The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-09
CHIr-CHAT ON FASHIONS.

OF dealers have not been 80 iuIi iol
years, neither have goods been sold SC
low.
Robes a demi-traine would seem tc
be on the ware; it is either the grand
robe with the full train for toilets Of
ceremony, or the robe "touchant terre,
just touching the earth, for the promen'
ade. For the latter plain or finely
striped velvet, are as much il
vogue as ever. 1t is. nevertheless:
becoming the fashion to vary
these costumes with an under
jupe of satin or faye, either black or o.
the same shade, the plated founces Of
which, rising to meet the short upper
jupe, are either intersected or surmount'
ed by velvet bands. For these robes
rich, warm tints of color are usually
preferred; such, for instance, as golden
or russell browns, various shades o.
plum color, notably "prune de Mon
sieur," deep mauve, violet, and a fine
black and gold stripe.
At TayloI's we saw the handsomest
white embroidered grenadine we evel
saw. The stripes were made by an EN-
broidered gold thread running down
the dress, and in the stripes thus formed
is embroidered beautiful boquet Of
flowers These embroidered grenadines
sold, two years ago, for $3.50 to s. 90
They can now be purchased for 81 %
They can, of course, be had in varieties
of COloIs.
Suits of pique are made with an upper
skirt of simple shape, sometimes form
ing large leaves; and for an over gar
ment short, loose paletOt, more ample
than the sailor jacket of last season, but
left open half way up the seams under
the arms and in the middle of the back
Large flowing sleeves. The trimming
is slghtly-gathered strips of English
embroidery, or that which initiates
guipure designs. A heading of these
scant ruffles is made of stripes of inser'
ton, placed at intervals over wide
black velvet ribbon. Two standing
frills trim the front of the jacket in
heart shape.
A buff linen suit, made in the way
Just described, is trimmed with straight
ruffles chainstitched with black.
For white and ecru goods the trim.
mings are embroidery, psssomenterie,
pleated ruffles, with an abundance OF
black velvet ribbon, in bows, bands and
as fraisos.
The newest thing out, and the most
beautiful, is the Roman scarf, of richest
colors and with heavy border of red,
blue, gold, green and black, terminating
in a fringe. These can be had at from
s. to S25 each.
The Spring styles of shawls are very
elegant and dressy. Among these are
the Lady Washington, Formoss, Bur
nous and Bedouiu. The handsomest of
these, to our notion, is the Formosa,
which is very long, in most brilliant
colors, and reversible.
Wrappers of light striped cambria
are trimmed with pique braid or with
bias bands Of the cambria an inch wide,
edged on each side with a tiny fold of
solid colored percale. The folds are
basted on first, then the striped band is
laid on, and one row of machine stitch.
ing on each side is enough.
The ladies will be. delighted with the
new cashmere breakfast and crOQuet
Jacket. 1t is much more fashionable
than the breakfast shawl, is more tidy
and less troublesome. 1t sets hand
some figure off to good advantage.
As we stated yesterday the Eliza
bethan ruff is the rage now. We are
satisfied that these will reach huge pro-
portions before they 90 out of style.
For morning dress buff linen collar
and cuffs with white border, or white
collar and buff border, is the style.
Among the new impOrtations for
dress goods, pongees are the most de-
sirabl~; they are cool, glossy and most
serviceable, many of them washing ad
mirably; for short suit nothing can
be more stylish than gray or buff
pongee, the underskirt rHtfled, and
either trimmed in the same color or with
black; or, if fer young person, with
crimson silk; or, what is equally stylish,
a black silk uuderskirt, with the upper
one and waist of yellow pOngee, prettily
draped. The old fashioned mousseline
delaine is also being revived; this is
particularly appropriate for draped
dresses, as it falls so softly, and is mex.
pensiSe. Pongee costs one dollar and
twenty-five cents per yard. Unbleached
linens are also much sought after for
summer dress; these are in the shades of
yellow and gray, and cost one dollar
per yard. Organdies and white mus
Inns must always be popular, except for
the sea-shore, where they are of but
little use. A new way of using white
muslin is very charming, and an old
blue, green, pink, or mauve silk dress,
may be made TO look quite new by its
use. Large dounces, or pleatiDgs Of
white muslin, edged with plain
"looting," or with an excellent imita-
ton of Valenciennes, are put on the
front of the skirt, and long tunic,
trimmed in the same way, falls like a
court-train over the skirt, and is Topped
ND with bows of black velvet, or with
ribbon of the color of the dress. Some
times these muslin flounces are put on
under silk ones, reaching only a few
inches below the knee.
The fashion of wearing two skirts
may be turned to good account, how
ever, by those who possess q number Of
light colored dresses Of thin materials;
since by cutting the gored skirts shorter
they can be made fuller at the waist,
and the piece taken off the top will
form q trimming for the front of the
underskirt. A tunic or train, open in
front, displaying the underskirt very
long, and disposed in short putfs, en-
panier, at the back, with low or square
bodice, will form toilet at once fash
ionable and effective. The upper-dress
NAV be of the same color as the under
one, but always of darker shade.
So many styles are fashionable now
that it is somewhat difficult not to mix
them, aud it requires not only good
taste, but some historical knowledge to
dress well. The present fashion has
one great advantage, however, that no
woman need be unbecomingly dressed,
Whatever her means may be.
Pointed waists are obtaining favor,
not only because they are new, (Which
ia too often the recommendation to an
American woman, but because they are
so very becoming to all but very slen-