The Portland daily press., 1884-01-30
THE COMING STYLES.

Scarcely are the holidays over before the
city shop keeper begins showing on his conn
tiers the attractions for the coming season.
Naturally the cotton goods are first in the
list, and many ladies take advantage of the
lull that comes in February and March to
make up these fabrics and have them ready
for wear when they are required. The earliest
importation of the colored cotton goods are
percses, a French cambria of rather firm tex
ture, satteeus, which ara to be as popular
next summer as they ha~e been during the
past two seasons, and the thin sheer batistes.
The newest fancy is for stripes, repeating in
these cotton fabrics the features of this winter
in the rich velvets and silks; the stripes are
large and show two colors in vivid and marked
contrast. Among the combinations used in
these stripes are black with white, Indian red
with pheasant brown, that is brown which
has golden light in it, Pompeian red and
blue, buff and blue and red with gray. Some
of it, especially in the wide stripes, looks re-
markably like furniture covering, and it is
prettier in the narrower stripes of an inch and
half an inch in width. Still the wide stripes
are very fashionable and will be extremely
stylish. Some of these goods in stripes show
These give very pretty effect of color.
Blocks and checks are seen also in these cot
ton goods, and they reproduce the colors and
combinations of Scotch ginghams and also of
the gay Madras ginghams that have so much
deep red and olive in them. One sees, too,
the dots and balls of last year, rsappearing,
and th5y seem to have as much of hold on
the popular fancy as ever. The most novel Of
all the designs that ara shown in the percales
and satteens, have delicatsly tinted grounds in
pale blue, faded rose and very light buff, that
is scarcely deeper than ivory, on which are
tapestry figures that look as if they were
worked in the old fashioned cross stitch in
the oriental coors. This needle work effect
has been seen this winter in some of the In
dian goods that have been called tapestry
woods, although they have not been common,
for they have been scarce and expensive.
Many of the designs that were seen last year
on Indian silks are reproduced in the cotton
satteens this year. There are blocks and balls
of what is known as cashmere colors," that
is the colors seen in Indian shawls, on dark
red or ecru grounds. The most exquisitely
dainty designs are what are called Dresden
china" or "Watteau" patterns; these show
flowers in faded hues on rose, porcelain blue
and ivory ground; these Dresden china de-
signs are also shown on a turquoise, blue
ground work that is as lustrous satin it,
self. Another pretty effect is seen in the
small stripes which ara shown with tiny rose
buds. Some of the percales show Japanese
designs of birds and even human figures in
outline. The immense Japanese chrysanthe-
a dull rod rk
blue or pale buff grounds. Designs of acorns
are new, and so are holly branches and ber-
ries. These fabrics may be made up with
plain solid colored materials. that are imported
for the purpose, but the fancy so far SIS has
been revealed, will be for dresses made en-
tirely OF the figured material
There is little change in the way of making
these dresses, indeed, wash materials must be
always made with reference to the need OF
laundering, although these fns goods with
lustrous surfaces may be wora long time
without the need Of washing, il only proper
care be taken of them. The under skirt is
short and round, and is trimmed with gath
cred ruffies; the over skirt is arranged in full
draperies, but 50 simply that it may be easily
Embossed for doing up; the body is an uElined
pOcbilOu udS4uOs anu buc olobNcS may NO .
plain coat sleeve open a little way up the back
seam at the wrist, or elbow sleeve with
ruff1e; the trimmings will be of ruff1es of the
material either plain or edged with white EN-
broidery in open English designs. 1t is proba
BILE that the cambrcs, which will be opened {
few weeks lstor, will follow these finer cottor
fabrics very closely in design and in color. /
is good plan to make these cotton dresse
early SO that they will be ready when needed
and the time in the spring can be given to thu
more particular and expensive costumes which
are needed for the season. Chidrens' summe
school dresses can also be made now, and ad
vantage taken of the reduced prices at which
last summers goods are being sold now. It i
we'll not to have the children's things nltr
fashionable, SO last seasons cambrics will
Just as good and pretty.
THE soILED LINEN BAG.
Too great care cannot be exercised, so th
physicians insist, upon the care of soiled bod
linen. 1t should be kept apart from the rel
of the clothing in preparing for the laundr!
and should never be washed until after til
table and bed linen. Even when the utmoS
care is taken of the skin, and the linen change
often, there will be impurities constantly escal
ing through the skin, that necessitats care