The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1883-10-13
For the Fair Sex.

"A pretty material for evening |
dresses is Melbourne foulard. 1t makes
up very stylishly in cream color, with
draped scarfs trimmed with wide loops
and ends of ruby velvet.
-Collerettes of lace take the form of
high ruffs or of a row of lace turned
down over a ribbon passing around the
neck, finished by two jaboSs side by
side, giving square effect.
The economical will be glad to learn
that silks will be cheaper than ever in
the fall, as thousands of pieces of last
years silks have lately been purchased
at Lyons at cost price.
The only wraps which young girls
wear are the pelerine pelisse, the pale
tot, and the Carrick, which last is a
double cape with ruche around the
neck, and fastened with bow of
ribbon.
Little girls of from to frequently
wear the Louis XIV jacket with large
revers forming a.collar, and pockets in
the same style. Under the loose waist
coat is worn plated skirt.
1t is not at all likely that the Jer-
sey will remain fashionable garment,
for it has already become common but
it has made certain place for itself,
and will remain through fluctuations or
fortune as the basque and the polonaise
and the blouse waist have done. The
Jersey is easy and delightful wear for a
good figure and for informal occasions.
1t fits like glove, yet admits of much
freedom of movement its elasticity
does away with all sense of binding or
pressure but for this very reason a
round, flexible, graceful form is an in
dispensible qualification in the wearer,
and no angular or made-up figure
should ever attempt Jersey"
Domestic Goods.
The American manufacturers come
to the fore this season, SURPRISING all
previous efforts, and fairly rival those
of foreign manufacture in magni6cence
and beauty. The superb brocades OF
ottoman grounds are strewed with
sprays of shaded roses and other flowers
On black satin grounds enormous jar.
diniere designs are in high relief of cut
velvet on, plain velvet. The American
satin marveilleaux, satin armures, ar
mure Dijons, plain satins and velvet
gros-grains are equally elegant of thu
above scribed shades. These are al
duplicated in delicate colors for evening
toilets, such as brilliant golden olive
manila, eglantine pink, light blue
creamy white, the pale milky way, AM
maize.
The odd conceit of uniting two mate
rials in the way of placing the fgure'
2 fabric below and the PLAN above will b
, revived, with also the fashion of wear
. ing plain velvet basques with differen
q skirt. Some of the new fabrics for tn
q cold season are excessively coarse am
8 rough, like blankets. Wide stripes ac
company the plain goods.
Ribbons.
= Two kinds of ribbons are used--th
: very narrow satin ribbons for garuitur
s and the very wide for sashes there
i medium width employed for belts
y but these hardly count. The 'happ
It thought" of clustering very narro'
e satin ribbons i'll different shades an
% colors as rosettes, bows and groups {
loops with ends, has revived that fol
merly highly favored kind of garnitur'
> and given it stimulus unknown bt
:. fore. -Four hundred yards has bee
. put, it is said, on one dress, and tbs
). may not represent the maximum, sinC
the Juror has only just set in. 1t
: more than probable, however, that
- =. will soon expend itst If, as the violen'
- of a storm is its own prophecy of speed
abatement.
In sash ribbons are some new styl
y' of unexampled beauty. The exquisi
le late patterns seen in brocaded silk al
ig velvet upon some rich fabrics, ha
ne been transferred to elegant ribbo
OF with great success, entirely coyeril
's' ruby and rese-pink or wine-colored 81
es faces with frost-like tracery whi
perfectly reproduces the rarest fabri,
sls There are other ribbons which are bi
on caded so as to represent the finest ha
k embroidery of conventional kind a
JIG still others In duchesse satin with
IN striped centre Of moire In the so
on color.