Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-26
Various Skirts.

ArSery full effect is given to the skirts
ing dresses not merely bv the lone
loose plaits that form the entire sk;rt
VI mat appear in clusters wherever the
oEapery does not conceal the lower
sklrt' II also in a new and simpler way
oy a single deep gathered tlounce that
essln Just below the short and bouffant
Grapery that surrounds the hips, but
does not extend far below them. This
nolnce falls straight and full to the foot.
with perhaps a border, embroidery. or
lace on its lowest edge. It must be re-
membered that under all this appear
ance of a straight round skirt such ~
was worn a generation ago there is a
closely gored narrow skirt we'll faced
With crinoline to make it q substantial
foundation skirt, and finished with a
SILK plating outside and a muslin and
lace %balayeuse plating inside. This
silk foundation is now often of a color
IN contrast to that which covers it. or
else to match the basque and drapery
IN preference to the lower skirt; thus a
red silk foundation skirt is under a
changeable green and red silk in which
green predominates, and an ecru silk
foundation is under a maroon silk skirt
that has ecru cashmere draperies. Sim
pie andstylish silk skirts of checkeds silks,
the plain Surahs, and the striped Surahs
fall full from the waist over the founda-
ton skirt, and descend below the knees,
where they are gathered to the founda-
ton to form two flounces, tapping, each
about six inches deep. These straight
tiounces have the lower edges faced
with silk that does not appear outside,
and many of the founces of thin sum-
mer silks are lined throughout with thin
crinoline lawn in the old-fashioned way,
and are then faced with silk as Just
.ssnoted. The little plating at the foot of
Foundation skirts seems to be a neces-
sity for supporting the fiabby tlounces
OF soft silks and cashmeres; even dresses
of ,Chambery and of linen lawn have a
silk skirt and plating underneath, with
utter disregard of the question how they
are to be laundried. The box-plaited
skirts with the plaits sewed together at
the top are allowed to fall in flowing
plaits below the knee.
One of the prettiest simple 'footings"
for the skirt of a dress, either silk or
wool, is three knife-plaitings, each a
finger deep when finished, placed to lap
so deeply that only an inch of the lower
tiounces is visible after the top one is
stitched OF by machine an inch below
the top, leaving an erect heading of an
inch-wide frill. Another stylish finish
for the foot.o a silk skirt is one bias
gathered rufle of silk six inches deep
after the edges are turned up. This is
gathered an inch below the edge, and a
row of lace or of embroidery three
inches deep is gathered with it and falls
on the silk founce amid its fullness.
This is handsome when made of black
ottoman Or gros grain with French lace
gathered upon it, or of white MORE with
black French or Spanish lace, or OF
Havana brown silk or satin with ecru
embroidered batiste lightly gathered
upon it. For more elaborate dresses OF
black silk, or of white silk, or muslin,
French lace is used in three tapping
flounces, or else there is a deep lambre
quin flounce of wide lace made by ar
ranging broad double box plaits of the
lace, and putting a gathered festoon Of
the lace between each box plat. This
festoon is mercy the lace tlounce gath
cred at the top and sewed or in a deeI
curve. Sometimes a square bow of satin
is set on top of each box plat, and in
other cases it is placed on the curved
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