The Penn's Grove record., 1882-06-03
NUMBER 43.
For the Fair Sex.

shaWls are 1aVOrlte wraps.
White suits for summer are of wool
in preference to lawn.
White net embroidery is used for
neckties and chemisettes.
Soft toques of wool like the dress are
worn with travelling dresses.
Amvia is the name given to a new
and lovely shade of yellowish pink.
In Paris children's stockings mus
match their dresses; this is obligatory.
Long stocking mitts will be much
worn with light costumes in mid
summer.
The designs and colorings of new
stockings are artistic in the highest
degree.
Natural flowers have entirely sup
erseded artificial ones for trimming
dresses.
The newest cloJh goods have round
SPOTS as large as the palm of a lady's
hand.
Mother Hubbard styles are now
confined to morning wrappers and
night dresses.
Fruit and flower designs in close
printed patterns appear on new Isle
thread stockings.
The favorite blue for children's fam
nels and cheviots is the old gendarme
or china blue.
Simple house dresses now In prepar-
alton for early spring are made chiefly
Of soft wool materials alone, or they
have a moderate combination of silk
surah or a fine cord lustrous gros grain.
The latter fabric, having been laid
aside for satins and lustrous surahs, is
once more being used, and, consider
ing its durability, ladies of good taste
wear it in preference to any other ma
terial in the house.
Among the special novelties for sea-
side wear are costumes of cheese-cloth,
with bonnet and parasol complete.
The dresses are trimmed with kiltei
iounces (narrow) across the front, al
ternating with pleated ruffies of lace,
which are placed partly under those of
the cheese. cloth. The heading is q
band of what looks like embroidery,
but is in reality al application of Gre
tonne, outlined with buttonhole
stitch. This is repeated three times
across the front and also upon the
basque, hat and parasol. The fine
lace pleatings also reappear upon
every part of the dress. The costumes
are imported complete. Chene silks
have taken the place of what has been
known as summer" silks-that is the
small checked and striped silks.
There are checked washing silks still,
but they have not the cachet of the
newest thing India pongee has ex-
ierienced an enormous revival, due,
perhaps, to the trouble of procuring
other art materials. PoDgees we have
always-it is not ~extravagantly light,
and it is n of the coolest, cleanest
and daintiest of summer fabrics.
China crepe il revived. but only for u
few, for it is to costly for wear by the
many. A few pieces of terra-cotta red
have been eaa erly bought up to be
made into country house and fete
dresses trimmed with white, and
worn with white lace hat and parasol.
The Tussore silks are fine and soft,
very cool, and with their India tints
aud clinging quality make aesthetic
dresses. In washing materials the
new satinets have easily taken the
first rank. The gowns are well COW
cred with lovely and most original de-
signs, and though some of these latter
are bizarre, there are enough of those
that are both pretty and original to re-
deem them. The new rose design has
dark grounds-olive or chocolate-and
some a dull china blue. Upon these
are shaded roses, Mareschal Neil,
dark red and others, with brown stems
and fading foliage. There are also
Kate Greenway patterns, the quaint
designs of little folks, which are so
well known, furnishing the border
ings to small leafy patterns. The mar
row chene-striped ginghams, with
linen finish are among the prettiest
and most suitable materials for sum-
mer morning dresses. They are made
with a killed front, draped back and
shirred basque bodice or blouse waist,
and trimmed with Madeira embroi-
derry or Belgian lace. Very useful
summer skirts are made short, of a
somewhat coarse bat churaba kind of
French batiste, hounced, flushed
with a drawing string at the back so
as to mass the fulness into q Spanish
hounce. Above this a series of rufdes
supplies all the tournure needed.
Skirts of this description have hereto
fore been very high, and only obtain
a0le at a few small importing houses
now they are supplied more freely and
at much lower rates.
Travelling dresses have reached per-
fiction, so far as the limitations OF the
case will admit, in the English tailor
made costumes imported from the best
house. Only the best cloth, best
shades, best coiors, and best workman
ship are put on these seemingly SIM
pie suits. which are, however, nor at
all cheap. The stitching and the but
ons are all the trimmings; but the
finish is equal to that put upon the
finest coats for men, For q long jour-
ney one of these suits, a Newmarket
coat and a soft felt hat with flexible
: brim, a long gauze veil and a pair OF
T long wash leather gloves form an ex-
: cellent outfit.