St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-02-25
Spring Cotton Goods.


Fresh importations of cotton fabrics
for spring and summer dresses are
shown each week at the wholesale stores,
and many are exposed for sale in the
retail shops. Chintz patterns are found
among these both in light and dark |
,.olors, and with borders or without |
them. The percales are especially pref
ty in their cobweb patterns, on white
grounds with web-like lines, on which |
gay figures are thrown. There are also
many in Vatican colors and designs
combining blue with pink, or rose with
gray, and showing birds, baskets OF flow
ers, tiny landscapes, or pipes, shepherd
ess hats and flowers bound up with rib
bons. The polka dots prevail, howev-
er, in all the soft-fnished goods, and
come in all dark bronze, brown, garnet
and blue shades. The Madras cloths
are the popular zephyr ginghams IN all
the old-fashioned checks, bars and
stripes that wash and wear so well, and
in many new contrasts OF color besides.
The Cheviots are excellent for service.
and represent the twilled and plaid eff
fects of the Scotch wool Cheviots. En-
glish calicoes, heavier than percales,
come in the chintz patterns that they
always repeat from French callcoes, and
In the popular polka dots OF white on
dark grounds; the latter are particularly
liked in black and white for ladies dress
ing in mourning.
Satinette is new cotton fabric that
can scarcely be distinguished from
foulard, as it is '.silky'' even to the
touch This has closely twilled sur
face, is not nearly SO thick as the usual
| cotton satines, and is brought out IN
most artistic colors and designs, with
plain satinette to match the ground OF
each pattern. 1t comes with cream
ground strewn with Marshal Mel rose
buds, or pale pink with deeper pink
roses, or blue grounds with either pink
Or yellow roses. To make up with these,
olive-colored plain satinette will be
| used with the cream grounds, Or deeper
blue with pale blue, or they may have
the same ground throughout. Dark
brown, green, wine-color and purple are
shown in the plain shades, and these
will make excellent foundations for the
satinettes in g stained glass designs, as
those are called that cover the fabric
| with figures, leaving no single color for
the ground; similar designs were used
last year in foulards, and were some
times employed for the entire dress,
though combinations with olive,
dark blue, seal brown, or bronze
shades were found to be very effective.
For lighter-colored dresses these satin
cites have white, gray, pearl or pink
grounds strewn with carnations, mas
turtiurns Of natural size, baskets filled
| with flowers, bouquets without baskets
and bird patterns of most varied color
ing. All these pretty designs are re-
peated in sheer batiste of most beauti-
full quality that is handsome enough to
be made up over silk; fifty cents yard
is the price of the satinettes, and also
OF the new batistes. Fine cambrics
and shirtings have blue grounds with
white figures. or white with colored
figures. The new pattern for these is
called the Comet of 1881, and repre-
sents two comets crossing each other,
one blue the other red, OF some other
contrasting colors. There are also an
Choir patterns, rings, squares, stripes,
stars, the curved line Of beauty form
ing the letter S, horseshoes, and polka
dots so small that they are mere specks
of color graduating up to those like
great balls or moons.-Harper's Bazaar.