Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-05-24

LeStaes Lddys Magazine for June we tax,
, the following for the entertainment of ou
lady readers:
We are just entering new season-th'
sweet summer season. Spring, so mucl
praised and sung by poets, is often but 1
season of chilling disappointment, chilling
in every sense of the word, with cold blast
and tedious rain, but when the fair month
of June is come we may confidently hop'
to have soft breczes and warm sunshine.
With the change of the season 1t is ex
pedient to think of change in dress, anC
: to take general review of the new fash
ions. reg
The materials most in favor just now
: are those with very small patterns, of two
: shades of the same colors or of differen
tints, In the style called jardiaiere. Mohair
printed with colored designs, chined leno
taffetas de-laine, self-colored or finely
striped, chined sultana, sort of very fin,
silky leno, with satin stripes or brocaded
bouquets, are the principal kinds of fancy
materials. They are all most generally o1
light, quiet tints, gray, fawn-colored
green, or mauve, with very small patterns,
fine stripes, or simply chined. Those that
are self-colored are of very soft, fresh tints
Fou!ard Is material most suitable for
summer wear, being extremely light and
cool. 1t looks extremely pretty for dresses
in gray, lilac, or mauve, with small colored
patterns, dots, fine patterns, fine stripes, or
a chined ground, with pattern Of flower
cts over it. .-a.. f
Richer silks, such as os-grains, poult-
de sole and poplin, are either plain or bro
caded, chined or striped. r' losai ia7'-
/ Then, for summer toilets, there are
dresses of gaze de Ctdmbery, white, with
small brocaded patterns, large flowers or
satin stripes; muslin dresses, with patterns
printed in colors, and one deep flounce a
disposition, or entirely white, with just one
garland of flowers printed in colors above
the hem, round the bodice and sleeves; or,
again, white muslin trimmed with strips OF
insertion in embroidery and Valenciennes
lace. These clear fabrics are infinitely pref
tier and more suitable for summer dresses
| than richer and more expensive materials.
White dresses will be much worn this
summer; not only white muslin or gauze,
woolen fancy materials. The dress and
paletot white, the under-skirt colored,
mauve, light blue, or green, or even rose
color. The trimming of the dress and
paletot will be composed OF cross strips or
rouleaux of silk of the color of this under
skirt, which, in some cases, will itself be
made entirely of colored silk.
For morning walks, excursions in the
country, and residence at seaside watering
places, the short costume is so convenient
that it is looked upon as almost indispen-
sable. 1t is made of fancy materials, plain,
speekled, or with fine stripes, with short
paletots to match. The short skirt, trimm-
worn over an underskirt of the same ma
terial, or at least of the same shape, than
over skirt of a completely different color.
Thus there are very pretty fancy materials
striped white and green, blue or lilac, and
others self-colored of the same shade as the
stripes; both are employed for the same
costume, the striped material for the dress
and paletot, and the self-colored for the
skirt, or, if preferred, the reverse. II
High bodices for dresses of fancy ma
terials are mostly made with round waist
bands, separate from the skirt, so that the
latter may be worn at pleasure with q
white bodice. The Princess shape is gen.
orally adopted for dresses of rich thick
silk tissues. AS for the sleeves, they are
either quite long and tight-titting, or loose
and open, Ia juice. We have seen very
elegant dresses of gaze de ChGm6ery with
wide dropping sleeves and tight ones un-
derneath. Some tight sleeves are made
with creves, showing bouillons of white
muslin or colored silk, according to the ma
terisl of the dress. .i-s 51-
>Crinolines are not entirely abandoned in
Paris; indeed but few ladies have given
them up entirely !; they wear the peplum
skirt with only two or three steel circles
round the bottom, and very much gored ; it
is short to wear with the short costume,
long and train-shaped to wear with long
dresses. In both cases it is very narrow,
and has no fullness at all at the top, round
the waist.
The short, loose paletot is still the favor
ite garment this season it is either straight
or cut out in scallops, vandykes or tabs of
different shapes round the bottom. Some
have the front pieces longer than the ack,
others have very short side pieces. The
coat sleeve is generally worn for demi-toi-
let paletots, butloose, open sleeves are more
novel and elegant. ss.tEs .szE
Paletots are made of gros-grain silk, light
summer cloth, cashmere, or of any material
similar to the dress. Those of silk or cash
mere are trimmed with cross strips of the
same material, edged with satin pipings :;
with satin rouleaux placed either In straight
rows or in vandykes and other patterns :;
with rosettes of silk, piped with satin with
gimp, silk braid, studded with jet guipure
lace, crimped with silk fringe; jet grelots,
&c. Jet is always added in profusion to
lace, braid, or gimp trimmings. I'D .zss
Although satin is not considered a mate
rial suitable for the summer, and no dresses
or paletots are made OF it at this time of the
year, it is much used in most OF the newest
.styleS of trimming. Streamers at the back
of the paletot are still fashionable, and are
even wider and longer than they were last
winter. Sometimes they are as much as
twenty inches longer than the paletot it.
self. When there are no streamers the
trimming generally comes up in the center
of the back of the garment. But white silk
and cashmere paletots, which are meant to
wear with full 1toiletdresses, are always much
trimmed, those of cloth are on the contrary
very simply ornamented; they are especi-
ally suitable tor morning walks, for the
country or the seaside.
A particularly elegant pattern for pale
tot is not quite loose, but taken in little
at the back: and pointed, or, rather, train
shaped behind it has very small pelerine
at the top, and loose. open sleeves. This
pattern is very new and distinoue, it re-
qhires to be worn with toilet complete,
and elegant in all its details, and over a