The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-20
Spring Goods and Spring Dresses.

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the next season show stripes, armures,
basket-woven goods, small neat flo
rated designs, polka dots and borders
for trimmings. Plain smoothly-woven
fabrics are shown in colors to accom-
pany the striped and figured stuffs, and
the combination of two or three kinds
of material in single dress will evil
IDENTIFY be continued.
The new woolens have what is called
by merchants the channel finish"
meaning a woolly surface, without lus-
ter, and very soft. These come in plain
colors or in narrow stripes of two tones
of a color, or else in the loose basket
weaving. The colors are moss, beige
brown, gray and black. A new camel s
hair fabric is shown without twills and
with flannel finish; it is of lighter
weight than any before shown, and is
as thin as bunting or as grenadine; it is
most largely imported in beige brown
and black. The gray woolens look
prettiest in odd armure designs, or in
stripes fourth of an inch wide of two
clear shades of French gray. The
standard de bege is imported in gray,
olive, moss, beige and navy blue. Low
priced wooden mixtures for the million
have tiny thread stripes and checks, or
zigzag effects of two shades, such as
cream with brown, or else in contrast,
as gray with red. Checked effects are
given in the weaving rather than in the
coloring; stripes will be preferred to
checks, or at least they have been more
largely imported. Few plaids are
shown, but there are many cross-barred
patterns.
The luster of satin is so popular at
present that it has been given to cotton
goods, and the novelty for spring wash
dresses will be satteens, finely twilled,
yet soft and flexible, and with genuine
gloss like the luster of satin. Whether
this satin finish will survive washing
remains to be seen, but the pretty pat
tiers are said to be fast; they are small
flowers in exquisite colors, beautifully
grouped, as if designed by artists. The
grounds are sky blue, cream, French
gray, brown, or white, and they are
striped grounds of two contrasting col
ors-rose with blue, gray with pink,
cream with blue. These are to form
GshBnyP aanw g pesc sa,uesns-s1fe" stripes I'll
two shades of gray or of ecru, with d
border of dark cardinal red strewn with
palm leaves.
Another novelty is basket-woven
cotton, with the thick threads crlnk leo
like Oriental stuffs, AMI the white, dark
blue, gray or cream grounds strewn
with tiny arabesques or with flowers
lone-stemmed pinks, fleurs-de-lis, REEDS
and grasses; pale blue grounds with
olive figures, white grounds with ara
besoues of red with blue, and violet
grounds have bright yellow buttercups.
The ouaintest old-time designs and the
flowers of old-fsshioned gardens are on
the newest goods. -
French and English calicoes, lawns
and organizes have small figures and
South Kensington designs of flowers
vines or branches on pale blue, gray
drab or cream grounds. Others nave
stripes of two colors on white, or small
palm leaves, rose.buds or ragged-sail
ors. ON dark olive, old gold, or blue
ground. with dado-like borders. NJ
bowers or vines are massed closely TO-
rether for the border, and strewn aDou
IN artistic disorder over the breadth o
the goods, The borders are two anu
half or three inches wide, and so man,
Yards of bordering are required to trim
a dress that a double border Is 1ol
nished by having a stripe OF it dow
each selvedge, instead of only on on
selvedge, as was formerly done. I'm
, lawns win cost from twenty-five cent
. tn forty cents yard. Calicoes OF soli
colors. warranted to wash, are supp lie
in pale or dark blue, Turkey ret
brown and dark green, to comp!e'
costumes that are partly figured an
+ partly striped:
r The polka dotted percales OF soft fl
;sh are the most &c Frenchy'-look:r