Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-07-01

" nat ~ CeStS-The Song OF the Skirt
New Cambria Morning Dresses-BridaI
Dresses, etc, etc.
From our Fashion Correspondent
NEW YORK, June. lS69.-June is one of the
pleasantest months in the year i'm New York
city, but not so July. by that time the heat has
penetrated the brick walls and stone pave.
ments, II lies and waits for You round the
corners, and is thrown back upon you pitilessly
from white marble fronts whose owners are
reyelling IN the grass and shade Of some
country house. while the Theoretically sealed
doors and windows OF the town mansion trown
down upon luckless people who must stay and
keep their company.
Then comes the noisy frightful Fourth of
July for which OF all our national sins was
Fourth OF July invented Surely, which ever
IL may have been the punishment has been
severe enough. Let US have peace. No New
Yorker, however, who can get out, stays in the
city on the Fourth OF July, on the third IL not
sooner, he packs his carpet bag, and she her
trunk and together or separate they fill, not to
say jam every boar, car, carriage or convey
ance OF any KIND that can carry them away
from the dreaded scene of heat aud tumult
Like the seventeen year Iocusts. they swarm
over every village and cosy country nook
and like the locusfs, also, eat mp every green
country cousins. and rot without reason. Who
would imagine that the delicate appetite, which
trIfes daintiiy over its thin waist and one egg
al home, could enlarge TO such dimensions
abroad 2. But so IL is. and even the n O clock
dinner, which had been considered a barbar-
ism. becomes an Institution perfectly admir-
able, with the single drawback that it is not
repeated till the mex, day.
The fact Is, every inhabitant of great city
mas dreams OF the country, picked up prInci-
pally from the columns Of weekly story papers,
or agricultural or horticultural novels, m
which eating forms the main object and occu-
patton OF existepca. The country. to the imay.
native story writer, is an enormous pantry
hiled with homemade pies, corn fed chickens
dishes of cream. pitchers OF creamy milk, stacks
OF new-laid eggs, and baskets OF fresh picked
barries and vegetables, which figure at every
meal. and when the New Yorker goes into the
country and the coIn-fed chickens and fresh
eggs don't appear, or only at remote intervals
and in infiniiesimai quanrities, he rushes at
them yoracIously, causes them TO disappear
with disgusting rapidly. and possibly, after
ailI announces hts conviction that the country
is swindle and a fraud.
NRw No.kIN s,staRE.
In an artistic po nj of View New York has very
few attractions durins he month OF July and
August. Flora McFiImsey and her compeers
are doing the springs or the mountain
or the lakes, or tie "fals or possibly canop.
ing ont for "fiyer' somewhere in the Adiron.
dacks, their silks, and muslins, and laces, and
oainty French-heel.a kids exc hanged tor
thlck-soled boots, a rough-and-ready suit and
Well, we miss Flora. she Is graceful. sh.
looks pretty, whether she is or not and she
magnificently ignores all those penny calcula
tons which comes so constantly between plain
sensible, practical women and their wishes:
and this brings me TO one OF the attractions that
New ork mas lot these same practical women
al this season of the year.
The great palace.iike stores are open more
for the accommodation Of custom. CLERKS hang
listlessly about; goods are marked down, and
what was not SO desirable 4 few weeks since,
when it was fresh and new. car be had almost
tor song. Now is the time for economical
housekeepers and mothers Of large families 80
purchase, and not a few whose requirements
are large and purses small take ad vantage or
the opportunity, gladly sacrificing the exac.
'ioh OF fashion 10 the more imperative demands
OF stern necessity.
THE MARCH UPWARD.
Either the march Of dry goods Is different
from the march OF empires, or the peculiar
topography of New York city has made a
departure from the natural law set down in
such cases possible. A. any rate, while fashion
does to the westward steadily incline, dry goods
progress just as steadily north ward
Persons who knew New YORK before the
war, and We're accustomed to do their shop ping
In one or other OF the little stores Compare.
uvely) scattered all the way up from Chant er
sneet 70 mon Square, would De quite at loss
oughly bewildered among the imposing build.
Ings clustered between Tenth and Twentle,
streets, 10 find one where q modest requirement
would be politely attended 10. The aristocracy
and pretensions, however, are more in appear.
ance than reality; the poor woman cali buy her
calico dress cheaper here than in little store
attendants, with a few unworthy EXCEPTIONS
are polite and patient.
THE SONG OF THE SKIRTS,
But IL was not 20 much OF their size, and the
poliienesS of the attendance that wish TO
speak, as the new feature which the interiors
exhibit The principal one of these is the
making up department for ladies and children.
aayn "
pal houses paid any attention to the making
up of clothing tor women and children, and
with these 1t was an expensive speciality,
which made no prov ision, and afforded no oc.
commodauon, for the want Of the gr eat middle
class, who are the chief supporters Of ali in
dustries. The garments offered consisted OF
baby cloaks, and articles OF baby's undercloth.
ing, made up IN the most costly style, dressing
wrappers, or robes de chdiabre, being the only
addition, IN the shape Of dresses, to the
stock. Wedding trousseau, or summer outfts.
were sometimes ordered, in which dresses
were included; but only under peculiar cream.
stances. or by very wealthy people. the cost
being enormously IN advance Of tue price FOR
which the article can be made at home.
with the improvements In se wing machines,
the common, almost universal uss, and the
conseqnent cheaPness Of labor, it hss Eradualiy
dAWned upon the minds OF women that NO
reason Tn the world existed why they should
not be able TO buy clothing ready.made as
cheaply and a. satisfactory as that or men. The
objection that q more exact fit 10 REQUIRED does
not hold with regard 10 the modern Welkinr
suits, or gored house dresses. sWhat ms one.
fits all" with the difference thar TIE rerular
graduations in size afford, while the ar1ument
is all in favor Of much better style And design
Ihan 10 generally Obtained At home.
Suits Of white Victoria lawn, haud.omely
rufised, are &I250 Pretty slits OF dotted lawn.
With pattern borders put on as ru Ming, three
and two With . beading, were only s9. not
more than the price Of making At any city
dTessmakers.
Gored morning wrappers Of American print
trimmed with q narrow borderiaG, stitched ON
are 1850 and -, and the same styls in cambric
and percAle, 20.
Trained white skirts Of excellent quality.
we'll made, and handsomely RULED, are IS 50.
and gored white skirts with wide hem and
eeyen narrow tuctss 70 wear with Walking
dresses, sl5O and e1.75.
These are well cut, shaped, and made In the
best possible manner, 20 that IL 10 q comfort 70
wear item, and II they have no: tine fnoness
and neatness Of exceptional garments. have
none OF the bOtch, ill.cuttinG, which often dis.
ntures homo made productions.
THE ECONOMICAL PorNr OF VIEW.
Probably the prices given. low % they sesm
to persons accustomed 70 the former extraya.
CANT rates and 70 the city cost Of labor, will 40.
rea- high 10 those whose limited means comuel
them to do even their own sewing o. the most
restricted scale, but there srs masy others, who