Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-07-15
Black and COI0red Grenadine Dresses.

Black and COI0red Grenadine Dresses.
/ FRENCH lace is used more than any
thing else for trimming black grenadine
dresses this summer. Such quantity of
lace is required for the basque, sleeves
and over-skirt that ladies are not willing
to buy expensive thread lace and have it
endure the hard usage that comes to black
grenadlne dreSses-the standard dress of
the summer. Moreover, the French laces
initiate real thread laces so admirably
even copying their irregular meshes-that
1t IS impossible to detect them except by
touch. Next to laces, fringeS OF most in
trlcate and fanciful design are chosen.
These make a change from the self-trim-
mlngS that have been so long used. and
| are still retained for lower skirts, though
they are not effective in the plaid check.
damask and MeXicaine grenadines that
have superseded plain canvas grenadine.
| The most popular patterns are small, open
checks, and the larger blocks fourth of
an inch in size; those with plain stripes
alternating with checked are also stylish.
1t is an unusual thing to find lower skirts
made of grenadine. They are almost in
variably silk, and the fiounces may also
be silk if the skirt is needed for other
suits, but very many have shirred and
| knife-pleated grenadine founces mounted
on silk
| Another fashion is that of shirred silk
tiounces deliberately trimmed with grena-
| dine pleatings. The grenadine over-skirt
for very dressy costumes is deliberately
shirred, caught up with Iong-looped bows
of the repped silk called turquoise, and
edged with frill of lace The basque is
grenadine laid smoothly over gros grain
! like that used for the skirt, without other
lining, and abundantly trimmed with lace
on the edge, down the front and back in
| jabOts, around the neck, and on the wrists.
Simpler toilets of grenadine have merely
a basque and deep apron of any of the
plaid or matelasse patterns, edged with
knife pleatings of silk, and worn over the
| black silk skirt of some other costume
/ The season of grenadines is so short in
| this climate that economy is desirable in
| getting them up. Nine or ten yards of
grenadine are sufficient for the dress Just
described. Very pretty qualities are
found in narrow widths, of mixed silk
and wool, for $1.3715 or $3.50 a yard
The deep round over-skirts of the simple
shape that has SO long been popular are
worn with these dresses, as they conceal
ali the untrimmed part of the silk skirt
worn with them; others more fanciful
have deep apron, with a back breadth
caught up in a row Of putfs, and edged
with knife-pleatings Of silk Little fichus
Of grenadine edged with lace or fringe are
seen on imported grenadine dresses. Vel
vet-barred grenadine over a skirt of black
velvet, and also velvet sleeves, make a
rich dress that will not be considered too
heavy for August at the seaside and at
fashionable watering places.
COlored grenadines and Mexicaines will
! be more worn this summer than they have
| been of late. Dark navy-blue grenadine
in small square meshes is almost as pop
ular as black. 1t is made up over silk of
the same color in the way just described
for black grenadine, and is trimmed with
crimped tape fringe. There are also many
! pretty costumes of gray grenadine over
! silk, some of which have jacket of the
grenadlue pointed and loose in front,
opening over q vest and close-ftting be-
hind; fringe is the trimming. Dark blue
/ silk is sometimes associated with gray
! grenadine as foundation, forming
| sleeves, vest and skirt. Ecru MeXicaine
retains it's popularity and is worn over
nut brown and over blue silk as it was
| last summer. Expensive patterns are
! barred with black or with brown velvet
| There are, however, bargains in these ecru
| shades and also in higher-colored plaid
grenadines, to be had for 81 a yard
Pretty summer toilets are made with
| basques and over-skirts of plaid grena-
dine, shaded gray, barred with rose, blue,
or crimson, while the sleeves and lover
skirt are of gray silk. The plaid is more
| effective if cut bias. Ladies who have in
their wardrobes partly-worn silks of dust
| brown, ashes-of- roses, French gray, violet,
OF chestnut brown can make fresh sum
mer toilets Of them by buying ten yards
of these new plaid grenadines and making
them up in this simple manner.-H0rp61'S
| B0z0r