The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1879-09-25
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
lengtkwise 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 a.
tlowered 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 partsare com.
posed of seE-ee4ureu, all-wool, Meltad
sI-:revtgoods of tints and sh.@ CORE,
spondine with tLA7<rounus OF the Inquired
good-r-sfn the plain goods intended for
The underskirts the welted stripes are
also crosswise the goods. -,------.,r;
Other fancy silk and wool mixtures
have narrow alternate stripes of plain
wool and figured silk, the silk stripes in
small bright arabesquc or armure de-
signs. Other striped cloths have parti-
colorcd grounds of bronze, French gray,
cherry, garnet, peacock, gendarme and
nnvy blues, and shades of stone and
aytlotSe or slate color.
Plaid jacquard is genuine novelty,
the large plaids being prodnced in II
variety uf novel and striking designs,
and sharply contrasting colurs woven in
Jacquard loom, and, while they imi-
tate the size and colors of tartans, are
very unlike them. Broken blocks,
squares, and dashes of color are pro.
dlced 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 camel's hair goods, cloths, farnels
and. cashmeres Of last winter, we are
shown new material called toile dc
sanglier. This is plain woven, but has
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-
lures and parts of the costumes of trim
ming satiDs, plain, plaided or striped,
silk plush. jacquard corduroys or welted
stripes, wide wooden 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 eaits are
-. of n Pn1t hlCn1lG.
with pointed waistcoat in front ana 4
gg,ps g9ss!iQa y sf Aaf tnc 5aSaue as not waist
coat it is given stomacher like 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 gradually na--
p,wer to the waist. Under this plastron
yyaistcoat or stomacher the basque is
fastened with small fiat buttons. The
plastron may be either of plain cloth or
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 fiat box-plaits beaded with fancy
buttons. The skirts are short, trimmed
with the usual founce or founces, in the
usual variety of kilt, knife blade and box
plaitings. Paniers appear on many of
these skirts, or scarfs arranged 10 produce
panier effects. Wide bells arc seen on
many of the basques, beginning in the
seam under the arms and fastening in
front. Other basques are half double
breasted. and others again have surplice
plaits crg athers in front; and blouse eff
fec,s are also popular in basques, fasten-
ing down with three-inch wide belts. to
which the side pocket is attached. The
buttons on the waistcoats are smaller
than those on other parts OF the costume.
| Few outside pockets are seen, but some
times n long square or pear-shFped ap-
pendage of this kind is attached to the
lower edge of a basque. and made very
effective with trimmings. Plaid silks
and silk plush of the same shade as the
wool material of the dress, and self
colored jacquard corduroys. also of tho
shade of the wooen stuff, arc used for
trimming cashmeres, toilc des IndeS,
camcrs hair and toile dc Sa'lglier cos
tunes. These ready-made suits range in
| price all the way from $50 TO S75 and
300.
Large and small bonnets, the first very
large and the second very small, are seen
among the importations of millinery
| goods. The large bpnnets are either
! BOXES witt, close sides, directoire ben