Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-05-14
TIE SPRING FASHIONS.


DREN's ''FAsHIONs''-HAIR DRESSING.
&c., &C., &c.
II is only that III the last week Spring
has made its appearance sufficiently pro-
nounced to make inquiry general as to
what is to be worn in this charming sea-
son sacred to- birds and flowers and pneu-
monia; but the female portion Of the
VINDICAToR's audience have been alive
to the necessity of making up for the long
delay, ana the ladies are as actively engaged
in rummaging the dry goods and millinery
houses as the urgent necessity of the oc-
casion requires. That they may all know
what other people are to wear we give be-
low carefully prepared article on the
spring and summer fashions from the pen
of a writer well qualified in every respect
for the task:
FOR MORNING COSTUMES
nothing is SO pretty as the lawns, CAM
brics, and even calicos which are displayed
in such profusion in all the stores. They
are more stylish when trimmed with bias
bands of the same than when the lace pat
exceedingly common. These goods can be
! bought from 10 cents togo cents per yard.
| Linen lawns and Batiste will be much
worn for morning and travelling-they are
very stylish and comfortable. The favor
| tie trimming is knife pleatings and bias
| folds of same material bound with white,
| OF, sometimes, a shade darker than the
| Dress An excellent quality of this mate
rial can be bought for 50 cents per yard.
| For more expensive dresses the
FASHIONABLE coLoRs
are browns and grays, and other colors
! tblack being no color seldom appear save
as trimmings.
There are dozens of them, and they are
of every conceivable tint which can pos
I sibly be classed under either head. By far
| the greater number of new suits are of two
OF more shades combined, and monotone
dresses are the exception.
A favorite combination is of plaid with
solid color; the basque and overskirt of
the one, the sleeves and lower skirt of the
other.
For instance, a walking dress of fine
| soft debage. so much worn, has the cuirass
basque and long Empress overskirt of
shaded brown plaid and the underskirt of
plain goods in a darker shade. A pompa-
dour square, shirred into puffs and edge
by knife-pleating, trimmed the basque;
and a shirred putting. two inches
wide, extended from shoulder to wrist:
along the outer seam of the coat-sleeye.
A similar putting rmed an epaulet and
the sleeve was finished at the hand by a
-pleating. These trimmings were
one of the solid brown, d piping of which
edged the basque and oyerSkirt. The plaid
founce on the lower skirt had knife
pleating of brown Oh the lower edge, and
was shirred at the top by six (6) rows O:
gathering stitches half an inch apart.
with the spaces between pulled up sharply
DRESS TRIMMING.
The promise of simplicity in making ul
has not been kept, and handsome materi
ais are cut up into an infinite number Of
intricate trimmings. Everything is shir
red and knife pieated. The new shirrine
is exactly like that on the sun-bonnets OF
our grand mothers, in which the cambria
was drawn into puffs by cords over into
castings. and the latest pleating is so fine
that it appears as if crimped. Pleate(
hounces are usually narrow and have the
upper half held fiat, while the lower edge
sets out like a full ruffie. The trimming
of the skirts of suits is usually alike al
, around. At a recentopening of fashion
able furnishing house in New York nearly
all the dresses had narrow knife-pleateC
rnffie around the foot, whatever might bt
D | the trimming above. The overskirts were
all OF some form of the tablier OF apron.
| Many dresses had no oyer5kirts at all
; making up for the lack by elaborate pleat
ngs and shirfings on the front hreadtps
f Sashes matching the dresses are well-nigl
f an established fashion.
A new tablier is Of shirred Horizontal
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4 front breadths with the execution of ;
: anticipating at the bottom; this is pref
lilly made of PLAIN gray silk, while the sasl
has reverse or fringed overskirt of striped
silk The basque is striped, and til,
sleeves are plain and shirred down the out
side seam. Very pretty summer silks car
be bought for from IS cents to 81 50 PEE
yard, according to quality
SPECIMEN SUITS.
! An elegant black silk was trimmed will
, thread lace and the new moss gimp, kline
of ruching of crimped silk floss.
Polonaises are still seen-in deed they
are too useful and economical ever to bt
| given up1Dut basqUes and overskirts art
preferred.
One specially distinguished looking suit
and something entirely new, was silver.
gray silk serge, trimmed with gray silk in
tiny check. The overskirt was four full
straight breadthS of serge, stitched together
with the centre seam down the middle OF
the front, where nine rows of gathered
stitches third of an inch apart, drew it
into scant, fat, old-fashioned gauging.
Two short darts filed the front to the
fingers at the wrist, and another shirring
twice as wide, and with the threads hall
an inch apart was on each hip. A piping
: of checked silk bordered the overskirt, and
two more wide shirrings drawn up close
over behind where it came together. In
front this unique apron came below the
| knees, in the toua1aere it was only twelve
inches deep. a wide sash of checked silk.
! in loups and ends, fell from beneath it at
the back.
The trimmings On the lower skirt con-
sisted Of two narrow pleatings of gray
serge, headed by bias band Of the silk
shirred into a putting by cords run into
castings. each edge forming a ruffie, and
the whole putting some four inches wide:
this extended entirely around the skirt,
AID above it on the back breadths were two
krife-pleated founces in addition, each
four inches wide. The basque had a vest
of gray serge in front and the back was of
the same material, laid In perpendicular
pleats. meeting down the centre seams
and forming d kind of half open fan to
| which the plain check silk side forms
were sewed. The sleeve was Of gray serge,
with knlfe-pleatings Of same around the
| hand, and sash and bow OF silk above this
! pleating. A shirred putting like that on
| the skirt covered the junction Of serge and
silk OH the basque, and bows of check silk
were at the throat and belt. Turnover
collar of check silk, within which pleat-
| ing of crepe Iisse was worn.
One of the prettiest plaid suits has
plain skirt of soft gray serge with simple
bias plaid founce held by six rows of shr-
the plain gray. The plaid and gray over
skirt is very deep, straight around and
open I'D the back, ovef 3 second all Of
nlaid that is attached to the lower skirt.