The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-09-28
ITEMS FOR THE LADIES.

Blue and narrow toilettes, trimmed with
white Bruges laces, are quoted from
abroad, Havana brown and ecru are also
much used with maroon. The marron, as
the FEench say, is not the color we call
maroon, but browner shade, like the
| French chestnut.
Fichus of white tarleten, laid III mapv
| folds, and trimmed with narrow pleGtinps.
are much worn in Paris with low .necked
dresses. The gathered fiounces on the
dress skirt are then edged with pleatings of
tarleton. This is frail trimming, and
the tarleton will not wash; but it is mex
| densive, and it costs less to have fresh
new pleatings made than to pay laundress
Tor washing those of muslin.
Black velvet enters largely into the
toilettes of the fall. Here 1t is confined
to trimmings and sashes but in Paris it is
used with less sparing hand, that latest
caprice beng for black velvet petticoat,
worn beneath casacque of Swiss muslin
and the voluminOus sash is also of velvet,
Short skirts still remain in favor: in
deed their usefulness, to say nothing of
the chance for display they afford, will be
sufficient reason why they should not be
displaced by long ones for short Cnes.-
Upper skirts are to be worn longer than
during the summer, making room for q
third skirt in some cases. One can hardly
go amiss for they only put on enough,
kufties, plaitings, ruches, fringes, lace, up
per skirts, and sashes, one above another,
complete the working costume.
For ball dresses we notice a aprofnsion of
laces, embroidery, and flowers, China
| Grape, and fine muslin embroidered with
gold in1r
| diamonds and presious are necessarily a
part of such costume for elderly ladies.
Young ladies can afford to adopt more
simplicity of style, having their youth in
their favor. Nothing can be more effect
i've for ball dress for a young than a
white tarletan, with deep fiounce plated
on the lower skirts, and the upper skirt
caught up with sprays of the same drop
over the chignon and shoulders.
A well-dressed lady is not always one
who dresses expensively. There are so
many novelties in the way OF additions 10
toilet that any lady of taste and a mod
crate degree of capability can make her
dress appear much more elegant than it
really Is. Among these novelties may be
found the crepe de chine fichus, which are
very much liked for wearing over silk
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pattern is the sportsman" fichu, shaped
IN front like waistcoat, opening IN front
en- chdle, and prettily draped at the back.
1t is made or of white or light-colored
Grape, anG edged with Valenciennes lace.
For strret wear we are to have an end
less variety of wooden goods. Satin is go
ing out of favor for trimming heavy ma
terIals, and velvet and gros grain silk will
replace it. Strai ruffies headed by bands
of velvet, or folds of the material and
velvet. A skirt trimmed five bias folds
edged with velvet of deeper shade, with
| half bow and knot at regular intervals in
the folds. strikes US as quite unique. An
upper-skirt, short in front and dropping
behind. A basque with long points in
'front.' and small flowing sleeves, and q
gay hat trimmed with blue velvet, and
Frou-frou gauze completed the costume.
1t is pleasant to read in a reliable for
eign paper devoted to fashions, that it is
| Lot Indispensable that each and every
over-skirt should be a regulated length.
| The long women are entitled to a deeper
skirt than the short ones, and when this
idea gets well circulated, it is to be hoped
there will be no more little women dressed
in lengths quite unsuited to their figures.
Under-skirts of velvet, in spite of the ex-
| treme warm weather, are seen under ca
saques of crepe de chine, and finest India
muslin. More suitable are those of black
| silk, rufhed with the material, or trimmed
with plisSes of grenadine, which look light
| and eoOt