The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-29

ing from the back of the neck to the
top of the kilt-plaiting, which is still
inserted low down across the back
forms, and headed by a sash and bow.
Still other princessc dresses have little
vests or else merely plastrons of velvet
or silk let in. Sometimes the upper
part of the princesse dress is cut off,
divided into slender pieces that are
ined with u lighter shade, and made
into long loops through which u sash
ribbon is passed around the figure.
This is pretty in dark blue cashmere,
showing pale blue lining in the loops,
and a pale blue silk sash tied behind in
a large bow of long soft loops. Among
the new importations is the mignonette
costume of very shaggy camel's-hair,
with plated (or tucked) princesse back,
double-brcasted front and brown
soutache for trimming. Another is the
Muscovite dress Of gray and red bourette,
with basque back and double-breasted
princesse front. A Louis Quinzc vest
dress is of pale gray bourette, with
light blue silk vest. Notified fabrics
are much used for these little dresses,
and the incest of them have inside the
skirt a plated founce of white muslin
edged with torchon lace.
The new trimming for these graceful
dresses is square or block-shaped braid,
broader than soutache, and standing out
squarely above the surface. Plain
soutache, but wider than that used for
braiding designs, is placed in parallel
rows on sidc-plaitings, two or three
rows near together designating the top
of the inch-wide hem of the plaitings.
On other plaitings, after they are
hemmed, deep slender scallop is de-
scribed in each plat with this braid.
Cuffs or sleeves, collars and pocket are
covered by four or five rows of this
braid, that is laid in curls as close to-
gether as possible. Round bullet
shaped buttons-yet with eyes in the
middle-have beside each of them a
long slender mock buttonhole made OF
wide soutache braid; row of these is
up each side of the Breton vest, down
the two side forms of the back, across
the pockets, cuffs and collar. Mothers
can also make the snowy plaques that
mOdernize the dresses of last season by
| winding rows around and around of
braid, until they are as large as the
new silver trade-dollar. These trim the
back or the front as showily as the but
tons of ivory, shell or bone that are
now worn, but which cannot always be
furnished in colors to match the trim
ming.
The wraps for girls are most COM
Portable sacque cloaks, called the Car
rick, the Marquise and the Creedmoor.
They are very long, half-titting, double
breasted, and the newest omit the mid
die seam in the back-as indeed some
new models for ladies' cloaks debut
have long side forms, with the seams
beginning on the shoulders. One, two
or three small round Carrick capes
trim the shoulders. Most such gar
ments have straight doublc-breasted
fronts, with two rows of small buttons.
The cloths used are soft and flexible,
yet half an inch thick. Drab and gray
are favOrite colors, and many of these
have blue or scarlet on the wrong sides;
such reversible cloths are sold for 81
or IS ayard. Lovely little gray basket
cloth sacqucs and princesse great coats
are shown, and among the novelties are
bourette cloths with tufts of rough
thread. For misses are cut-away coats
of gray cloth merely bound on the
edges with braids. The ulsters for
school wear have three Carrick capes,
and also three belts strapped across the
back, rather more for ornament than
to confine the back.-Harper's Bazar.