Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-01
Fashion Items,
Black toilets are AGAIN in hioh y,

DA"SA GoAAoCS dlo again III ulSu vogue.
Classic and aesthetic styles of dresses
are still affected by many fashionable
ladies both here and abroad.
Quaker gray, amber, dove, and silver
satlns are imported, made in superb and
elegant simplicity, with court trains
u%nadorned, the only trimming upon the
dress being a bertha and frills at the
wrists of old lace of rare design and
value.
Transparent muslins are shown in
exquisite tints of mauve, tea-rose, pale
almond, sapphire blue, and cameo, with
laurel blossoms, mossbuds, sweet-briar
roses, Strawberries, and geraniums in
single clusters scattered over the delicate
ground.
1t is now quite the fashion to hand
paint your given name upon the handle
or panel of your parasol, your pocket
book, glove-top, etc. The Mauds and
the Ethels and the Graces will likely
adopt the fancy; the James and the Han
nahs and the Jerushas will doubtless
deride it.
Blacktoilets, especially in airy fabrics,
over either a black or b~right-colored
foundation, are now in the height of
fashion. Such dresses are Of black
Chantilly, Spanish lace, brocaded gren-
adine, or silk gauze, trimmed with
plated founces alternating with those
of lace. Some of the imported dresses
of black, lace and other %diaphanous
fabrics, are trimmed with exquisite silver
passementeries and ornaments forming
pendants at the ends of narrow satin
ribbons upon the tabilier and scarfs,
and at the edges of the %crenelated bod
ice. Silver lace is also used, and the
draperies are held with silver buckles
in tiligree in old Roman designs.
Worth is employing for some of his
handsomest toilets brocades with flow
ers gigantic enough to vex, by the size
of the figures, even his consummate art
at arranging materials to make them
reasonably quiet and u%nobtrusive. This
he manages chiefly by using only a
small quantity of this gorgeous mate
rial in each dress, and never using itfor
the corsage. One of his latest creations
is a golden olive satin, with aground of
dark olive brocade, the figure being a
huge magnolia with foliage in shades of
golden olive and pale greens. The
train is of the plain golden satin andthe
skirt is Of the brocade. The front is
caught up slightly to show a narrow
knife-plaited ruffie of dark olive satin,
over which falls a fringe composed of
little silk floss balls in the varied tones
of the brocade.
Waistcoats of almost every shape and
material are exceedingly fashionable,
but this style of bodice demands the
most careful fit and finish, otherwise
their introduction will mar the good
effect of an otherwise stylish toilet.
Amateur dressmakers and ladies who
cannot command the services of the
best modistes would do better to limit
their desires to those added trimmings
which, though less aspiring, are quite as
fashionable and much more easily ar
ranged. For example, suppose a per-
fectly plain close-ftting corsage. On
this may be placed a plastron Of satin
or lace, either long or short, wide or
narrow, as is best suited to the figure of
the wearer. Shirred silk fichus edged
with lace are also easily adjusted, and
number of these in white and pale even
ing shades make a pretty variety for
Frightening a single dress of black silk
OF satin.-M. z. Evemimg Post.