The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-03-29
The Fashions.

AMONG the beautiful dresses of an outfit
for spring is a breakfast dress Of pale blue
basket cloth, made with a demi-train and
loose jacket trimmed with cardinal red
galloon and vice white Smyrna lace.
The best Partisan authorities announce
that there will be no decided changes in
the fashions of spring dresses, and the first
importatiOns confirm this assertion. We
find these importations to consist, first, of
suits with princesse pOlonaises, basques
with overskirts and lower skirts, and,
finally, princesse dresses.
Among features common to NEST OF the
handsome polonaises are the long seams
of the back, the plainness over the tour
nure, and sufficient length to give very
slender effect. The Byron collar is seen
on great many. Fringes and wide gal
looms are the trimmings universally used,
and the galloon is very generally arranged
in sloping lines, or else in long V down
the back from shoulders to waist.
To support the train of carriage and
house dresses sweeper or plated f1ounce
of muslin edged with imitation Valen-
clennes lace is set on the inside. 1t is
about three-eighths of yard deep, and is
set on at such a height that a glimpse of
the white lace appears below the edge of
the dress. Imported dresses are provided
with French sweepers that are made of
crinoline and muslin, and may he
changed from one dress to another.
A drawing string across the back
breadths to hold them back is the rule al
most without exception on French dresses.
anticipating still prevails on the newest
dresses. Around the bottom of the skirt
are two rows of fine anticipating, each
two inches deep when finished; above
this is flat band of gallOOn, or of bias
brocade, or of plain silk, and by way OF
heading are two upright plaitings that
in the lower plaits.
the heavy scallops wrought in color. Fol-
| In plated or gathered ruffles headed by
bias oands; there are also colored cotton
galloons for trimming such dresses.
Sprigged and figured Swiss muslin suits
made by this design will have puffs of the
material edged with lace and lined with
ribbon. Square bows will fasten the
front, and many loDg-looped bows trim
the pockets and ornament the back of the
polonaise.
| If the p0lonaise is made of washing ma
terial, it is best to omit all Innings of the
waist and sleeves, as no matter though
the dress goods and the lining are both
shrunken by being washed before
| they are made up, they are still liza
BILE to further shrinkage when washed
a second time; as the two materials are
of different quality, they will not shrink
precisely alike, and the consequence is
the outside is either drawn or wrinkled
upOn the lining. and the fitOf the garment
is spoiled. :.
The front of the princesse polonaise is
fitted by two darts, and clings as closely to
the figure as if glued upon it. Buttons
half an inch in diameter are set down the
entire front. Vegetable ivory or else
sm0ked-pearl buttons are now used on
wool, silk and cotton dresses. These
buttons are exceedingly close together,
and there is usually button hole for
each but those who are not equal to the
task Of working 80 many button holes set
the buttons on the two fronts after turning
down the hens and tapping them.
New black silk sacques are partly of
brocade and partly of plain silk, and are
trimmed with galloOn, lace, fringe and
ribbon bows. DolmaDs are thus far con-
fined to the gray and drab wool cloths al
ready described. The sacaues are half
long and of French outlines, with long
seams in the back, or else the galloon
trims the back perpendicularly. The
long slender garment of sacque shape,
with shoulder pieces giving the effect of a
dolman, is imported in summer cloths
and in black silk, and promises to be IS
popular rs it has been during the winter.
The polonaise predominates among the
plain suits of wooden stuffs for spring.
Among these are wool brocades of ecru
and brown gray quadrille and basket
woven woolens, small checked goods and
plain challis trimmed with brocaded
bands. The small pin-head checks of
black, blue or brown, with white are
made up Tor young girls suits without
any trimming except that given by rows
of machine Stitching. The skirt is plain,
with the exception Of . few kilt plaits sct
ii the back breadtbs like fan train; the
front breadths are turned up and stitched.
-Haepr's Basar.
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