The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-02-16
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 colors, and with borders or
without them. The percales are espe-
cially pretty in their cobweb patterns,
on white grounds with web.like lines,
on which gay figures are thrown. There
designs combining blue with pink, or
rose with gray, and showing birds,
baskets of flowers, tiny landscapes, or
pipes, shepherdess hats, and flowers
bound UP with ribbons. The polka
dots prevail, however, in all the soft fin
ished gopds, and come. in all dark
bronze, brown, garnet and blue shades.
The Madras cloths are the popular
zephyr ginghams in all the old-fash-
ioned checks, bars and stripes that
wash and wear so we'll, and in many
new contrasts of color besides. The
cheviots are excellent for service, and
represent the twilled and plaid effects
Of the Scotch wool cheViots. English
calicoes, heavier than percales, come in
the chintz patterns that they always
repeat from French calicoes, and in the
popular polka dots of white on dark
grounds the latter are particularly
liked in black and white for ladies
dressing in mourning.
Satinette is a new cotton fabric that
can scarcely be distinguished from fou-
lard, as it is " silky" even to the touch.
This has costly twilled surface, is not
nearly SO thick as the usual cottt sat-
ines, and is brought out in most ali site
colors and designs, with plain satinutte
10 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 satipette will be used with
the cream ground, 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 ex'
cellent foundations for the satinettes in
stained-glass designs, as those are
called that cover the fabric with figure s,
leaving no single color for the ground
similar designs were ueed last year in
foulards, and were sometimes employed
for the entire dress, though com
binations 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 pinl
| grounds strewn with carnations, nastur
tiums of natural size, baskets filled will
flowers, bouquets without baskets ant
bird patterns of most varied colorng
All these pretty designs are repeated il
sheer batiste of most beautiful qualit,
that is handsome enough to be mad
up over silk; fifty cents yard is tn,
price of the satinettes and also of tn
new batistes. Fine cambrics and shirt
ings have blue grounds with whit
figures, or white with colored figures
The new pattern for these is called ih
Comet of 1881, and represents tw,
comets crossing each other, one blut
the other red, or some other contrast
ing colors. There are also anchor pat
terms, rings, squares, stripes, bars, tn
curved line of beauty forming the lette
S, horseshoes and polka dots so smal
that they are mere specks of color grad
uating up to those like great balls O
moOns.-Harper's Bdsar.