Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-06-20
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Laces. Bows and Jabots.


Cotton laces in snowy effective pat.
terms are much used for trimming mus
lin and cambria dresses. What Is called
Byzantine point is liked for such pur
poses, as it washes well, and initiates the
rich designs of antique laces. The Rus
sian laces in braid-like patterns are still
popular, and cost from twenty cents I'd
sixty cents yard. Cluny lace is again
much used for children's pique and
bunting dresses, and there is great deal
of fine Irish tatting for trimming. Poin|
Raguse lace is used on bonnets as well
as dresses; this has the fine irregulaj
meshes of thread lace, with the patterl|
applied and held by button-hole stitch
ing; the designs are like those of poin|
applique lace. This lace and Breton ard
preferred for trimming very nice dressed
of white muslin or of the white gauzd
bunting. The black French laces known
as limitations of thread laces are now
given what the dealers call the thread
finish, by weaving them in irregular
meshes that can scarcely be dis
tinguished from those of handmade
laces. These are to be laid in knife
plaitings, and the designs are mostly
with reference to this, having a space
between the wrought figures, which are
narrow and lengthwise. The trimming
widths vary from one and half to five
inches, and cost from thirty to sixty-five
cents yard. Black Breton lace is
shown in similar patterns, and is very
stylish for edging wells and neckties,
and for trimming bonnets. 1t is, how
ever, very frail, and the meshes are as
slight as those of tulle, so that it has
not proved very useful or effective foI
dress trimmings. Beaded laooo, tI
brighten up pl0in black chips or tulld
bonnets, cost from $1.50 upward. Both
jet and gold beads are used. AS thd
beads simply outline the design, ladies
can easily modernize laces they have ori
hand by sewing on fine cut jet beads.
Two extreme sizes are shown as cra1
vats to be worn in front of the neck,
viz, the very small muslin bow for
morning and plain wear, and the very
large long jabot in the Louis Quatorze
style for more dressy occasions. The
small cravat is merely bow made of
two rows of plated Breton lace attached
to bit of India muslin; these are sewed
together to be round like tassel. and
are tightly strapped in the middle with
muslin fold; when finished, the ends
lie horizontally. and the whole affair is
not more than four or five inches broad.
The long jabot has just such bow as
this for beginning while below it the
muslin and lace fall in irregular shells to
the waist line. No two are alike, and
they are so capriciously fashioned that
the most inexperienced can scarcely &c
wrong in making them. The small bows
cost 81 to 50, and the larger ones are
80 to So.
There are also very wide fan-shaped
rravats, made of two rows of plated
shells of lace with lengthwise fan plaits
of muslin between. A cluster of narrow
ribbon loops hangs from one side; this
is brocaded riboon or else plain satin
For still more dressy wear a bunch OF
violets or of Marshal Neil roses, or some
other favorite flower, is added. With
such cravats, collars or frills of lace OF
dispensed with, and an India muslin
scarf is laid in fine folds and passed
around the neck; narrow Breton lace
edges this scarf at top and bottom, and
the ends have wider lace plated across
them. The soft null used for bows and
lichus is mostly imported from France
and very closely initiates the real India
muslin. 1t is very sheer, with irregular
threads like linen, and washes without
thickening; it is two yards wide an6
costs from eighty-fve cents to $3.50 g
yard. The ecru null is similar to this,
but is more deeply tinted.
Linen lawn neckties, or those of India
null, are made long enough to pas;
around the neck inside the linen collar
they are not considered stylish if worn
outside-and the ends form bow il
front; hem and fanciful stitching
in blocks or bars are across the ends o.
some, while others are finished with tht
most exquisite embroidery, For ladies
in mourning are plated scarfs of white
lisse with footing on the sides and il
rows across the bias ends. Jabots ar,
also made of crepe lisse, either black o.
white, closely crimped, then laid il
shell-like rows.-BGzGr.