The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-04-19
New Fabrics for Dresses.

A fine half transparent material called
gazeline barege is made of pure llama wool
of very hight quality. 1t is Like beige in
appearance. though much finer, and is In
dark rich colors instead OF the natural
brown and gray mixtures of debeige. tits
especially admired in navy blue, made
up with silk and trimmed with galloon
and fringe it is also shown in myrtle
green, nut brown and tilleul. 1t meas.
ures thirty inches in width, and costs
seventy-fve cents yard. The woolen
suits necessary at the sea side and nice
travelling dresses will be made OF this
fabric. Bunting resembles it in appear
ance, but is more stiff and wiry. Another
wool tissue also to be used for travelling
dresses is shot with colors showing
Knickerbocker effects by having rough
threads of dark shade raised on the
smoothest surface. .All-wool bourrette
is shown for similar costumes, and is
more expensive. It has raised figures
of tiny leaves or flowers, or perhaps only
dashes of color. The price is Sl.25 q
yard for goods nearly thirty inches wide.
Sea side grenadine is all of pure wool
in lace-like open patterns and in mate
lasse designs. This will be much used
for the country, travelling, mountains
and also for town wear later in the fall.
It is shown in ecru, tilleul, navy blue,
gray and green, and is to be made up in
combination with silk, or the entire
dress may be of the grenadine $1.25 a
yard is the price. Cobweb cloth is a
novelty this season. It seems made up
of threads of loose zephyr wool tied in
diamond figures with silk. This pretty
lace like fabric is soft and thin yet
strong, and is shown in olive, bronze,
tilleul, light blue and ecru shades. 1t is
double width, and only four or five yards
are required for an over dress. The
dress beneath must be Of silk. This will
be used for watering place dresses. Drap
de Medine is an oriental stuff in bayadere
stripes with alternate lines of silver-col-
ored silk and wool. Mecca gauze is
another wool fabric with Knickerbocker
shreds and dashes. The genuine Knick-
srbocker goods of wool of very light
quality for early spring wear are shown
in cream, navy blue, myrtle green, gray,
brown and ecru, with cardinal red.
New silk goods are soft, like raw silks
thinly woven they come in irregular
stripes, dashes of color in knotted
threads, brocaded lines, and in fish scale
patterns in Turkish and Persians colors,
showing much olive and bronze, and
quaint green shades oddly combined
with blue and gray and cream color.
They cost s. yard, and measure twenty
seven inches in width. Mixtures Of silk
and wool show similar designs in larger
figures and broader stripes. These be-
in at 81. % a yard and go up to 50.
Colored percale bands, embroidered in
colors in regular Hamburg work, arc
imported for trimming the fine dark per-
Gales and Scotch ginghams. The pcrcale
is myrtle green. navy blue or seal brown,
and the embroidery is i'll self colors ant
white. They are two or three inches
wide, ard cost fifty to sixty-five cents
yard. Fine Scotch percales without
glaze are imported in these dark colors
for dresses to be trimmed with this EN-
bnidery. To trim white muslin dresses
for summer is the new Fayeux openwork
in Renaissance designs, that are said to
be copied from antique church lace.
This costs from s1.25 to 50. 75 yard.