The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-06-03
CHIT CITATION FASHIONS.

boufant pdniers, and short, punched up
sashes, although seen perhaps more ex-
tensively than ever upon the street, are
giving way, in more private circles, to
softer more flowing and graceful styles.
The introduction Of crepe de chine as
one of the most important fabrics for
dressy toilets has created or revived the
taste for yielding, delicate materials,
and supplanted the stiff stuffs, which
hardly required the addition OF patent
Innings, to make them take any shape
or form required.
The change is decidedly advantageous
80 far az simplicity and the quantity OF
material required are concerned Over
skirts are longer; but they do not cut
up, or cut into, or waste the material in
punching up, as the short ones did.
Moreover, they are more confined to
ceremonious toilets-the outside gar,
ment Stimulating an overskirt upon walk
ing dresses
Very elegant evening dresses are now
made of white, pink or blue taiHe (cOr,
ded silk, trimmed upon the front en-
abHer, and having a long overskirt OF
China crepe, the shade Of the silk, Dor,
dered with crimped fringe 10 match.
The low bodice is trimmed with folds
of China crepe: and fringe.
Quite an innovation is announced III
Paris by the new leader Of fashion,
Nine. Ollivier-that of high-necked
dresses for evening wear. The lady, it
ia said, not only wears them herself but
has intimated her desire that ladies who
frequent her salons should follow her
example.
Such style, should il become gen
eral, would cause nothing less than a
social revolution abroad, where low
necks, for full dress, have been as
long and a. firmly established a. class
distinctions. Here we are only just ac-
quiring through the influence of the in
itiative, travelled class, all the bad hab-
its which, with them, have been the
growth of centuries, and should have
less difficulty in getting rid of them.
The prevailing style of the summer
walking dress is the simple and conve-
nient one Of three years agO-thr skirt
and Polonaise. Silks, mohairs, pop
Inns, as well as linens and piq"cs, are
made in this style, and with great sat
isfaction and comfort to the wcarcr.
A new and very pretty trimming, for
and wooden goods, consists of
a flat, single plating in doubled ma
terial, three inches deep, placed round
the bottom Of the skirt, surmounted by
three or five cross-cut folds, each two
inches deep, and headed by an upright
plating, the same width as the folds.
The fashionable Polonaise opens in
front, is rounded off only very little,
and is full at the back, which is cut
separate from the waist, and gathered
into the sides so as to form side pdnjerS
The sash fills up the space at the back
Twelve or fifteen yards will make 4
suit of this description, unless much
is required. .
Flat braids trim linen and pigv9 very
very cheap, easily done up,
and wear as long as the material-so,
of course, they must continue to he the
most popular finish
Embroidered ruffling unbleached
gG;p,re, and black velvet undoubtedly
produce more distinguished effects, but
they are too costly for ordinary wear,
by ordinary people.
We cannot commend too highly the
simple linen suits, which, happily, have
obtained so great vogue, and have
been so useful and economical, that
they will not be very readily displaced.
For riding and country walking wear,
they are far more available than any
others.
The little Tom Thumb fringe is
the favorite edge for the ruffies Of thin
dresses this season-for haregcs and
even for summer silks. 1t forms Il
very pretty finish. The top heading
consists usually of plated ruching or
ruches of silk, feathered ont.
Lace oyergarments are in great vogue
Summer suits are nearly all made of
white or buff linen, pique, cambria, or
and the art Of preserving the
new appearance after washing is a mat
ter of the very greatest Importance.
Common washerwomen spoil every
thing with soda, and nothing is more
frequent than to see the delicate tints of
lawns and percales turned into dark
blotches and muddy streaks by the ig-
norance and vandalism of laundress
1t is worth while for ladies to pay
to this, and insist upon having
their summer dresses washed according
to the directions which they should be
to give their laundresses them
selves. -......
In the first place, the water should
be tepid, the soap should not be al
lowed to touch the fabric; it should he
washed and rinsed quick, turned upon
the wrong side, and hung in the shade
TO dry, and when starched Yin thin
boiled, but not boiling. starch) should
be folded in sheets or towels, and ironed
upon the wrong side as soon as posi-
bic.
But linen should be WASHED in water
in which hay has been boiled, or Il
quart bag III bran. This lat will he
found to answer for starch, a. well. and
is excellent for print dresses Of all
kinds, but handful Of salt is verv Use
full also to set the eolors of light cam
hrics and dotted lawns; and little
beefs gall viii not only set, but
yellow and purple tints. and
has a good effect upon green.