The Penn's Grove record., 1882-07-08
For the Fair Sex.
The Latest Modes.

Nuns veiiing again comes to the
front as the most popular material for
costumes Of medium elegance, and for
simple or ceremonious toilets. This Is
plain. printed In dots snd sprigs, in
designs Of woven shot and emhroideT-
ed sprigs, and in robe patterns with
embroidered bouncing ard trimming
pieces. Varying the wolfe religieuse,
or the Nuns yelling, is a semi-diapha-
nous wooden material for summer
dresses, known as ''alhatross CLOTH"
This is seen also in plain and fancy
patterns /; while an occasional pattern
is sbowni in robe borderingof ~fieelle, or
the superb thread guipure which isnow
the pet trimming and the admiration
of Paris. Much greater latitude OF
fancy is noticeable in the style of
making the semi-diaphsnous stutfs,
than In the heavier woolens. The
novelty laces are abundantly used as
trimming.
Some of the most beautiful dresses
/ that have been presented thus far for
inspection are of nuns yelling. or OF
albatross cloth, the skirt edged with
narrow plotting overhung by a wide
shirred flounee, edged with Oriental
lace. or with silk. wroueht Barcelona
Isce-the lace-edged tlounces, or
shirred sagging puffs alternating
iounces continued up on the front,
and narrow bouffaut dIapery covering
the back. The waist ia a pointed
BASQUE with shirred or plated paniers
attached, which curve in many folds
around the hips and lose themselves
under a great puff or other effective
arrangement on the back; or it's round,
gathered to q belt and fitted to the
shoulders by shirring. The sleeves
are demi.long or of the elbow style
as the waist may suggest, close-fitting,
or pulled in the armhole, and shirred
to fit the arm at the elbow-and the
trimming is one or two lace 1ounces,
surmounted by simple drapery and a
bow of satin or of watered ribbon.
Excepting the ronnd-gathered waist
with the shirred yoke, the same gen
eral style, as observed in the making
of costumes of nuns yelling and alba
tross obtains in silk costumes, while a
freak of the eason Incorporates red in
black silk costumes, the foundations
being of red faille or satin, and the
trimming embroidered f1ouncing or
Spanish lace, the sanguinary color
appearing through the interstices OF
the lace or the embroidery.
Late costumes from Paris, in combi-
nation of nuns yelling, albatross
cloth, or cashmere of light weight,
and satin, have the skirt of faule or
silk tsffetas, covered with box-plait-
ings of the satin from four to five
inches deep, a narrow bouff mt TONI
nure of the cashmere q d a paniertd
basque of thu csshnere, and this st, lie
Of making is perhaps as o oular as any
in which the dresses of the moment
are seen. But when made of q robe
pattern the style is either more severe
or more forid. One of the handsomest
models that the season has produced
is q Paris creation in cream-white al
batross cloth with rleh robe-bordering
of silk embroidery in Venetian point
lace design. The skirt is trimmed
with several ~plaitings edged with
small white worsted balls. The dra-
perry, bordered with the embroidery,
faIls over the front in wide lengthwise
plaits. and is a narrow boutfant tour
nure; the waist is deep basque, OPEN
ing in front with trimming of the
embroidery, On q vest which closes up
with small shot.like French frosted
gilt buttons; and covering thejunction
of the skirt and the waist is a scarf
drapery of enierald-green velvet-this
forming a succession of slightly diago-
nal folds on the front, and several deep
and wide loops on the back. The
sleeves are Of full length and finished
with a band of the embroidery and
drapery of the velvet an embroidered
collar finishes the neck, and crepe
lisse fills in the neck and the sleeves.
Robe designs exists ID all varieties
of the fashionable materials. They
are shown in equal numbers in the
silks, the wool IN and the cotton
fabrics and robes in the percales and
the sateens are sometimes devised in
the trimming or in the combination
employed. Very effective costumes
are made of sateens and percales of
solid grounding, trimmed with striped
or blossom bordering; the plain and
the printed csmbrics are combined
with robe effects, and the fureur for
robe costumes appears in a recent ma
terial in cotton of canvas texture with
blossom bordering of sateen en- az
plique, or applied. The Aounces which
trim the skirt are usually bordered I;
bordering edges the dripery and gar
nishes the waist and sleeves.