The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-04-12
SPRING STYLES,

SPRING STYLES.
Fresh importations of spring dresses
arrive each week at this season of the
year, confirming anew some of the de-
signs already received, and adding more
varied novelties. Thus far the polonaise
is the over-dress most often seen on both
rich and simple costumes. While a dis
sertation might be written on the various
shapes of this garment, it's distinctive
features remain the same Black silk
polonaises are made with flat pleatings
from the neck down the middle of the
back to match the fan trains with which
they are worn Black grenadine polo
naise have large damasls figures. are
drared differently on each side, and are
caught up by long-looped bows Of black
satin ribbon; the trimming is ruches of
French lace, and jabots of lace with ends
of satin ribbon hanging in the shells.
The new navy blue gazeline barege (or
lama wooD is made up with rich gros
grain of the same shade; ;nd trimmed
with a transparent galloon, and rich
fringe in which threads of mandarin
yellow and the new Vesuve red are intro
duced. Light-tnted smoked-pearl but
tons are used on both dark and light
cloths.
Cloth dresses of light quality are made
up with position basques and long over
skirts with square sides and fatty pleated
backs. These dresses are meant to be
very useful and simple, hence rich
fringes are not used, but the over skirt
has deep hem or silk facing Grena two
to three inches wide3, aboFe Which is a
Single row of very wide galloon. Still
| others have five or six parallel rows
of sewing machine stitching in place of
the galloon, and in some instances this
stitching is of contrasting color for in
stance, Pingat puts pale blue stitching
on brown cloth, mandatii Oh olive, etc
A1n0ng other simple and stylish dresses
are those of fine delaine in the smallest
pin-head checks of color on white.
| These have a silk skirt with a polonaise
and sleeveless jacket. A model that will
serve for description is of brown and
white check on seal-brown silk skirt,
trimmed with knife-pleatings of the silk,
and galleon bfocaded in Indian colors
and design. The silk skirt has founce
of the wool from the knee down, made
straight, and edged on the bottom with
rose-leaf pleating of brown silk. To
| keep the front of the dress fiat, this deep
foupce has no gathers in the font and
Side breadths, but is quite full behind,
where it forms fan train.
The newest princesse dresses for spring
are of light Algerienne or Knickerbocke1
woolens in dashes of blue, green OF
brown on white, with silk of another
color for sleeves and for founces. Thus
blue and white soft Algerienne wool
| princesse dresses have side cores, knife
pleatings, pockets, collars and sash ends
of ashes-of-roses gros grain. The
drapery is unequal, being massed in
horizontal pleats ON one side, while the
opposite gore is of plain silk, ON which
SQUARE DOWS Ol SILK are Etlel Lie 1oOt
of the dress is cut out in squares, and
silk knife-pleatings border the skirt.
The inevitable pearl buttons appear Oh
all such dresses
For evening dresses the princesse
style prevails, and for these gay dresses
is laced in the back, has a square neck
and Medicis collar, and separate
square train without particle of drapery
and suggesting a regular court train.
The richest dresses of this kind have
some of the cores of light gros grain and
other cores Of the new chenille gauze Of
gay colors.-Harper' Basar.