The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-05-06
FASHIONS OF THE SEASON.
A Chat With the Ladies, About What
to Wear And How to wear it.

Dear reader, we are all ahoat as to
where to begin telling you OF all-no,
not all, for that would fill book, but of
even a moiety of all-in Fashions realm
that has been presented to our gaze In
the week that has passed.
Everybody is going "aheck wild,
and If there is one in all these wild PEG
pie that have not suit already made, or
in preparation, of plain and check
combination, we pity them. for very
miserable they must be.
The skirt proper is of plain material
either gray or brown dehege, of camel's
hair, this being trimmed with a deep
Hounce of checks in the same color, but
lighter or darker shades; this, in turn,
is headed with a puff gagged to form
two rules Zone at either edge,) and
above on the back widths is still anoth-
er founce of less depth, and a second
puff and ruffles. The over skirt is usu
ally of the check, but sometimes of the
plain. In that case, it is edged with a
bias band of the check. The sleeves are
invariably of the plain, with either
bands of the check, Or two quite deep
hounces- nearly reaching to the
elbow, the other falling over the hand,
and between them bias band of the
check. The sleeveless basque is of the
check is quite short, and square in
front, and ends in pleated postillion at
the back. This can be trimmed with
two narrow rufies, gagged through the
centre or simply piped.
These suits are generally liked, they
being selected in the most subdued col
ors, having nothing of fashy look
about them.
Black cashmere aprons and basques,
either with a full trimmed cashmere
skirt, or to be worn over silk skirt,
will lead with those of quiet tastes, who
make black their street costumes all the
seasons of the year.
Black cashmere can be worn on cool
II until grenadine is brought out.
Never in Fashions history has grena-
dine been the dress of the day SO fully
as it Will be this season; and, too, we
have so great variety. Once, the iron
frame, in it's different grades, constituted
all that was known of this fabric; now
we have it in forms of cotton and wool,
silk and wool, with silk checks, with
moir stripes, with heavy wool stripes,
and, not least, stripes of grenadlne and
velvet.
The greatest novelty in this fabric is
the lengths that come for over dresses,
beautifully embroidered with seed jets.
The saques that we have so often
spoken of as the latest, come to US in
beautifully embroidered goods-cash
mere or drap d'ete-and, that too, by
hand They are both made and I'M
made: but we recommend those at a
distance buying the unmade, as they
are blocked out, SO it's impossible to
mistake the form of them, and then they
can be fitted SO nicely. The favorite
trimming for these sacques is French
thread lace, costing about 1926 to S.
per yard and the sacques range from
$40 to $40 the pattern.
IT'S said the fashionable suit for sum-
mer jauntings, picnicing, &C., will be OF
Scotch gingham-not the kind we US
ually find under that name, but real
Scotch stuff, costing rs or 80 cents per
yard, and the kind that was never known
to wear out.
Another style of overskirt, that we
should have mentioned in connection
with dresses, is a long apron, shirred on
the sides on to another long, draped
skirt at the back. The back is open,
and trimmed half way down in the back,
and finished with a finely shirred band
down the short side seam, finished at the
there are three clusters of bows down
the front.
Unbleached linen will, Of course, he
the real travelling suit, and now that one
can buy beautiful bands of embroidery,
by the yard, of linen in its different
shades, and wrought with it's self color,
or white, or blue, for the low price of
30 cents per yard, and when a founce
on the skirt, headed by one of these
bands, or the skirt is trimmed with
three bands of it, and the oyer-skirt and
basque each edged with band, we
think the demand for so lovely and eco
nomical costumes viii be universal.
This new trimming is lovely for trim
ming children's clothes, and is so little
trouble to put on, so little trouble to
laundry that we recommend it to all as