The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-23
Imported Wash Dresses.

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Figured Swiss muslins, percales with
out glazing, ecru batistes, Chambery,
and Scotch ginghams are the materials
used by Paris modistes for the wash
dresses sent here to be worn next sum-
mer at Newport and Saratoga. The
old fashioned white Swiss muslin is
chosen for some of the prettiest white
dresses, and this is wrought all over
with small raised figures, detached yet
very close together; the clover-ieaf,
ciover-head and rosebud patterns are
among the prettiest, and the woven de-
sign has the effect of tambour-work.
His figured Swiss 10 used for the entire
dress. and its trimming consists of many
gathered ruffies of the muslin merely
scalloped in button-hole stitches on the
lower edge; when any lace is added, it
is usually Valenciennes, though the
Oriental laces are still in fa,or. A great
deal of shirring about the neck. Shout
ders, waist line and hips is seen on such
dresses, and many of them are shirred
polonaises with revers sides. or open in
front. with q long peplum point on each
side, or else the polonaise Is closed be-
low the waist to give round apron
front, or the waist crosses on the bust
| from right to left, and thus leaves @
apron front intact. These French
dresses are entirely without lin NO, and
the seams Of the waist are al covered
by feather-stitched bands, or else they
are joined by the narrow puzzled inser-
ton scarcely sixth of an inch wide
that is SO much used in French lingerie.
Cne pretty model, with sprigs of clover
leaves all over it, has an apron colo
na!se shirred on each shoulder, in front
and back, and also at the waist line.
1t is simply but very fully punched up
in the side seams and behind. The
trimming is single full ru lie of the
material scalloped on the lower edge.
with wide Valenciennes lace around the
neck in two gathered rows which also
| extend down the front to the waist.
The sleeves have only tritie of fullness
at the armhoie. and are finished below
the elbow by puff of Valenciennes net
and ruti.e OF lace that make the effect of
an under-sleeve. The skirt has all the
visible parts covered by tapping gath
cred RULES of the muslin scallOped;
altogether there are seven ru!fes on the
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the back, and each ruti,e is about a
fnger-length deep. Velvet or satin
ribbon two inches wide is used for q
throat bow, and also for pointed gr-
die that is placed below-not on the
waist line. This girdle is fastened in
its pointed front by filigiee CLASP, or
else by a rocco buckle of Jewels on
gilt, or cluster of Rhine-stOnes in sill
yer; it is then carried up tritle higher
on each side, and Is pointed behind,
from whence droops long Topped bow,
or else it is merely pointed sharply in
the back. and falls in chain Of long
loops and ends on the left side amid the
draperies. Porcelain blue, dull Titan
red, the light mushroom shades. salmon
and bright Spanish yellow are the col
ors used for these ribbons.
Yoke waists are on percale and ging-
ham dresses imported from faris, and
their trimmings are scallOps overcast
with the prevailing color in the mate
rial A white percale with tiny sprays
of the German corn-tlOwer in its natural
blue has a yoke basque. the yoke being
made pointed in back and front, with
its lower edges scalloped with blue; to
this yoke is gathered a basque which is
gathered again ut the waist, and its
sides are cut in short peplum points.
The pointed girdle is of corn-hower
blue satin ribbon. The collar is in By
ron shape, and this, with the turned
back cuffs, is scalloped neatly. The
skirt is nearly covered by three broad
puffs and three pleated founces of the |
material scallOped; the short Overskirt !
is crossed in front with wrinkled full |!
ness, and has its edge turned up in |
washer-woman fashion; there are seal !
lops at the top of the turned-up revers,
which is about an eighth of yard
deep. A blue G ngham, with bars of
the blue crossing to leave IN inch CT /.
white between, has square yoke, W tn |
blue scallops aad dots on its lower |
ehge. The draP,ry is long, and meets |
the scalloped RULES across the foot; the |
lower ruffle is supported by finely !
pleated bingham iuffies edged with .
lace. which are put there, not to be
seen, but to give full and fluffy ap-
Skirts of solid-colored Chambery in
the Titan red and old blue shades have
an insertion and edge of the white
worked antique lace, and are made to
represent q full round skirt below
peplum polonaise. 10 make this there
is first foundation ski t, and on this
is gathered five straight brtadlhs of the
Chambery, each yard deep, after the
wide insertion and lace are added. The
top of this deep ounce or part of a
skirt is hidden by the lower art of the
shirred polonaise. which has a velvet
collar, vest and cu!ls of Titan red o..
blue, and insertion and lace like the
skirt. Very dark grounds are seen on
some of the new percales, with gay
cOlored disks for the pattern, and these
are trimmed with ull frills of ecru en-
broidered lace. The polonaise of some
such suits is shirred in yoke shape, then
shirred again from the waist ne down
over the hips. Ecru figured batistes in
dots, blocks, and lace de igns are SINH
larly made and trimmed with sapphire
blue velvet ribbons, or with seal brown
or dark red, Nankin-a thick buff cot
ton fabric-is made up with vest of
white or bu Ma settles, with coat,
drapery and pleated skirt somewhat in
tailor styles. Viii picue braid is also
used for trimming the vest, over-skirt,
and box-pleated skirt of nankin dresses.
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