Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1875 — New Black Silk Costumes. [ARTICLE]

New Black Silk Costumes.

Notwithstanding the effort to introduce colors for street attire there still remains a decided partiality for black silk suits. The newest of these are trimmed with netted fringe with very deep heading and without beads. Many fanciful arrangements of aprons and over-dresses are introduced, but conservative ladies still like the full, round over-skirt with deep apron front, sides draped wery high and far back, and straight back breadths, caught up with tapes to. give a bouffant effect; sometimes the edge is simply faced with a bias hem, sometimes it has fringe, but in the greater number of cases it has knifepleatings of the silk sewed on with a seam underneath without heading. A plain jockey basque,pimply piped on the edge, and a short walking skirt, trimmed with two or three knife-pleatings, complete a tasteful suit that, while it is nqt the latest novelty, is liked for its stylish simplicity. Among the newest black silk costumes are those with two aprons edged with fringe and draped on the sides only. Down the middle of the front breadth "is a puff, widening gradually toward the bottom, and held by seven rows of shirring on each side and a ruffle; this shirring must be done with exquisite neatness, and the rows placed wery near together. Two revers the length of tLe skirt meet the curved sides and trim the back. A box-pleated flounce, held down in two places, trims the foot. The long basque has two square tabs behind, trimmed across with rows of jet fringe. The cuirass front has whalebones to the end of the darts. The fringe forms a Pompadour square in hack and front for trimming. A similar uress has five boxpleats set on tne front breadth, with a narrow knife-pleating at the foot, while three knife-pleatings trim the other breadths of the skirt. This has also two curved aprons draping the sides, while two long sashes edged with fringe are crossed and knotted on the back. — Harper's Bazar. Benjamin Fkanklin said: “It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.” This great truth is robbed of its sadness when we know that there is no necessity for a bag or anything elss to stand up when it would look better lying down.— X. 0. Republican. *-