The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-11-28
FASHION FREAKS.
Jaunty Dresses at Reasonable Rates
Short skirts to be Fashionable
"Harper's Bazaar" Tells the Ladies
About Ready Made Suits.

About Ready Made Suits.
The cuirsss basque when well fitted Is
so becoming that 1t remains In favor not
withstanding other bssques nave peeh
introduced.
Among the neatest and most useful
costumes worn this winter are suits OF
lsdy's cloth OF invisible blue, green, blue
gray, or brown shades, made OF the llght
quality known at some of the leading
business houses as Genoa suitings.
There Is an especial design tor ladys
| cloth costumes, which has very Jaunty
appearance. IL consists OF cuI-away
coat, shaped precisely like gentleman S
morning coat, fastening by only two or
three buttons over vest. The coat is
sloped away below these buttons to show
the vest, and the collar rolls back so
widely that q cravat is required, or else
one of the folded scaris that were des-
cribed last week for gentlemen. There
is a seam around the waist, with pocket
welts in it, and there are flaps and but
tons behind. The over-skirt is long.
The lower skirt has invariably
deep kilt-pleating covering all the
visible part below the overklrt
and giving the effect of kilt skirt.
Short round skirts are gradually max
ing their way into popularity. They
are cut quite narrow, and are short
enough to escape the ground behind,
thus relieving the wesrer of the burden
OF lifting long walking skirt out OF the
mud or dust. A single scantily pleated
founce, or else two narrow knife P!eat-
irgs, form the plain border around the
edge.
As wooden materials are so heavy,
modjstes are making sham lower skirts
OF cambria or of alapaca for heavy WOOL
en- suits, merely trimming them with
tlounces of the wool, or else facing them
with wooden goods from the knee
down. Those sham skirts were formerly
objected to, as they were apt to be dis
PLAYED when the over-sklrt was lifted or
blown about. Now the polonaise or
over-dress is made to cling so closely
that it is never lifted, and the expense
and weight OF heavey wooden siuns
beneath it are dispensed with.
Price Of dress goods are lower this sea-
son than they have been for many years.
Ladies who do not care tor the most
snowy novelties, such IS the rough
threaded bodrettes and neslgeuse stutf5,
select the fine soft cashLneres tuat are SOLO
in excellent qualities at the popular price
of 81 yard, while very good coLoied
csshmeres are sold as low as 10 cents, and
black may be bought for 80 cents.
ka Cn,lnn n
color and in its trimmings, plain cash
mere dresses can be made very pretty
Thus the darkest shades OF green with
blue tints are made with basque and
oversklrt merely piped on the edge with
silk, and ornamented with green SIX
bows that show cardinal or else bronze
facings.
There are excellent twilled stutfs, wlry
ana strong, yet every thread OF wool, tor
sixty-fve or seventy cents yard; these
are chosen in very dark gray or seal
brown shades, or IN the gayer reddish
maroon tor serviceable suits Tor morning;
they are twenty-seven inches wldei from
eighteen to twenty yards Is required.
When only an overdress Is needed 10
wear with black, or with any dark SILK
skirt, doubled with stutts are chosen, ana
from four TO five yards is used.
Navy blue is not as popular as 1t was
last wear. Plum color is IN favor again,
especially with facings of pale blue, or OF
butt Olive, bronze, and moss green are
also frightened with cream color ana
blue.
The furnishing houses show ready
made low-priced suits for busy women
who have no leisure in which to make
their own clothing. The style of these
suits is excellent, with plain basques and
long. round overskirts that may be adjust
ed to almost any figure, or else they have
very prettily shaped polonslses. Ihey
are sold at very reasonable prices.
Long, close-ftting sscques, with
double breasted fronts, are the popular
shape Tor low-priced cIoaks. These gar
ments can be bought IN plain, sli.wool
beaver cloths Tor 81, and in nice looking
cloth, which is not all wool, and is, there
lore. neither warm nor durable, tor $3.50
Tne rough-surlaced cloths are most eX-
pensive than plals beaver, aud when
made in such sscques the prices begin at