Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-05-20
GIRL GRADUATES.
Advice Worth Making Notes OF on
: Commencement Clothes.
AVOID CRUSH SHADED DRESSES.
The General Fitness and Beauty Of Black
and the Positive Utility Of White
.. LStin General Styles
for Sprin. ... -.....

Young girl graduates in choosing their
commencement dresses should select a
color which cannot be killed by direct
contact with discordant shade. While
the new pink shades of tulle are beauti-
full in themselves, and exceedingly be-
coming to bright cheeks and dark hair,
and the pale blues are ,wonderously
pretty and dainty-looking, still the
beauty of each is destroyed by being
placed next each other, or by one Of the
numerous shades of the crushed"
hues. The only safe colors for those
who form part ola bevy Of ladies,
either at
Commencement Exercises or Concerts,
are white, cream, the different ecrus
and black. Asa rule young ladies re-
ject the latter color. though nothing is
more generally becoming than black
lightened by white illusion or lace aud
frightened with flowers.
Where economy is necessary, no bet
ter selection can be made than white.
Such costume can be made ofthe most
expensive materials, or Of the cheapest,
according to the inclination of the
wearer. 4 sheer linen lawn, with
trimaIings of Valenciennes lace, makes
a costume which any one might wear.
For those who prefer
ALess Expensive Dress.
the Chantilly net seems especially
adapted. With prettily trimmed
skirt of any plain white material, differ
ent grades Of which may be had at any
price from % cents upward, the net
makes an appropriate Overdress, aud
looks well under any circumstances. by
dispensing with lace altogether a very
inexpensive dress can be made, which
will be pretty and becoming. Nothing
is more becoming to young girls than
simplicity, and attempts at display on
such occasions are not in good taste.
The long silk gloves of delicate colors
are suitable and much more comfOrta-
BILE than kids, and white kids are only
admissible with the most elegant
tOilettes. The
Most Elegant Materials
are trimmed with tucks, which mode
rivals the embroideries, and rows of
velvet ribbon. For street suits, the
fiOunces invariably show one of the
three modes of trimming. An exam
pie of the last named Aad the entire
back of the dress covered with alternate
gathered flounces of ecru aud garnet
checked silk. Three rows of inch wide
garnet velvet were around each tlOunce,
the lower one reaching across the front
and side breadthS. \ cooks apron of
ecTu cashmere was trimmed with the
velvet ribbon, and loops of the same
were thickly clustered upon the edge of
the basque. The cooks apron, which
is novelty, is made Of one breadth Of
the double width goods, and is long and
square ut the corners, extending just
back ofthe side breadths. 1t is shaped
to the belt 10y two darts, and the wrin-
kles across the front are formed by a
single bunch of gathers, quite high on
each side.
The Trimming
around the sides may be u thyee-inch
band of bias velvet, embroidery, Several
rows of sOutache, braid, or velvet rib
bon. The drapery at the back is usually
a short pouf of the material.
This apron is also seen on the wash
dresses with edging of embroidery or
lace. Some of these dresses have 40
drapery at all i'll the back, and many of
the white muslins have the apron COW
cred with embroidered figures with
corresponding edge. The colored cham
beryS have the flOunces Of the back of
plain goods and embroidered alternat-
ing, the plain ones being edged with
lace. y pale blue chambery may have
bows of scarlet watered robbOn on each
side of the ilOumCcS next to the apron.
The eerlS are made up with maroon,
pale blue or garnet bows all of which
must have very long loops. White
muslins are made in this style, rs are
also the fotllaris that have printed bOr-
ders, and the plain fOulards may be
used with colOred embroideries.
The materials mostly employed in
ParasOIs
are plain satin, heavy grOS-graln or
tOman or brocaded silks. LaceS of all
colors are extensively used in trimmings,
a new style being to place them on the
outside in fanciful designs and figures.
Narrow side and box plaitings are also
used, both single and double, and shirred
rutfies of narrow quilted ribbon for a
heading. The old style of pinked edges
is again revived, and when the parasol
is confined ut the top large gilt rings or
these made of braided cord are used.
Others are faetened at the lower edge
with u loop of ribbon, a paSsementerie
button or moss ornament with taSsel.
Some very pretty handles are of box,
Snakewood or olive wood, which are
delicately carved. The snake, or Loop
ard, as it is sometimes called from its
resemblance to the spotted skin, is often
highly polished to bring out the grain.
Some Designs
are very fantastic, such rs tiny mice
carved beautifully, fish held in the
mouth of a stork, brood of chickens
or an owl with jeweled eyes. Others
are hideous to look at, such as an ugly
Orang-outang or natural looking snakes
with ruby or garnet eyes. Ebony and
malacca wood sticks are mounted in
silver aud gold, and some of the ivory
handles are iniaid with silver, The
new pyrenecs has very long stick tied
with ribbon, and a long tip like an
alpenstOck. Two other hook designs
are the shepherds crook and the Zulu
hook, the first bend i'll the latter being
square. Handles shaped like Japanese
swords are seen in black French walnut,
and the celluloid handles are designed
in imitation Of ivory.
When the parasol is lined with con-
trasting shade, it is sometimes trimmed
on the outside with double row Of lace
falling over the edge, the outer row
matching the covering and the inner
row the lining. A bow of the two
shades trims the top, and has four or
five ends, either fringed or cut.
A Beautiful PatterR
is of black satin with an Embroidered
edge Of the same color, which Is faced
with band of white satin; portions OF
the embroidery is cut out leaving the
white satin exposed to view. Still
another is made of changeable blue and
salmon. colOred silk, the edges being re-
veled out so as to show y fringe Of the
salmon threads.
One of the leading styles for garden
parties is called the eclat. Ii has Il
ribs and is round at the edge when open;
is lined inside the ribs and bordered
with cream lace headed by 4 pinked
ruche, and has an oddly-shaped bow OF
two or more shades of ribbon III the
csntre of one gore, and q similar on the