The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-03-13
Spring and Summer Silks and Woolens.

Spring and Summer Silks and Woolens.
THE newly-imported silks of light
weight for spring and summer dresses
have very dark grounds in stylish ma
room red, bottle green, violet, navy
blue, or black, with broken lines and
broken cross-bars of white made up of
two or three threads. There are also
regular pencil stripes and bars of white;
put the broken patterns are newest.
These cost from eighty-five cents a
yard upward. Finer silks for rich cos
TUNES have satin and repped stripes
alternating in two beige shades with
lines of blue or cardinal between.
These satin repped stripes are also
shown in plain pink, blue and cream
for evening dresses, or else they have
broche figures on the satin stripes be-
tween white repped stripes. These
are to be made up with plain satin of
the same shade. Stripes promise to be
most popular in all such fabrics, yet
there are many patterns in small fig
ures of fans and other Japanese de-
signs of color on white grounds. For
trimming plain silk, or wool dresses,
there are very narrow lines of satin
and reps alternating in all the stylish
shades.
The prettiest barred silks have clus-
tered lines of three or four threads
each way in the new wine reds, green,
beige. tan-colors, gray and black on
white. There are very small bars, and
there are still smaller checks and ar
mure designs in the nice qualities of
summer silks that cost $50 to 81 a
yard. The small designs of this kind
are preferred for the black and white
mixtures that produce grisaille effects.
Loulsine silks. loosely woven, soft
and flexible, come in gay tints and
rocco patterns of Pompadour colors in
stripes on cream, pale gray, or white
grounds; the plain, half-inch stripe has
satin luster, while that on which the
chintz rosebuds appear is repped.
There are the old-fashioned patterns
formerly seen on challies and on Or
CANDY muslins. There are also gay
bandana plaids, instead of Scotch tar
tans, shown in Louisine silks; the
plaids are not very large, but are of
the brightest colOrs, such as two shades
of blue with olive and old gold, or else
green with garnet, and white bars
about an inch square. Louisine silks
cost $l.25 to $3.50 yard, and will be
used for Pompadcur over-dresses at
the watering places in midsummer with
plain silks or else satin. The soft Lou
isine silk is also shown in invisible
checks of wine color, gray or black on
l vIyhS mill ho Co "a,
suits for the city. and the red wine
shades are especially liked for young
ladies and misses.
SPRING wOoLENs.
Solid colors are most largely import
ed in wooden goods; there are many
Chuddah effects, stripes and checks
shown in the weaving, but the single
color is preserved throughout. Tan
shades prevail, and there is every gra-
dation of ecru tints, cream and beige
cOlOrs; some of these are SO family col
ored that they look like soiled white,
and depend for their beauty upon the
fineness of the wool and the intricate
designs in which they are woven. Gray
shades, wine cOlors and the old-fash-
toned lavendar, drab and mode shades
are shown in all these goods. The
Chuddah stripes, like herring bones,
come in smooth-fnished French goods
at $3.50 a yard for double widths that
measure torty-eight inches. There are
also the camers- Chuddahs, that
look like the real India Chuddahs, at
| 50 to 81 yard; the latter are most
popular for black dresses. A novelty
this season is watered striped woolens
in the new sapphire blues, ecru and
tan shades, copying closely the effect
of the satin-striped moires worn during
the winter; in fine wool these are $1.75
a yard and are double width. Beauti-
full crinkled wooden goods like Grape
are known as zephyr armure. CASH
meres of fine quality are plain, and
also striped in the white, cream and
beige tints, as well as quaint shades OF
blue, like the new faience and Sevres
tints, turquoise and robin -egg.
Among the new flannel-inish fab.
RIGS for summer dresses is a novelty
called beige de sante, made of very
sleazily-woven fine wool in gray, tan o.
beige shades of a single color, or elst
in invisible checks. This is about al
heavy as the buntings worn last sum
mer, but is not SO stiff and wiry. 1t il
single width, and costs sixty cents 8
yard. For fifty cents yard are excel.
lent qualities of de bege in cool. clear
gray shades for plain suits and fol
travelling dresses. Buntings of various
qualities are imported again in a vari'
ETY. of colors; the light cream, pale
blue and pink shades will be used for
little girls dresses; black bunting il
cool and pleasant wear for the country.
for travelling, and for dresses that get
hard usage.-Harper's Bazaar.