Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1875 — Parisian Costumes. [ARTICLE]

Parisian Costumes.

The most elegant spring costumes sent out by Pingat are made of plaid soft twitted silks combined with plain gros grains. These basket-woven and twilled silks, called Louisines, wen introduced by leading modistes last summer, and are now largely imported. They drape more softly than grosgrains,and are therefore preferred for over-skirts. They are also used for the basque, for cuffs, flounces, and for pipings on flounces ot solid color. Shaded ecru and brown plaids, or else blue with gray, seem to bo most popular in these rich and expensive suits; there are also black and white and gray effects that are much admired. The tran.-parent Mexicaines, lighter than grenadine, and in brownchecksor plaids, will be much used as upper draperies. The basket-woven soft silks also come in stripes like limousine. An over-dress of this silk has an ecru ground, with thread stripes of brown, gold and scarlet. The sleeves and skirt are of nut-brown silk, with flounces and pipings of the soft striped fabric. The striped apron is very deep, and so wide that, though curved up behind, the entire skirt is concealed. Down the front of the apron is dark brown .silk shirred in clusters, making prettily-shirred pleats that are very effective. The striped flounces are shirred lengthwise, and have the suras effect Thd harlequin fringe on the over skirt has all the colors, also the striped design, of the silk. "White duchesse lace trims the neck and front of the basque. Another costume of gray and blue plaid twilled silk has every detail perfectly carried out; even the buttons down the long front were made for the dress and are graduated in size, growing very large at the bottom. The elaborate silk fringe has a deep-latticed heading of the two colors. Some Paris dresses display an odd fashion of making one side so different from the other that they look like parts of two dresses put together by mistake. Thus one side of the front will have the tablier representing three aprons, or perhaps four, while the other is but one glish S a th € e i back, tapering to the waist, a fashion that is very becoming to the figure. •w® DOWS OT 0008 ' ■■l niilfl flftsilM “ I pleats.—JHbfpw’s Ansar.