Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-28
STRAIGHT SKIRTS.
II Kind of Outer Garments at Present
In Vogue.


While many new dresses are made in
the old style of draped overskirts, tab
liers, hip draperies and pufs and bout
FAINT loopings in the back, the straight
skirts are most in vogue. and are pop
ular as much for the relief they give
the wearer, the dressmaker, and the
laundress as for their classic beauty.
But such is the variety and latitude
permitted in this as in other matters of
dress it is still possible for every lady
to attire herself according to her indi-
vidual taste and in conformity with the
requirements of fashion without wear
ing what everybody else does. For
straight skirts the style called the
c%oulisse is in high favor at the moment.
The coulisse is a shirred skirt, the shir-
ring being repeated several times within
a space from two to three inches below
the gathering thread at the top, where
the skirt is fastened On to the corsage.
All gathered or pleated straight skirts
are now attached to the waist, whether
it is pointed or round, bslted or with a
short basque. In these shirrings the
fullness of the skirt is not equally divid-
ed all around. The greater part is
massed at the back. The rest is scat
tered owe the hips and sides to the
front, where it is almost plain or UNI
gathered. The lighter the stuff the
more ample the skirt, of course.
The weight and amplitude of the skirt
at the back are sustained by a rigid,
p%rotuberant hustle, which is fur
Their enlarged by a moderate
pad of hair placed under the
skirt at the back, and sometimes ex-
tending on the hips. This style is
very new. and not universally adopted,
but it shows the tendency Of fashion
in the matter of dress skirts. All
skirts of dresses not trained or dem;-
trained are now cut shorter. That
is to say, the bottom of the hem
barely touches the instep in front,
and shows the whole foot, heel and
all. just covering the ankle. Girls
with bigs feet. Cincinnati girls espe-
cially. will seriously object to this
fashion, but those with such feet as
the Chicago girls, and all the girls
ecstasies over this short skirt. To
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ing it more emphatically the skirt of
the oma with a pretty foot, the
coul'sse skirt is finished only with a
flat trimming at the bottom. No
plating or balayeuse is permitted.
Nothing but a selvedge border woven
in the material, or some ornament of
braid or embroidery, but more FREE
quently nothing but a hem. A small
ruche or fiat plating is sometimes
placed under the hem, but it must not
project more than a line, or a quarter
Of an inch below it, andmust be rather
suggestive of an undersk,r TT of the
same color than a trimming or a
%balayeuse. This coulisse skirt adj
mits of more variety than might be
supposed. Sometimes 1t is slashed on
one side or the other, or directly in
front, or on both sides, opening half
way up over a deep band of embroid-
cred stuff, or of plush or velvet, or
any substantial material preferred,
trimmed with rows of braid or galloon
of a contrasting color or of gold tin
sci, and producing the effect of a petit
coat. This idea is then carried out
by opening the corsage in front over a
waistcoat of the same material as that
of the skirt under slashes. and
trimmed also to match the ame..-
Clara Belle. IN Cincinnati Enquirer.