Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-04


they have established a sort of standard
for washing dresses, and the variations
from year to year are not important. This
year the favorite style for girls is very
simple. 1t consists of round tucked
skirt and tucked blouse, waist put inside
the skirt and worn with ribbon or velvet
belt. A rOsette of narrow velvet or satin
| ribbon is attached to the cOrsage. The
OXerskirt is often only an apron with wide
tucked sash, the whole of course trimmed
with embroidery, some Of which is very
fine and beautiful. A pretty style for
making these white washing dresses is
with the lower front in upright tucks,
with wide embroidery between a round
apron edged with handsome embroidery
and a sash tied over three deep, killed
1ounces at the back. In silk, muslin,
/ gauze, Grape or an unwashable material
| the draped apron would form a sort OF
| lambrequin over the hips and drapery,
slight, graceful and irregular, terminal
/ ing in point on either side the pleatings
/ at the back.
! White washing dresses, more or less
| handsome, are much used for graduating
! dresses, and at one house, where a spe-
cialty is made of them, very re-
! spectacle one can be purchased for about
/ Sl2. Thousands are sold every season.
/ 1t is quite time the schools that rank as
white namby-pamby graduating dress
and adopted some sort of academic gown.
! 1t need not be black nor clerical looking
/ but it ought to have a certain character
4 and dignity which white muslin has not
and never can have, because it is essen
I italy characterless, and needs something
! to safe it from milk and water. 1t is
! said that velvet will be used again upon
white lawns, muslins, and thin silk ma
l II a n
colors-garnet, terra Gotta, myrtle green,
and heliatrOpe upon white, black being
used more upon ecru and gray.
Gray muslins or thin wool trimmed with
| narrow fOunces, edged with several rows
of very narrow velvet, is extremely pretty,
and upon this young girls may wear the
masses of small peoples. buttercups, or
white and pink daisies, which are the
recognized badge of young womanhOOd.
| Thin gray and black or gray and white
dresses would form very suitable styles
| for graduating purposes, as each member
Of the class could be distinguished by her
favOrite flower without marrlng the gem
eral effect, and they would make modest
and useful evening dresses afterwards.
SUMNER WRAPS AND PARAsOLS.
The small richly trimmed mantles, the
half clOaks and the fussy garments of
every description are carefully avoided
!
fully to the clOse-ftting jacket, the Jersey
redingote and the small high-ftting Shout
der cape. In this they are guided by good
taste and correct judgment. ~F'ichus and
| fussy things, as a trimmed basque or
bodice, add to the apparent age of the
young, or rather detract from a fresh and
youthful appearance, and should be left
to older women who wish TO distract at
tentiOn from the evidences of their adj
bo
extraordinarily rich and effective. They
are made of velvet figured grenadine
lined with shot silk, always in some shade
of brown or ruby or violet, with gold.
The body part is a mass of glittering en-
broidery in amber and ruby and bronze,
or the embroidery may be executed in
hollow jet, and the edge finished with soft
full silk chenille and jet fringe above
ruffies of lace.
More severe styles consist Of small capes
and mantles of eseurial lace, which is eff
fective in itself and does not require the
addition of either lace or fringe. Small
capes and collars of lace or jetted
net fitted to the shoulder are among the
things which are not exactly new, but are
constantly taking on some little variation
of form, and are so convenient as an out
door addition to a toilet that does not re-
quire garment for warmth or drapery
that they always find purchasers.
Summer ulsters and busters viii be
made largely of light gray mOhair or al
paca. 1t is cool, does not take dust, and
is serviceable in travelling so long as 1t
does not get rained upon. Thin water
proof silk is most useful for protection
from showers, as it is hardly feather in
weight and can be put up in the smallest
compass.
Silk parasOls are now almost universal
" covered with piece lace cut to fit the
cores and stitched into the seams-nOt
made whole as formerly. Around the
edge is full ruche mot ruffie) Of lace,
the pendant edge being often formed of
flowers. This floral adornment is rarely
seen upon any but secondary parasOls,
such as are used for races or an excur-
sion by coach. The finest things are al
ways simple, and real lace would be vul-
CARRIED by artificial ornamentation. There
are many parasOls of cream-cOlOred lace
and surah, with bamboo sticks, and a
great variety in Powered Saline with lace
border, natural orange wood or olive wood
sticks, and a bunch of white clover tied
to the point where it closes.
The greatest novelty in lace-cOvered
parasols follows the fashion Of the fronts
of some of the new dresses, and lays side
pleats in silk covered with lace. ParasOls
of this description are necessarily small,
and the pleats form fiuted fan-shape
something like the faSnlOnaDle "acCOr-
deon" plaits. The effect is novel and
pretty, but they are expensive.
YACHTING OUTFITS
are attracting attention, as so much
yachting is to be done this year. A lady
who is to accompany her husband upon
an extended trip has just had a suit made
Of terra Gotta flannel trimmed with gray,
and embroidered upon the gray with blue,
yellow bronze and terra Gotta shades, the
embroidery forming the monogram and
insignia of the yacht. For a dinner dress
she has had short costume of Jacquemi-
not satin very richly trimmed with ruby
bronze and amber beaded trimming, and
finished with gold embroidered lace ar
ranged at the neck as a Marie Stuart
collar. wrapper Of white opera fan
mel, lined with soft silk plush is for cabin
use. The material is embroidered all
over with little figures in silk and gold.
Suits Of white flannel are to be much
used, mounted with terra Gotta, or gray
worked with terra Gotta. The blouse
waist with killed or pleated skirt is
largely used; but the case is one which
calls for Lady HabertOn's divided skirt.
Nothing could be more suitable as a COM
promise for yachting dress.
JENNY JUNE.