inches deep. The yoke is made of stuff and laoe Insertion In the manner indicated and is finished by a gathered lace frill topped by an arrangement of ends and lood3 of black

! watered ribbon. A belt of the same ties in a bow in the front. The little girl’s dress here has a zouave guimpe made of red and white-striped voile or pongee, and the jacket and skirt are from the bright-red cashmere. The , skirt is lined with stiff muslin and the j deep hem is topped by a white silk braid which also comes on the jacket. The guimpe hangs over the top of the skirt and is gathered to a neck-band and also at the waist with a drawstring. It buttons invisibly in front and has very full wide sleeves, finished with an elastic and a narrow ruffle at

the wrist. The jacket is cut away in front and the two points are held together by gold link buttons. Velvet is extensively used as a garniture this winter and bids fair to outdo everything else in the way of trimming. In the left-hand dress of picture the stuff used is terracotta and bluish-green mixed suiting trimmed with bluish-green velvet. The bodice is plain in back, but the fronts are six inches apart at the neck and two inches at the bottom, where they are gathered and fall in blouse fashion over the velvet belt. Each front is adorned with a band of velvet two inches wide ornamented with buttons spun with yellow silk. In the center a narrow folded strip of lemonoolored surah is visible, further ornamented with fancy herring-bone stitching in green silk. The revers collar ia made of double velvet and ends in points, something like jacket fronts, near the waist. The sleeves have a large puff tacked in the center and finished with silk ball fringe showing the colors of the material. The same

fringe falls over the velvet fold arouiMk the bottom of the bell skirt. From the extreme plainness of the initial’s costume to this complex affair is a long stride; indeed, as far as this article is concerned, the last costume 1b the climax of elaboration, for the remaining toilets are all more simple. Take the other figure in the same pioture; equally stylish, it is quieter in every way and its fabrio is black sillt, trimmed with pink. The skirt is moderately wide and is garnished around tho bottom by three ruffles, and two more come thirty inches higher. The bodice has a yoko of pink silk covered with shirred black illusion and trimmed with jet passementerie. The silk ie gathered to the yoke in front and baok, the fullness kept in place by passementerie bands. The wide belt is made of two bands of jet passementerie divided by a silk stripe. The puffs of the sleeves are also trimmed with jet bands put over pink sllic and tho gathered epaulettes aro edgod with the tame. The wrists and standing collar are trimmed with a ruchlng of black silk covered with illusion. The model at the left in the fourth sketch is a youthful one, and one particularly suitable for slender figures. The material lised is a red, blue and yellow finely plaided cheviot, trimmed with yellow satin und black watered silk. The skirt must fit snugly over the hips and the remainder is slashed to give the boxpleats. At the top in front the pleats aro slit to permit m. band of watered silk to pass through, and end in a huge bow at the left side. The bodice has a round yoke and standing collar made of yellow satin. The seam joining bodice and yoke is hidden by a circular collar of mack watered sflk finished at the left side with a large bow of watered ribbon. The openings between the pleats are filled' in by pieces of ribbon to make it appear as if the collar were run through the same as the ribbon on the skirt. The puffed leg-o’-mutton sleeves have turned hack cuffs of yellow satin. The righthand dress is composed of sand-colored doth and garnished with velvet in a darker shade. The skirt has a bellshaped foundation which is covered with three deep ciroular flounces that are not hemmed at tho edges. Ilia fitted bodice books in front beneath the plastron of velvet, which is fastened at one side and hooks over to the other.

The fronts turn back to form revers and are caught with two pearl buttons at the waist. The revers as well as tha turned collar are made of velvet. The bodice further has a triple garniture of circular ruffles that come »Ul the way around in back and end in points in front. None of these ruffles arehemmed or lined, and the space between each succeeding frill is one inch. The bodice also has a circular skirt that ia very wide around the bottom. While the young woman’s pose i» the final picture is of the lolling, semireclining sort, yet her dress is not of the neglige order which so often accompanies such posturing. It is a very pretty house dress, made from white and blue striped silk, trimmed with white guipure lace. The skirt is trimmed around the bottom with three narrow lace ruffles and is lined with silk. The bodice has a point in back and hooks in front. It is adorned with separate jacket fronts, round at the bottom and having small revers at the top that are hidden by the wide frill of lace commencing at the base of the revers, then continuing over the shoulders and meeting in a point in the center of the back. The center of the front is trimmed with a perpendicular band of lace that hides the hooks and eyes. Tho jacket fronts are faced with blue velvet and the belt is to match. SmalL yokes, pointed front and back, and lot into bodices, are covered with rows of braiding and gold. These yokes often come out for especial occasions. But the American woman has a deep-rooted objection to the trick gown that can be made to serve any occasion by taking in or out yokes, adding trains and removing sleeves. When she has a new dress she want* every one to know it’s new,’ and that, it isn’t the sange old one with the neck out or with a piece gone from th» train. Copyright, 1693. Mrs. Gayboy (after kissing her husband) —Oh, Charlie, have you been drinking? Mr. Gayboy Nothin stronger than a little brandy, my dear. Mrs. Gayboy (much relieved) —Oh, it’s all right, then—Troth.

THIS LOOKS HOMELIKE.

CONTRASTED ELABORATION AND SIMPLICITY.

TWO OF THE SLENDER TYPE.

DRESSINESS AND COMPORT COMBINED.