The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-08-27
HOLIDAY ATTIRE.
Dress That Made a Sensation at New
port.
New York Graphic.

r'r.- New York Graphic.
Everything that is novel, striking, pic
turesque and becoming Ii permitted, PR
vided it is not incongruous. Such hat q
the one last mentioned, for example, woul
be out Of place with toilet of strictly con
ventional elegance, but with plain, cream,
white gown and fichu of null and lace /
was charming.
The loveliest imported costumes are mad,
OF cream silk muslin over soft cream s,lk
or satin, with trimmings of satin and plat
cd lace or fringe or embroidery upon tulls
or silk net. They cost, bat French cos
tunes always do cost, and they are not
@sthetic." They are too elaborate and
conventional for that but they are excess
siveiy rich and distinguished looking, and
there are occasions when this is necessary.
Dresses Of this description are not made
with straight bodice. but with glovs-ft-
ting basques, which are followed in upon
the hips, or with overdresses consisting of
casaquins draped away from the front and
forming fiat side paniers.
feature Of the elegant toilets are the
multitudinous fiounces, or rather narrow
rufnes, which cover the skirts in front and
oelow the drapery. Some are gathered.
Out The most delicate are laid in the finest
OF plaits, ano the supreme touch is to nut
small waves of exquisite muslin or filmy
crepe lisse over others of silk or satin until
tho effect of foam is produced.
A dress that made q sensation at the |
Newport Casino lately was Of silk net, fiue
mesh, embroidered with straw over straw
colored satin. Straw embroidered fichus
had been seen before, but never an entire
dress, and this was most artistically execu-
Ted III wheat ears, oats and grasses with the
hhest OF split straw. Such embroidery
'annot be bought, and it was, indeed. the
act that the wearer had accomplished the
work herself. She had seen q small piece
u such en- broidery worn by friend, and
'er ambition was excited to possess a
iress of it.
Shirring has become 80 comm ,n that IL
no longer disti nctive; still it is effective.
LII the recent dresses, of whatever materi-
!, are made with shirred backs, short q
prom fronts, and all-round bodices. The C
kirt hangs straight at the back, aud the 6
hiring consists of from Eve to seysn rows
Glow the line Of the belt. d
The latest style of overdress is the (
smock frock," and it is copied after the O
arment worn by the English carter, or
am-drver. Such man does not sit on a.
In his wagon, as might be supposed, il
1t he drives his load, walking beside his NJ
'rses, cracking bis whip, and wearing q
smock frock, winter and summer, over
corduroys. This frock is neither more y
n less than what would be cali a straight :.
pinafore If worn by a child, with the =
Illness gathered In. and SHRED down front
d back into rather narrow limits, leaving 81
AIN spaces at the sides. The sleeves are 81
Tired from the top down in the same way io
several inches, but In coarse fashion, VII
the new overdresses strictly follow
py, except that the shirring-" gauging'' bl'
8 called In England-is more neatly done fig
In In the carter's frock. The carriers da
wear them loose-the young ladies add tb'
'e't. gather the slightly full sleeve into Of
'ad band which desceuds half way upon .
arm, and edge with lace. The prettiest tbs
made OF soft twilled Corah silk, cream foe
ite or robins egg blue, and when the pie
OK is cut rather long and placed over a a b
rs trimmed with many tiny gathered fip,
Hes upon slender, graceful form, a SIM 4, !
ar transformation is effected, and the =,
ters homely frock becomes part of 49,
OF the sweetest and suotlest things in W.
or nature.