Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1876 — Ecru Over-Dresses, Etc. [ARTICLE]

Ecru Over-Dresses, Etc.

Ecru and cream-color have so long been in favor for summer wear that it seems difficult to give them up,-hence merchants have brought on a novelty for these pale buff over-dresses that accompa ny so many colors, and are becoming alike to blondes and brunettes. This novelty is ecru Spanish lace in the pretty and inexpensive blonde figures that we' have had in black 9panish laces. The ample basque or sacque and the long round over-skirt are of ecru net in leaf or rose pattern, trimmed with rows of insertion, and fully gathered ruffles of the ecru lace in designs matching the ground of the over-skirt. Bows of cream-colored silk drape the skirt and ornament the basque. These are to be worn over brown, black, blue, or purple silk or velvet skirts. The fashion of using dark bows on these light dresses is passee. There are cream and white striped Algerienne stuffs for overdresses to be worn at the sea-side. The

basque has sleeves of cream-colored silk, and the trimming is three or four ruffles of cream-colored lacd. Polonaises are made up very richly but plainly in these delicate-tinted fabrics. The Spanish mantilla, so graceful and becoming, is imported in the creamy Spanish laces. They drape the body like a mantle, and are drawn up in a cap crown that covers the top of the head, and is ornamented by a large Alsacian bow of cream-colorea silk. These are to be worn during the summer at the watering-places. White Spanish lace is also used for these mantillas, and ornamented with striped blue and white bows. It is sait} that dark green, blue, and brown grenadine dresses will be fashionably worn in the summer, though of course not to the exclusion of the favorite black grenadine. These come in lace-like stripes and blocks like those described for solid black. One French model is of myrtlegreen striped grenadine, trimmed with side pleating of the same, striped at intervals with silver braid, and ruffled with lace of the same dark myrtle shade. The apron is in three diagonal draperies, has much pleating on the sides, ana bias puffs behind. — Harper's Bator. , ' The California wool product and move* mentfor 1875, as stated in the annual report of the San Francisco Wool Exchange, is about thus: Stock Jan. 1, 1875, 6,458,000 lbs.; one year’s product, 48,582,300 lbs.; receipts from Oregon and foreign sources, 2,235,000 lbs., making the total supply 52,215,200 lbs. The total ship, ments during the year were 48,183,000 lbs., or 4,650,800 more than the product. Local mills have taken about 8,612,200 ib*.. which nearly clears thejmarket.