The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-25
FASHIONS.

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each. The China grapes and pOngees,
of which we have already spoken, are
the newest dress goods we have; they
are handsome and expensive. The Grape
is over a yard and half wide.
Stripes prevail in every material,
from rich silks to plain ginghams. The
percale and the foulards are striped;
the Japanese silks and the Scotch ging.
hams are striped. Buff and brown linen
dresses are still in favor. They are cool
and admirably adapted for travelling.
They are made with double skirts, or
skirt and polonaise, and trimmed with
a plated flounce.
The train, it is authoritatiyely stated,
is shorter, being only one yard long for
ceremonious occasions. This rule must
have its exceptions, for the New Jersey
bride who walked up the aisle of the
church the other day, with negroes hold
ing up her train, had one four or five
yards long.
White muslin aprons with colOred
ribbon under the hem, are very pretty
for little girls. FluUed frills forms q
very neat trimming for these tasty little
trihes. The bretelles are similarly
rich neealework, and the small pointed
pockets are finished with embroidered
revers.
A novelty in silks is a new color re-
Gently imported for dinner dresses and
called corcile. 1t is very brilliant in
gaslight, resembling d delicate shade of
flame color, with light and dark flashes.
One popularity of this coral tinted silk, |
commanding it to all, is that it becomes
both the blonde and brunette, which can |
be said of very few colors.
Chene silks, small checks and stripes |
are still fashionable, and for evening
wear the changeable and light delicate
shades are much ia vogue. Rich black |
silk is also much sought after, as it is |
more suitable to be worn on all occa- |
sions, at the seaside and watering places, |
than light silks. Black silk is also much |
used for suits and more worn than the
chene, small checks or narrow stripes,
which are fashionable for street cos
tunes.
The changeable Japanese silks are
new, and as pretty and effective as the
changeable taffetas silk. Whether this |
japanese silk will be durable, or
will become soiled easily, cannot yet be
decided, but it is not expensive.
Grenadines in black grounds, or in the
delicate shades of fashionable COlors,
with set figure or richly tinted flower,
are worn this season. Bat for summer
evening wear the gaze de Chambery is
most in vogue, and the new designs are
very pretty, being in wide stripes of
white, or some delicate shade, and mar
of
For home wear there are the cool,
pretty organizes, with snow white
ground and delicate sprays of beautiful
flowers resting upon it. The new piques
are in white grounds, with small set
figures and flowers. The white pique is |
much used for children's dresses and |
suits, which are usually trimmed with
white, and is much prettier than the |
colored trimming in vogue year or
two since. The fiat "Marseilles" braid |
is much used for Ornamenting these
suits, and the simpler and neater it is
put on the prettier the effect.
Patterns for dresses, the material imi- |
tating linen, have stripes for two founc-
es around the bottom, also a stripe for |
trimming the corsage and sleeves.
English twilled foulards are some |
thing new and pretty for summer suits, |
being light and cool and much more
service1ble than silk costing the same
money. These twilled foulards are in
bright, pretty cOlors, with fine stripes OF
delicate figures. A pretty design for
either a morning or evening dress is
white ground, with small blue flower
and sprays of leaves or a pearl-gray |
Wit Loo nr
crimson flowers.
But the most serviceable suits are |
made of genuine mohair alpaca, which |
wears handsomely, and if made neatly
and fashionably looks we'll.
Prints are in good demand and much |
reduced in price.
GRNTLEMEN's FASHIONS.
John L. Rice, Merchant Tailor, Mon |
roe street, kindly furnishes US with the
following description OF the prevailing
styles for gentlemen:
The style of gentlemen's garments
present an appearance in happy accord |
with this pleasant season of the year. |
Thus all the jaquettes with frOck waists
are cut easily and elegantly, and when |
worn with pantaloons half size, are de- |
cidedly characteristic Of the summer |
season. The jsQuette has decidedly the |
back-wsist cut longer and narrower, the |
collar extremely low in the stand |
up, and the fall-dOwn narrow and very .
hat, with lspels that roll to the bottom .
of the jaquette, and the skirt Of medium /
length, and thrown back at front very
similar 10 the style Of the dress
coat ala JrGHcGiS. They are also made
with narrow lapels rolling short, if the
jsquette has q heavy skirt a little
thrown back, and rounded of at bottom
of front, and having a flap covering
pockets in a style 10 represent q gar
ment neglige. The single breasted
frock coat, which has little the aD-
pearanee Of the jaquette, presents this
difference, that they may be made with
two kinds of laPels, either long or short,
with q short plain skirt, q tribe thrswn
back at front, and without flaps over
pockets; and the Weston, another gar
ment Of fancy, which may be made at
will in the Irvine, or half sack form, and
may be made with two kinds OF
lapels, both closing up at top, one with
a small short roll, and the other without
a collar, and held together By button
lust at top The Irvine style cannot be
called the most exclusive Of these a.
QUOTES, but it is much worn, aud with
out being cut closely at the back waist:
il has q plat in the skirt: this is the
difference between it and the jsqustte
with the frock waist, which is Termed
By the joining Of the side-body and
skirt, By the neanS of the vertical
ellipsis taken out under the arm, aud by
the baek-wsist being a little longer
than other styles ofjaquettes.
After these garments Of fancy, we
would remark as 70 other styles, that
! the dress froek cost and the evening