The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-28
FASHION NOfEs.

checks.
Spring prints and percales are in all the
delicate tints, such as pale buff pale tea,
Chinese blue and green, and pale lead and
ash colors.
Sulphur color now replaces all the differ
ent shades of yellow lately in vogue Ivory
white and caroubier form beautiful COM
bination.
The new spring woolens are the frst i'm
portations displayed. Thew are soft and
yielding, and though of pure wools have
scarcely more weight than the sheerest
cambria
A new and useful philopena present for a
gentleman to give a lady is gold hairpin.
Almost every lady prefers a hairpin as
glove buttoner to any patent that has been
invented.
Lace pins for fastening the lace scarf at the
throat are slender arrows daggers bars or
whips, sometimes of pale yellow gold only,
while others are enameled or studded with
precious stones.
1t is almost impossible to make the bodice
too high in the throat for the present fash
ion. The sleeves to high bodice are very
narrow, but are cut so as to be slightly
wider at the wrist than elsewhere.
English calicoes are commended for morn
ing wrappers. These come in dark green
grounds dotted with white in checks. or
plaids of one color with white, or in two
darker colors, or in stripes an inch wide
made mp of hair stripes OF various colors.
The cool, fresh looking Scotch ginghams
reappear in characteristic cross bars checks
plaids, and stripes. Rose with blue is
fayorite combination of colors in this ma
terial, and is shown in all designs. There
are also the usual gray and blue mixtures
drab and scarlet, and great deal of green or
blue with white. There is no better wear
ing material among all wash goods than
these ginghams which claim to be Scotch
but are evidently French; they cost 81 cents
a yard. They will be made up in princesse
dresses for the house, and in simple polon-
aises or basques with round oyer-skirt6.
The princeses basque with tablier skirt is
popular for the house and street alike. On
bright days the velvet basque is sufficient
for warmth, but in colder weather and for
driving wrap is added The basque is
fitted by two darts in the marrow front and
an under-arm gore; this gore extends far
toward the back, and its outlines are curved
to correspond with those of the side form of
the back, making the appearance of the two
side forms and the ample array of seams
that is now considered stylish. The fronts
are made of velvet and are nearly
concealed with series of upturned silk
folds that have no darts, and are really
plastron. The back is of velvet. with a
side body beginning in the armhole and
pretty flap turned toward the middle, and
very like those on position jackets, riding
habits and English walking coats A row of
buttons is on each of these flaps; there may
be only six buttons in the row, or there may
be dozen, Tapped at the edges in the
Breton fashion. There is no fullness in the
back of the basque, and to be stylish it
should fit the hips as if moulded upon them,
and should be perfectly plain across the
tournure, which is now too small to be
spoken of as tournure. The collar is a re-
| verse formed of the folds of the silk The
bows down the front are long looped, and
are set on trifie diagonally. The tablier is
a simple square apron in its outlines, and is
formed entirely of folds with loops and
bows. M 81. ..t.. -,...,.,f, .,.tt ~.
Some simple check or striped silks of thin
make can be washed in a lather made with
hot water and curd soap, allowed to become
| nearly cold before it is used, Only the
worstp should be rubbed: the rest should
be pressed and dabbed in the water in the
same manner as lace, then rinsed. in luke
warm water, pinned out TO dry and ironed
with muslin or paper between the iron and
the silk. The most satisfactory method of
cleaning brocaded silks at home is to use
stale bread crumbs or mixture of bread
crumbs and powdered blue; but it is far bet
ter to send these, as well as all rich makes
of silk, to the professional cleaner. If made
limp in cleaninga sponge, dipped in isinglass
and water, should be applied TO the back
of the material to stiffenit, Black silks can
be cleaned in variety OF ways-by spong-
ing carefully with any kind of spirit. such
as whisky, spirits of wine, gin (unsweetenedl
| or with cold tea or coffee well strained), or
| with ammonia and water (either liquid or
lump ammonia may be used; if the latter,
piece the size of a walnut dissolved in a
small basin OF hot water; also with water in
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handful to a quartz have been boiled; or
with potato water, made by grating II pota-
toes into quart of water and allowing it
to stand. If the silk be very dirty it should
be scrubbed with the potato water, or with.
ox-gall and water. Black silk
renovated by being sponged with
either of the following preparations:
! |. Tie one ounce of black tea in a piece of
muslin and boil it with teaspoOnful of
common gum fifteen minutes. 2. Boil two
pairs of old black kid gloves in two pints of
water until they are nearly dissolved, then
strain the liquid. Black silk that has become
brown and very shabby may be boiled in a
decoction of small quantity of logwood in
water. In all cases the silk must be ironed
with paper or muslin over it, as the iron
must never come in direct contact with the
fabric; if stiffness is desired, damp it previ-
ously with gum water. in which gin or
brandy is mixed. These receipts apply
| equally well to black and colored ribbons.
Tassore, foulard, or any soft kind of white
or colored silk, may be washed with bran
instead of SOAP, "A lukewarm lather
of yellow soap. without soda or washing
powder, will also serve for washing tassore,
which must be rinsed, shaken out and hung
up to dry, but while still damp must be
rolled in cloth and ironed on the wrong
side. 1t must on no. account be sprin-
killed., as every spot shows. White and coli
ored OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES can be washed and
ironed in the same way, but when snuff has
been used they must be previously soaked