, 1873-06-01
The Multifarious Batiste e---Ame merican
=. Goods Palmed OF as j..
Foreign.
.Algerine, and White Grena-
dines---charming
Dresses. -.
Recent 1mportations, and Redin'
gotes.

bound, aud arc enduring summer-heat befor
wo have really laid aside our cloaks. We've n,
right to complain, though; for all the weather
wise and otherwise have predicted early an
long-continued summer. On the whole, it i
rather agreeable to feel slight moisture or
hands and face. arising from natural causes
since We have been 80 long condemned to arti
fcial heat. Last Thursday, your correspondent
had, aud thoroughly enjoyed, a coal-fre in the
grate; and to-day every window is open, and I
muslin gown would be comfortable. ALL this
however, is only condrmatory OF my remarks q
few weeks ago in regard to the uselessness OF
preparing any sort Of spring clothing. It il
wiser far to begin on cambria as aoon as you
cease to make cashmere, and 20 succeed in being
ready for one season. BatiBte, which should be
called
| PRorEAN GOODS,
Is the fayorita Btur OF the hour. It is sometimes
silk and linen, sometimes cotton and linen,
sometimes all linen, and sometimes all cotton.
It includes in its variety almost every kind OF
cloth adapted to the next two or three months,
Generally. it is reasonable in price, Of good
width, and the dealers say it is fast driving gren-
adine (colored mean, for black ia standard ar
ticlo) out Of the market. The batiates come in
all the shades commonly known as ecru, and
have satin stripes Of silk, satin stripes Of Inen
lace stripes, polka-dots in silk, linen and tufted
dots III WOOL These are all intended for polo
naises and oVerdresse8 above silk skirts or skirts
Of the Game in plain goods. So many new stnffa
appear expressly for polonaises as
rather to decide the ve1ed question whether
they will or will not last another year. Besides,
there are moro now and pretty polonaisa-p pat
terms than there are uppcr-ekirts wherefore
jaPons will, probably, have to retire to the back
ground.
One more device in batiste forgot to men
on,-that is, pnttern-suits, imported with the
trimming Of heavy white embroidery, all ready
to so on. model q picture OF the suit 1nade)
for the costume ia attached, and they are very
pretty. and not very dear-322 dress. There
are not many OF these dresses, and for that
reason they will probably be popular.
Many Bo-called linen costumes are really
batiste whose superior lghtnesa and GOODNESS
have commended it greatly. Tho suits are gen.
orally trimmed with fne pipings Of white or Ma
poleon-bluo linen, and occasionally with brown
and black. The season has been so late that
trade has been extremely dull, and glut OF
summer dresses having accumulated on the
very reasonable standpoint When whole suit
Of Linen, or batiste, Or lawn can be purchased
for from 80 to 515, and bo entirely satisfactory,
one has no right to complain Of high rates.
Napoleon,btuo linen, about which thore was
so much talk early in the spring. has not proved
a SUCCESS. The color is SO dark and SO dead az
to MAKE even very fair skins look dull and SAL
1ow,-a result no woman is ANXIOUS to attain. I
believe it washes we'll; but Us other things wash
except tho onovelty-bewitched, viii purchase it.
It is noticeable lud pleasing fact that the |
daintiest and most graceful doaigns in pcrcales !
and caicos are on the American goods. Dones..
quality OF late that they deserve tho highes: !
praise. Many lovely cambria and lawn. which |
bears n foreign mark in the shops, is really the !
product of some busy New England city.
so christened suppose. because it has some-
thing Oriental about it's an odd stuff OF silk,
spun and raw. It has alternate bayadere stripes
Of the spun silk and rough ones Of the raw, and
looks us if it would hold together about, Ave
and the price from $s to $3.50 yard. The
co1ors are chiefly white and very pale
tints, bordering on no color at al,
though it sometimes has dashes Of bright
Naturally, this is mainly used for the polonais
over bright-hued skirts for evening. and, il one
Gould feel any security OF its not falling imme-
liately into Thousand tags, it would be charm
stripe, wreathed with delicate brocaded vine,
and is particularly suitable for caniage-wraps,
# the bu1nous description, for very warm days
It will not bear trimming. other than hand
,nti-e fitness, may be simply hemmed like tha
'edingotes- !,
WHITE GRENADINES,
wen more seductive than usual, are extensively
made into evening dresses for the spas and sea-
hore. Women are growing tired Of paying
nore for having mualins done up than was |
he original cost of the gowns, and are
aking refuge in the materials that do not
iced subsection to the laundry, and that are
eally better adapted to tho coolnass Of the
light-air. Nothing is prettier than flowing robes
Il muslin, il you do not care what you spend for
hem; but their price in the beginning ia but q
mali part Of the total expense Of wearing them.
4 CHARMING DISEER-DREss,
+ crepe de Chine and grenadine, was composed /
q this wise: The. skirt was OF rose-colored ,
repe, demi-train, and had two side-plaited / .
ounces ton inches wide each headed BY piped
and Of the crepe With standing plating two
dine, with broad brocaded satin stripe, also I
'hite. It WAS very bouffant, and the >
ufrs were caught up by long sprays
t wild roses and leaves: The waiat
n fods n'e sdesd "Ta NTH 71enesnnss sas R
ottom Of the polonaso had only two-inch
em.. Tho sleeves we're flowing from the elbow, :
nd q bunch Of roses and leayes hold the fu1lnoss
! one large p1eat ut the back
AN EVENING DRESS i J
white grenadine had d deui-train skirt, COW
yed with bins rufaes to the waist behind, aud !
> the knee in front. Each rutle was finished
= q light white fringe, two inches wide, which 8
ho apron had fringe twice the width of that !
n tho 1ounces, headed by three pipings OF white
attn, half an inch apart. The waist was cut in 9
single deep point before and behind, and !
orded with ? single satin cord. 4 biaa
nled at the under-arm seams and I
10 front point WIS trimmed with the same