Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-30
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
Holiday Dresses.

Holiday Dresses.
Full-dress toilettes for Christmas
parties and new years day receptions
are being prepared by the modistes,
and merchants are displaying the rich
est fabrics for such dresses. Soft
richly repped gros grains called faille
are most used for these dresses These
are of very delicate hues, but of
deeper and more positive tone than
the fade tints of last winter. Perhaps
the greatest variety of shades is shown
in the flesh pink that is now fashion
ably worn both by brunettes and
blondes. This soft, charming color is
trimmed with white lace, tulle, or
crepe isse, or else the plain faille is
associated with brocade of the same
watered stripe. The blue for evening
wear has silvery sheen that requires
gas-light to deepen and bring it out
fully. Green fables are of the pale
clear tint called crystal. Tea-rose is
still favorite shade when worn with
some deep rich color, such as brown
or garnet. Pearl, lavender and mauve
tints complete the list of evening col
ors. These fables cost from s. to 81 a
yard. are richly repped, yet soft and
pliable.
Richly brocaded silks of single
color are imported to match the plain
gros grains just described. These bro
cades are seldom used for an entire
dress, but form parts of it; for instance,
the basque, apron, or trained Over-skrt
will be of brocade, with sleeves and
lower shirt of plain gros grain, or per-
haps of Chambery gauze. The fabric is
not the stiff heavy brocade once worn by
dowagers, but is of yielding texture,
and Grapes beautifully. Price SIS. s.
PoMPADoUR BRooADEs. .2
Among beautiful novelties are the
Pompadour brocades for court trains or
for tabliers, or else petticoats under
quaint Japanese colors and figures, with
pale pink, blue, or green grounds, bro
caded with soft pink, blue, or green
grounds, brocaded with soft raised
figures that look like chenille EN-.
broidery. White Pompadour brocades
are exceedingly handsome with their
creamy white grounds strewn with flow
ers in their natural colors-viOlets, rose.
buds, mignonette and, Jaears-de-lis, In
large long -stemmed clusters tied with 8
ribbon of blue. These are 81 a yard
and are worn with vest, sleeves, and
petticoat Of pale blue or rose velvet.
wATERED STRIPED FA1LnE.
MORE or watered striped fables are OF
a single shade, and show alternate
stripes two or three inches wide of plain
repped failles and of beautiful MORE
designs. These are made into elaborate
poloDaises, princesse dresses, cuirasses,
and aprons, edged with side plait-
ings of plain faille, lace, or else flower
fringe, and worn with train of plain
faille. The white striped moires are
also being used for the bridesmaids
toillettes. They cost from $3.50 to
$3.50 yard.
NEW BRIDAL DRESSES.
Creamy white ana pearl white fables
are both shown for wedding dresses,
but the preference is for the former.
The prices range from 81 to $40 yard.
The first quality is handsome enough
for any lady, and the finest is Of remark
able thick, heavily repped
vet pliable and soft; indeed, it is nc
longer a commentator that the silk Ii
stiff enough to stand alone. White
satins are shown in various qualities
costing from So. 80 to $40 yard.
Trains of new wedding dresses meas
ure from sixty to seventy inches II
length, which is longer than those Of or
binary evening dresses. The new ant
appropriate fashion is to adjust thi
train in a wide quadruple pleat from tn
belt down, as this smooth flowing fol-
is far prettier under a veil than an,
bunched-up over-skirt or pouf train
Three breadths of silk form this train
and the pleat is held In position b,
tapes underneath, until near the bot
tom, where it spreads out like fan
There is NO founce, of course, on thes
back breadths. A deep side pleatins
is across the foot of the front and sid
cores, and above this is a square tabller
formed by three bias bands OF silk
piped on each side, and edged below b.
tulle pleating. These cross on tn
front breadths and extend up the sid
cores to the belt, producing yer.
pretty effect. Clusters Of orange flow
ers are down the middle of this tabller
and also down the tulle jabot that trim
the box-pleat behind The basque is
long smooth cuirass with pointed necl
and antique sleeves, trimmed witt
abundant ruches of tulle around nec]
and elbows, with merely piped ban,
on the edge OF the basque. Little shell
bows of silk fasten the front, and one i
placed on the back of the waist and OF
each elbow.
Another stately wedding dress is part
~ of white gros grain and partly satin
The front or petticoat is of white satin
trimmed with two fye-inch pleatings
tapping, puff, and astanding ruffietw
nd half inches wide. Over this is