The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-05-06
ON THE FASHIONS.

The prospects for the season are
cheering; dry goods are getting cheaper
every day, and dress materials were
never prettier. The stores look gay
with summer goods, and the counters
blooming like parterres with their
bright covering of grenadines and Or
candies on which all the flowers that
blow are glowing. Summer silks will
be much worn, and come in narrow
stripes and delicate patterns, very good
quality, for a dollar and half yard.
The trimmings are so profuse and the
overskirts SO popular, that ladies need
be under no apprehension that their
dress, even at that price, will be dis
gracefully cheap The present style
happily averts such calamity. Dresses
of two or three shades Of one color
promise to be fashionable. We have
seen some that looked very elegant, and
again we have seen some that didn't.
As an unsophiscated country friend OF
ours remarked, on seeing one Of them,
she guessed they couldn't match the
silk, but it was very good patchwork.
White continues as poplar as it was
last year, and will be worn in every
STYLE and in every material from the
sheerest muslin to the heaviest pique
Jet Jewelry, it is said, will be worn with
these white dresses.
At Taylors and our other principal
stores, there are some cheap goods
which are both pretty and desirable for
children. Among these are the alpaca
lustres and chale de LANES, the Scotch
ginghams, and wash poplins equally
cheap. Lawn dresses, with their tiny,
childish patterns, are just the thing for
little folks, and pique, either white or
corn color is always in good taste
Very pretty sleeveless sacks and SUM-
merry looking mantles have made their
appearance, some made Of black silk or
rich lace and others Of the same mater
ial as the suit Elaboration is the vice
Of the day, and trimming upon trim
ming is the rule in dresses or sacks.
Flounccs with fiuted edges and tluted
headings and putting confined with
rufled borders are
"ISIp,pIer .M,mda,n to the last degree
and not worth second look ora second
thought. TO attract attention now,
trimmings must, without a figure OF
speech, defy description. Therefore it
is safe to infer that the flowing, untrim-
med skirts will soon be in fashion.
The rage for white dresses which
brought embroidery and lace into such
general use still continues, and Ofcourse
the demand for these articles remains
undated, for as trimming to white
dresses nothing can compete or even
compare with them. There is an arts
tic beauty and refined elegance about
them which no other trimming can
boast Moreover, there is this to be
said for them, that tlOunces and tucks,
instead of supcrscding them, only afford
additional opportunities for their use
At Rhodes we saw some exquisite filmy
laccs and delicate emhroidcrics intended
for trimming, flung with studied care
lcssnesS over richly-tinted satins, which
threw out the intricate patterns with
wonderful clcarness and distinctncss
We said that these white dresses defy
description; nevertheless, we shall try to
give our readers an idea of what may
be termed simple, though very com
prehcnsive, dress. The muslin was of
the most delicate texture, the skirt
flounccd almost to the waist and each
houncc was bound with a fold of pale
blue silk, on which the Nalencicnnes
edge showed to perfection. Be
tween each hounce was row
Of the finest embroidery, lined
with pale blue silk, and bordercd with
IL small cluster of tucks. The sleeves
To the elbow were alternate puffS and
bands Of embroidery, and from the
elbow deep ruiilc bound and edged to
correspond with the skirt depended.
The corsage was made like the sleeves,
and the sash and bow instead OF being
formed of blue silk, were made of mus
lin and bound with blue, A row Of the
embroidery lined with blue, was in
serted about an inch from the edge, and
the effect was airer and more elegant
Law far thon tho richest sill, SoSh