The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-02
CuIr-omAr ON FASHIONS.

some and less stirring than the oafre
plaids and cloud" colors of last year.
Looking through the stocks of j. 3.
Rhodes & Co., Geo. L. Taylor d Co.,
Brues g. Sanders and others of our
leading dry goods houses, we were as
tonished at the great reduction in
prices and the increased excellence of
the fabrics. From the assortments dis
played by our retail dealers we select
most of the varieties below mentioned,
as being dressy, economical and fashion
able.
The short costume is the regulation
street attire for another season, and we
are glad to see indications that it will
continue in vogue for an indefinite
period. No other dress is so appropriate
for street wear, and none is so generally
available now that short skirt can be
worn indoors on all occasions except
when full dress is required.
| Solid colOrs, with some variations
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spring costumes, and an indispensable
requisite Of stylish toilets is that they
be made of soft, yielding fabrics, that
fa.l into graceful drapery when Topped
and festoOned 10 the elaborate manner
decreed by fashion.
The surprising beauty of the cash
mere costumes of the winter over those
of heavy poplin demonstrated that
starch is the enemy of all graceful
dressing; hence We have for spring
suits such flexible materials as China
Grape. pongee and foulard, while for
the summer are soft finished percales
aud muslins, wholly innocent of starch
and intended to remain so.
The most dressy fabric imported this
season is China Grape of the proper tex
ture and width for costumes. Though
more firmly woven than the Grape used
for ball dresses, it retains much of the
peculiar crinkle and lustre of that beau
tliul material. Only the overdress, such
as draped habit or Matternich mantle,
is made of Grape, the short skirt be.
meath being of silk. The thinning is
thick, soft fringe, crimped to initiate
the crinkle Of Grape. Black velvet and
Valenciennes lace are also proper gar
nitures for Grape.
Japanese pongee (or the stuff that is
called such, though like China Grape, it
is manufactured in France,) is Of the
same texture as Grape, but has smooth
surface.
The substantial pongee poplins, so
much in favor last spring, are again
brought out in various shades of gray.
These are prettily made up with two
skirts and loose slashed paletot, trim
med with black velvet, and scant gath
cred ruffles edged with Tom Thumb
fringe.
Another cliuging graceful material
is the new serge foulaTd, double-twilled,
and too firmly woven to slip and fray in
the seams as foulards were wont to do.
The color5 are golden brown, olive,
cream color, fawn blue, and the gray
tin.s.
One of the stuns best adapted for the
earliest spring suits is the light wooden
Jasper serge previously mentioned. a
novel design for costumes Of this mate
rial is to make the underskirt of plain
twilled serge, mixing white with black,
brown, blue or purple, while the draped
mantle or casaque is in small irregular
p!aids of the two colors i'll the skirt.
Bias bands Of the plaid goods, piped
with folds of solid Colored cashmere,
will trim the skirt; cashpere bands,
collar and cuffs the over garment. This
will make n stylish and serviceable
costume for morning, shopping and for
travelling.
Lyons poplin. sold for spring suits, is
composed of silk and wool, like Irish
poDlin, but is in smaller reps, and far
lighter and more flexible. 1t is lus-
trous, durable and colored with French
skill
Frou-frou poplin-the word signifies
the rustic of a lady's dress-is a smooth
glossy fabric of wool and some silk, so
wiry that when you crush it in your
band it rebounds with rustic like silk.
Among other inexpensive goods are
French twesds and summer winseys,
made of cotton and wool, in black and
white mixtures, producing clouded
grayish. effects, and in the bright pur-
ple pasuy color. These materials will
be popularity WON all summer. Trim
med with pleated ruffles edged with
black braid, these make very stylish
suits.
Some novelties in grenadine bareges
are Just the reverse of last seasons
STYLES, These are costumes with solid
colored underskirt and the same color
with bayadere satin stripes for the
overdress. For instance, black gren-
adine skirt is to DO worn beneath a
draped casaque, or with tunic made
also of black grenadine, in which are
woven crossway stripes of blue, green,
brown, white or purple.
Less conspicuous than these, because
entirely self. cOlored, are finer grena-
dimes, silk warped with weOl weft, the
skirt plain and the upper dress striped
crossways with satin of the same shade.
These find favor with city purchasers,
as the prefsresce here is for suits of
different shades of one color rather than
for contrasts, and the different fabrics
of these stripes suggests this popular
idea.
Designs for costumes are shown in
lustrous yak cloth, semi-transparent
silky stuff made of the fleece of the yak
goat, which is stronger than ordinary
goats hair. Its merits are that it will
not fray nor crease with crushing, and
is not affected by climate.
In ine yak cloth the ends of the silky
fleece are seen extending beyond the
woven selvedge.
What will be worn more than any
thing else, when the proper weather
arrives, is suits Of wash materials. A
half dozen of these will cost no more
than a single poplip suit, will always
afford fresh dress, and will serve for
almost the entire outfit of plain people,
as they may be donned the first thing
in the morning and worn either in the
street or house any time of the day.
The goods sold by the yard for suits
are piques, white, buff or pearl-gray,
repped, cross barred or with twilled
stripe; satin jean, twiiled and glossy;
unglazed cretonnes, that do not muss
easily; and lastly, but most charming of
all, is ecru linen lawn, declared by mer'
chants to be all linen, but containing,
probably, the same percentage of Gotten
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