The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-09-11
Fashions of the Season.

Among the new dress goods in silk
and wool mixtures are found some
novelties In the form of welted striped
goods, the stripes running across, not
lengthwise the goods, producing a cor
duroy effect; and upon this surface,
whose ground is either gendarme blue,
bronze, plum, dark green, brown, or
black, bright silk threads produce
lowered design in jardiniere effects, the
figures being for the most part small set
designs. This stuff is intended for the
paniers, back draperies, cuffs, revcrs,
and collars of costumes whose under
skirts, sleeves, and minor parts are COM
posed of self-colored, all-wool, weItcd
striped goods of tints and shades CORE
spending with the grounds of the figured
goods. In the plain goods intended for
the underSkirts the welted stripes are
also crosswise the goods.
Other fancy silk and wool mixtures
have narrow alternate stripes of plain
wool and figured silk, the silk stripes in
small bright arabesque or armure de-
signs. Other striped cloths have parti-
colored grounds of bronze, French gray
cherry, garnet, peacock, gendarme and
navy blues, and shades of stone and
drCloise or slate color.
Plaid jacquard is genuine novelty.
the large plaids being produced in II
variety of novel and striking designs
and sharply contrasting colors woven in
jacquard loom, and, while they imi-
tate the size and colors of tartans, are
very unlike them. Broken blorks.
squares, and dashes of color are pro
duced in the midst of the wool mixtures
| by bright threads of silk thrown in, the
predominant tints being old gold, sap
| phire and turquoise blues, cherry and
other shades of red, and bright shades of
! green on dark grounds.
In plain all-wool goods, in addition to
the camePs hair goods, cloths, flannels
and cashmeres of last winter, we are
/ shown n new material called tOile de
Sanglier. This is plain woven. but has
a rough surface, and resembles bunting
made sufficiently heavy to serve for warm
winter dresses.
| The ready made suits, thousands of
which are sold every season and sent all
over the world, are shown this fall in
dark cloth colors in the new shades of
amaranth, Rembrandt green, gendarme
or ducks breast and navy blues, dauphin
and dark French grays, Burgoyne and
| golden browns and black, with garni-
ming satins, plain, plaided or striped,
silk plush. jacquard corduroys or welted
stripes, wide woolen braids and Scotch
and jacquard plaids, or other trimming
| goods of silk and wool mixtures similar
to those described above.
| The greater part of these suits are
made up in the form of Il coat basque,
with pointed waistcoat in front and a
| postilion back, curved shorter on the
hips. When the basque has not waist
| coat it is given a stOmacher like q plas-
tron, which is pointed below the waist
and consists of two revers sewed together
down the middle, extending from the
neck down and tapering gradu ually mar
ROVER to the waist. Under this plastron
waistcoat or stomacher the basque is
fastened with small flat buttons. The
plastron may be either of plain cloth OF
satin, or it may be covered with parallel
lines of zigzag braid set on crosswise in
points. The position backs are some,
times pointed, but oftener square, and are
given flat box-plaits beaded with fancy
buttons. The skirts are short, trimmed
with the usual flounce or flounces, in the
usual variety of kilt, knife blade and box.
plaitings. Paniers appear on many o.
these skirts, or scarfs arranged TO produce
panier effects. Wide bells are seen or
many of the basques, beginning in the
seam under the arms and fastening il
front. Other basques are half double
breasted, and others again have supplies
plaits erg athers in front; and blouse eff
teus are also popular in basques, fasten
ing down with three-inch wide belts. t.
which the side pocket is attached. Th
buttons on the waistcoats are smalle
than those on other parts OF the costume
Few outside pockets are seen, but some
times long square or pear-shaped ap
pendage of this kind is attached to tn
lower edge of basque. and made yer
effective with trimmings. Plaid silk
and silk plush of the same shade as tn
wool material of the dress, and sell
colored jacquard corduroys. also of tn
shade of the wooden stuff, are used fo
trimming cashmeres. toile des Lsde,
, camel's hair and toile de sanglier CO:
tunes. These ready-made suits range j
price all the way from 800 TO S75 an
] 800. -. .uI
Large and small bonnets, the first yer
large and the second very small, are see
among the importations of milliner
, goods. The large bonnets are eitht
pokes will, close sides, direstoire boz