The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06
FASHION FRIPPERIES.
HINTS ABour DRESSES

HINTS ABOUT DRESSES
Pleated skirts forming double kits are
very fashionable for foulards and for thin
wool dresses. Hoods are about to be
revived, and are made on round capes
that reach only to the elbow, as we'll as
ON the long straight gowns that form
over-dresses for suits. Gathered rufles
made very narrow and double of the silk
are on Paris dresses. The gay cotton
dresses are quite as effective as those Of
touard, and are secured for Newport and
Saratoga. Creamy muslin embroidery
| and white Languedoc lace are lavishly
used on French costumes of Turkey red
calico; the parasol and fan to match are
OF the same calico, very delicately paint
ed by hand.
Other cretonne, Saline and mummy
cloth dresses are made up in the Wat
teau designs that are used for foulards,
and are deliberately trimmed with lace.
Yachting dresses of wool bunting are
made of the handkerchief-patte
bunting, with blue ground, polka-dotted
with red Dark blue foulard with white
polka dots is made into charming short
dresses, faced with dark red, and sold
for $50. Red foulards in Turkish pat
terms are faced with blue. Dark wine
colored Surah dresses are deliberately
trimmed with creamy white muslin and
embroidery. Coat sleeves of dresses are
made very high on the shoulders, and
stand upward like mems coat-sleeves.
The wrists of sleeves are very plainly
finished, and are trimmed with lace
pleatings. ....
INEXPENSIVE DRESSES.
Sleazily woven flannel, called by the
merchants beige de sante, and. sold for
% cents yard, is made up for summer
| dresses for the country. It may be had
in navy or peacock blue, gray, olive, or
cardinal, and, while all pure wool, is of
such light weight that it is liked for
morning dresses The box-pleated waist
or belted basque is simply stitched, or
else piped with darkred. There are two
or three full straight breadths gathered
OF pleated in the back, and an apron
Grapes the front and sides. A box
pleated ruffle piped with red trims the
edge. When made at home such dresses
need not cost more than SIS.
/ For low-priced white dresses the sum-
mer zephyr sold at Is cents yard is a
very pretty creamy white muslin as soft
and thin as India muslin, and with a
crape-ike crinkle. This makes charm
ing drapery for partly-worn evening
dress of light silk, and might also be
! edged with the new cream and gold
laces, and draped upon dark or even
black silks.
! Shawls with solid centers and embroi-
dered borders are being utilized for the
/ long coats and sUlrtOuts now In fashion.
One Of navy-blue cashmere, with dotted
/ embroidery Of pale gray in the border,
makes beautiful overdress for a gray
silk trimmed with blue satin pleating.
Another shawl of brocaded silk and wool
mixed cream and gold is also effective
for long coat, to be worn with a skirt
of black velvet. A coachman' s-drab coat
of fine cashmere, with brown velvet Di-
rectoire collar and pockets, is worn with
! a brown-velvet skirt
Spanish lace will be the fashionable
net for polonaises in the summer, and
will be worn with dresses Of pale gray,
heliotrope, or ecru silk.
/ Gray or brown Cheviot, in black pat
ters, as we'll as in checks, is sold for the
popular price of so or so cents yard,
for making light wooden suits for spring,
summer, and fall. It is made with a
pleated skirt, which is sometimes plain
kilt, but more often there are three rows
of pleating across the back breadths,
covering them from the belt to the foot,
while the front is a single kilt. A long
coat basque or still longer surtout is
piped with red to complete the suit.