Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-30
Velvet Novelties.

Velvet is the favorite material for tho
season, and is imported in new weaving
that makes the richest fabrics for we'd
ding dresses, and in simpler designs of
small figures for parts Of the costumes
worn by young ladies who have Just en-
tered society. For the elaborate trains
of wedding dresses there are cream
white velvets with the brocaded figures
of uncut velvet with the Topped threads
crimped in a most effective way. There
are also ottoman velvets of cream white
with the ribbed grounds thickly strewn
with large white roses Of velvet with
long silky pile. For a Widows wedding
dress these white roses have the edges
outlined with delicate lavender or
mauve shades. Striped velyets are
shown for the petticoat fronts of dresses
of plain velvet, and these have alternate
stripes Of light satin brocade; thus
stripes of garnet velvet two inches wide
are separated by wider stripes of cream
satin with ciel blue figures, while dark
green velvet stripes have satin bands of
olive with dull red flowers. A novelty
s a.Sicilienne repped ground with raised
velvet figures Of contrasting col
ors. All the new colors are
seen in these pretty fabrics for basques,
such as blue gray Sicilienne with golden
brown velvet flowers, moss green with
seal brown figures, and gray with the
relief of red autumn leaves. For the
waists and drapery or the. entire over
dress for young ladies' costumes there
are neat small designs of roses, leaves,
or square figures OF satin sunk in velvet
of deep pile of some contrasting color.
These are handsome also in monotone,
as in two shades of green brown or gray,
dull red, or green. A tasteful costume
worn by a young lady at an afternoon
wedding had an over-dress of this vel
vet in two shades of pigeon gray, with
a skirt of cashmere OF a still lighter
shade arranged in the new plaits that
are so thickIy lappedthat only the edges
of the plaits are seen. These plaits are
lengthwise like a kilt, and the velvet
over-dress is a very boutfant vertugadir
polonaise. The Henri Trois hat was o.
plain gray velvet, darker than any o.
the gray tones of the dress, and its
great panache of feathers repeated all
these gray shades. A bunch of pink
roses in the corsage frightened up thi:
refined toilette, and proved that gray i
not an old or a cold color, as is some
times asserted. There are also distin
guished looking trained dresses nov
made of plain gray velvet, notably ont
worn lately ut a Grace Church wedding
by the mother Of the bride. The bacl
was in princesse shape, not draped, bu
in full flowing plaits, while the from
breadths were drawn up on the RICH
side by a rosette of the velvet, an
there we're no lace and fiounces use,
for trimming. Among other rich vel
vets for the fronts of dresses are thos
with cream or black grounds of velve
/, with nfoss-roses of natural colors il
, satin brocades and in the crimped un
, cut velvet threads. These reach til
price of twenty-five dollars a yard, an
rival in costliness the Siciliennes tina
: have flowers made entirely of beads G
all colors woven into the fabric in a wa
!, that is more durable than when tn
beads are sewed on. -Harper's BaaG'.