Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1878 — Cambric Costumes, Etc. [ARTICLE]

Cambric Costumes, Etc.

The furnishing stores display new costumes of percale, cambric and Scotch ginghams, trimmed with pleated frills of the material, on which fall scant ruffles of white Hamburg embroidery. The favorite design for these is the pleated basque, with the pleats extending far below the hips, and the edge finished with embroidery. The shoulders may have a yoke in front only, op perhaps only in the back, while the front is pleated, but in most cases there is a yoke both in front and back. The over-skirt has a very long; wrinkled apron with soft drapery behind, and in most cases it is sewed permanently to the lower skirt either at the belt on just below it. It is easier, however, to iron such dresses when each part is made separately, and the effect is just the same. The bourette figured percales in gray with blue, or black on white, brown or navy blue, are most used. When American percales are chosen, the suit is sold for $6.50. Cambric wrappers are also being fancifully made at the furnishing houses. The prettiest of these have a yoke with Watteau pleating in the back, and are made of bordered cambrics, with the border used for trimmings down the front, edging the yoke, pockets, collar and cuffs. Other wrappers are trimmed up the front to represent a plastron, and are cut off below the waist, and have pleated fullness added there. Plain Gabrieli? wrappers simply bordered, or else with a deep Spanish flounce, are sold forsl. For nice wool wrappers that are needed for cool mornings in the country, American basket-woven cloth at seventy-five cents is used, or else the domestic bourettes at the same price. These come in pale blue, to be trimmed with olive green or with navy blfte, or in cream-color or pink, with both of which dark cardinal red is chosen for bows and facings.

Carrick capes promise to be very much worn on various spring garments. They are seen on cloth sacques, on basques of plain costumes, on polonaises, on Dolmans, on English cloth traveling cloaks, and finally on linen Ulsters. Those on new sacques for spring are deeper than those worn during the winter, and some are lightly trimmed with rows of braid. S“ts of three capes are on wraps, but basques have only one or two. It is said that the capes without other wraps will be uspd for spring; they will be made of cloth of light quality.— Harper's Bazar.