River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-09-19
frifies for the Ladies.

I
y Lite India muslin bridal dresses are
quite the thing Tor young brides.
Rolled gold is a color which is rapidly
asserting itself among the novelties.
Pineapple muslins, in delicate shades
of blue, green and pink are exquisite.
Ladies' watch chains now fastCn in a
button hole of tine dress with bar of gold.
Occasionally one sees plaitings of lace
or ribbon on the wrists of evening gloves
now.
A new fruit dish is a large, hand paint
ed porcelain dish, supported by silver
standard.
The summer shoes, walking boots, and
slippers all have the square box toes and
high heels.
Whole sets are shown of the new rib
bon material, comprising skirt, overskirt
and sacque.
The newest caps for breakfast wear are
the Asace bows with emily mite of
white muslin.
Dressy caps for elderly ladies are made
of the finest tulle, with dots of white or
black chenille.
III , ts,.,5 ;, eleaant wranS are trimmed
with Jet and lace.
Lace muslin is an elegant material, and
is considered sufficiently dressy to wear
over velvet skirts.
The amount of Swiss plating put in
the train of dress, renders a long white
skirt unnecessary.
Nantes and capes of coarse meshed
lace, ornamented with black silk applique
work, are fashionable.
Pins of frosted silver in the form of a
single plume are used to fasten black
lace around the throat.
II is no economy to use black thread
for hemming black silk flounces, for long
before the dress is worn out the black
thread is green, blue, or yellow, and
shows marked line where it has been
used.
Some of the pleatod yoke dresses sold
in the shops this summer have been lined
throughout, making them too warm for
comfort. 1t is only the yoke which re-
quires Strengthening; the sleeves and
pleated body are more satisfactory if not
lined.
Industrious ladies will be glad to know
that some of the handsomest piece trim
mings promised for the autumn trade,
are bands worked with fine split zephyr,
in long sketchy stitches-effective but
extremely simple. Borders worked in
this maner will be used as headings,
above lace or fringe,
For fanciful short costumes for out-of-
door fetes and short walking dresses
Worth has revived the casaque. This
casaque is a long close fitting coat in
Louis Quinze style, with large pockets,
large pearl buttons, and lace iabot.
The casaque falls SO low on the skirt that
an oyerskirt is not required.
Ia remodeling it IS easy work to cut off
the long or old fashioned fronts of
polonaises and make the reversed apron,
called the washer woman's;' the pieces
cut off require TO be fitted to the outline
of the front, and the back may be draped
in any way most liked, or most easily
done with the material in hand.
Checked and plaid iGulards are much
used IN Paris as trimmings of bareges and
of wooden dresses. For white barege
afternoon dresses, there are knite-pleated
frills Of blue and green plain foulard.
These frills are pinked on each edge.
There also vests, plastrons, and chemi |
settles OF checked silk for light wool
dresses.
fancilul style of trimming on plain
material of a snowy mixture of colors up
on dress which IS TO be worn for service
only makes poor return for the thought
and labor expended. Some of the pref
uiest dresses recently prepared were
made of striped seer-sucker at twelve
cents a yard, trimmed with braid lace
with crocheted edge.
A great deal of work that once was
thought important is now known TO be of
little consequence, and so, instead of care
fully blind stitching or hemming flounces,
these are very generally prepared by the
sewing machine. The best French dress
es are made almost entirely by machine
work, but in this country ladies prefer
trimmings at least arranged by hand
work, unless i'm thu case of muslins and
wash-dresses.
Sometimes, in renovating a dress, the
fabric is so handsome, and looks SO new
after having been turned, pressed, and |
generally revived. that new trimming
seems indispensable. In the case of real |
ly good material, it is economy to provide |
this, as the second wearing of dress IS |
frequently more satisfactory than the first
in every sense. This is always the case
where the frugal woman has spent all the
money devoted to dress upon the bare
material. exclusive of the trimming.
In making up handsome costumes, la.
dies buy cheap silk for the skirt proper,
as the trimming used upon the foot GOV
ers it and the richer material is thus saved |
for more important portions of the toilette.
Skirts are seldom lined nowadays, and |
ladies think they wear quite as well if
they are not stitched up with too fine a
thread and too close tension of the sew
ing-machine