New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-29
The Style il Which Women Dress.
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Republican. we copy the following:
At the counters of our large stores piles
of rich dress goods disappear before lady
shoppers, who purchase with a readiness
and ease truly astonishing. taken in cOnnec-
ton with the fact that Messrs. A, and
G are running their legs of to meet notes
and stave off payments. | know a gentle
man so deeply involved in business diff
Guilty that nothing but stroke OF lightning
will save him from bankruptcy the first of
May il he manages to bridge over till then.
Yet the wife of his bosom bought three new
suits at Arnold & Constablc's this week,
varying in price from So to 5000, which
looks vastly like economy
Speaking of suits. l have seen two very
pretty ones this week, made by one of our
high priced men -milliners. The first was of
siivergr Irish poplin A knee-deep tiounce
was headed by piped bands. and narrow
upright ruit1e also piped with satin. The
polonalse was long as an over-dress in
front, going over to the hips. where it was
plated up to half the length, and two i'm
mense scarf ends. yard and a quarter
long, attached. The back part was merely
a square basque ten inches deep. Three
breadths of silk Ia yard and more long,
were plated Oh to a belt that passed under
the basque-back, falling over upon the front:
ID large hole in the silk on each side of this
three-breadth apron piece admitted the
passage OF the big scart-end from the under
side. The plain breadths were tied up high
on each seam, and the scarf ends loosely
knotted and fastened midway the skirt
pehlnd. The holes were trimmed with
plplngs and rulings where the ends went
through ana the whole back arran cement
was 1rln9ed with deep twist and satin piped
folds above. 1t was a very nice Gown. and
cost 9?oo-sI3 or $50 for the material, ard
The balance Tor the style The second was
tea-color, silk at Sc a ward The
ilounces, three, were straight. Alta distance
OF one inch from the edge, tie threads were
drawn out for the space OF two inches
The SIX was then turned over, forming a
loop fringe OF the raveled silk orc MI
deep, hemmed by hand very peatlr Tho
ilounces edged this very even. about six az.
eight inches deep-boX-p !aited-and al the
head OF each plated trimming eacl, eIre
frayed and hcnmed and fIinged the same
way, making messy mass of featberv
rosettes, very pretty. But, O Lord, the
work Some poor girl must have pulled
threads all winter, and been buried this
spring in rawlings The dress cost an i'm
mense sum, and used up nearly forty yards
OF silk
Striped silks are again the rage, aud the
black and gray ones make stylish, inexpen-
slve dresses. A very good quality can be
purchased at 81 or s. p per yard-narrow,
to be sure, but thirty yards build scrump-
tlous gown, and they require no trimming
but Tom Thumb fringe at 81 80 a dozen.
so the actual facts Of spring suit
are not so narrowing. 1t is the dress
makers services that alter the case. l
nave arrived at the conclusion that it is
lar cheaper and much easier to go to
one OF our first class stores for cheap
or medium priced costume as well as for a
magnificent robe of foreign extraction. AT.
ter lady buys twenty-five or thirty yards
OF popilh az :: yard, five or six yards Of
fringe or passamenterie for another $l2 or
SD, pays dressmaker So to make it, and