Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-11
Country Dressing.

There is rather a curious contrast be-
tween the dressing of those who leave
the city to go to the country, and the
visitors from the country who wish to
show that they are not behind the times
in regard to fashion. The distinction is
chiefly one of color; country cousins are
given to color of a somewhat crude and
startling kind, and accept the statements
made by interested persons in regard to
fashionable shades and tints, and genu-
inc materials. They are also apt to
unite poverty Of fabric with showiness
in the trimmings, while the class of city
people who can afford to go into the
country and stay there pursue quite the
opposite policy, choosing quite good
materials, without perhaps anv trim
ming at all, and fail utterly to represent
style as it is understood among their
rural neighbors.
The polonaise costume seems to be
the favorite one for the country-belted
BROADLY down over a skirt of a contrast
ing color. The polonaise may be of
gray, blue, or bronze wool, or 1t may
be of chintz or lowered satteen, but IT. is
always made with an apron front,
round or pointed, if the latter crossed to
one side, and never open infront, which
leaves the skirt exposed and is only adj
missible in the case of a coat and much
trimmed skirt,
A great deal of embroidery is put up
on the dresses prepared for the u
try, especially upon suits of pongee and
lawn or cambria. The embroidered
trimming is not confined to narrow
ruff1ing. There is usually one piece of
flouncing wrought for the front of the
dress, which is half a yard in depth,
and this does not form the short apron,
but occupies the intermediate space be-
low it and is often supplemented by an
equal depth of embroidery about the
hips, which is draped as paniers. White
lawns are masses of what is by
courtesy called ''needle-work," though
if the ornamentation was executed with
the needle one dress would cost a small
fortune. Not only are the founces made
of embroidery, but the basque piece is
cut from it in the piece so that the dress
is entirely covered with it,
The most ~unbecoming toilets are the
large %checkered and plaid suits, and
there are many of them. Once in a
long while a checker-board dress and a
woman who can wear it may be seen,
but it is SO rarely that it would be a
blessing if the rigid designs were rele-
gated to the stove age, where they be-
long.
The wafer" large spotted designs,
are favorites for polonaise dresses, the
skirts being made of the plain material
in the dark color. A dark blue cotton
or wool watered with dull red has a
dark blue skirt trimmed with two killed
tlounces. The apron polonaise is belted
down with dark red leather or dull satin
and the straw hat and its feathers are
all OF the same shade, which is not con.
spicuous. Brown upon cert makes a
good combination and is ACCOMPANIED
by a brown straw hat, the two Shades
combined in its feathers.
Red or blue waters upon cream
grounds are used in cambria for the
%.'holokee' dresses copied from the
Sandwich Islands. They are simply
low frocks gathered into a square yoke
of white needlework and tuckino. and
are made with close or full sleeves Of
lawn, the latter slightly gathered into q
frin of needle-work, They hang loose
from the yoke, are not belted in. and
make very cool and pretty indoor morn
ing esses.-Jcnnie June, in Chicaoo
Evening Journal.
There is terrific social excitement
at Newport because a family has taken
a cottage and does not ..keep corriao as
and horses Everybody is WONDERING
what on earth they came to Newnorf
1or. IL is N OF thexmost remarkable
eases OF the kind on record.-M. =