Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-11-03
Grenadine Dresses.

DItNSt'Ss
Ligbt-cOlored grcaadne is again in
favor for very handsome toictles for
afternoon and dress occasions at the
waterng-paccs. 1t is chosen with bro
cadrd figures on Il satin ground. or
else the figure is satin and the ground
work in the pattern OF armure or of
Spanish lace. The pale Nile green
tints and the lavender shades once SO
popular, also salmon-colorS, are now
revived. and are worn with Il cor>awe bo-
quet OF tra-roSes. gloves OF the same
creamy hue. and large fat or small
bonnet of Tuscan straw. The
preltiest pale green grenadines are
made up with 4 great deal OF the ivory
white Oriental lace, or else any real
Nalcncicnnes that has been laid away
since the French laceS came in vogue;
the para~ol is OF satin. with grenadine
cover like that of the dress. and the
large round hat of English split straw
has white ostrich plumes and green
scarf of Canton Grape. Lavender with
a large armure t1oweron Il satin ground
has for par1 of its garniture a great
many small bows made of two shades of
violet asmall bonnet entirely of violcts is
worn with this dress. and the white para
sol has a boquet of violets tied near its
center. Another fancy is the Use of
velvet with these grenadines. as in this
lavender dress the high corsagc has 4
vest of dark violet purple velvet with
the ivory white Oriental lace gathered
very full on each edge, and falling up
on it; a hip piece of velvet extends from
the vest across the sides. and is also
veied with lace. The drapcrv repre-
sents deep apron over-Skirt with many
folds across it, that are sewed in five
different places by small closely knotted
bows in thick clusters. made of satin
ribbon of the two violet shades. The
cuffs are of velvet. with lace falling
over them from above. and frill of the
lace below to drop on the arm.
The most elegant black grenadine
dresses are made of the plain sewing
silk grenadine without figures, and are
nearly covered with flounceS of real
lace, either of the silk Spanish lace. or
else black thread lace. The fashion OF
making black grenadines over color
was introduced last summer, and is still
done. especially when tcrra-coIta.
orange or geranium red satin is used.
The Spanish lace figured grenadine was
preferred for these dresses at the begin
ming of the season, but the newest ca
price is for the satin grounds that have
great balls of trans farent armure lace
work. and these balls are two or three
inches in diameter. Sometimes these
are made up in the long plain coat or
redingote shape now so popular in
Paris, but the panier drapery that pre-
walls here is more often chosen. espec-
tally for young and slender ladies. The
striped grenadines are ALWAYS in style,
and are liked by those whose refined
tastes object to striking and conspicuous
things. Satin stripes alternating with
armure stripes of even width are most
used. and there are also many MORE
stripes with armure grenadine. The
basque lining for these is gros grain silk,
or else the diagonal silk lining specially
meant for grenadine. The skirt founda-
tiOn is of inexpensive black silk. A
popular trimming for satin-striped gren-
adinc basques is two gathered frills
of French lace forming vest and
dropping on tho sleeves. and. rs Il head
ing for the lace. loops of satin ribbon an
inch wide laid flat on the straight edge
OF the lace; for instance, six loops.
three of which are turned each way
from strap on the inside seam
of the sleeve, trim the waist pret-
tily. A similar row of loops passes
up each side OF the front and around
plated front with apron sides is liked
for grenadine; indeed. the lengthwise
plaits are part OF the apron. rs they be-
gin just below the waist line, and
widen out like q fan to the foot. This
is effectively done with eight plaits that
are Tapped at top very narrowly, and
are gradually widened out by being
less deeply folded, until they spread
out at the foot over space nearly
three-fourths of a yard broad where
they are edged with lace. and fall on
the two plaitings at the foot. There is
usually seam down the middle of this
fan-plaiting, and the side brcadths are
curved upward in apron style. and
sewed in folds to the side seams. where
they meet the long full back drapery
that is widely hemmed on the edges,
without any lace trimming. The pretty
skirt are two in number, each six inches
deep. Aatly pressed, with French lace
three inches wide sewed on half les
width above the edge of the grenadine;
the upper frill laps an inch over the
lower one. and there is a grenadine
anticipating sewed to the silk founda-
ton skirt at the bottom, quite out of
sight. but very useful for supporting
the lace on the flounce above it. The
grenadine for these plaitings, though
used to trim armure and satin-striped
grenadine, is not striped, but is plain
like that of the armure stripe. More
snowy black grenadines with pulled
paniers are made of the feather-strped
designs so much used by Worth. and
are trimmed with feathers of finely-cut
jet wrought like embroidery on Brus-
sells net. and with frills of silk Spanish
lace that has similar feather patterns
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