Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-21
COMBINATION DRESSES.
A Fashionable Caprice Which Is Not Alto
gether Without Merit.

gether Without Merit.
One of the caprices of the season is
that of combining materials that seem
incongruous in one dress, but the man.
ner of arranging does not change, the
preference being still given to plain
fabrics for the basque and drapery,
with striped or figured stuffs in the
skirt. For demi-season dresses there
are skirts of striped MORE and satin
showing olive, blue and red lines laid
over in pleats, and the over-dress of
dark blue wool of rough surface, with
vest OF the striped fabric; for mid
summer there will be canvas striped
skirts with basque and drapery of
Oh ma Grape. Moha;r with canvas,
alpaca with India silk. Bengaline silk
with wool lace, and dresses OF lace
made over watered silk are also fash
ionable combinations. One of the new
suggestions for street costumes is the
use of dark blue lustrous mohair with
vest and fan pleatings in the skirt
made of India red silk Grape; blue vel
vet ribbon is used double like binding
beside the vest and fans, and silver
eyelets are placed in this ribbon, with
silver cords run through them. An
other toilette that will be worn
in the first warm weather is
dress of light gray mohair with
the pleated skirt hanging plain, and a
fan front OF eight or ten pleats of white
canvas (etamine) set in from belt to
foot; the sides of the skirt are plain
like panels, with piped fold of the
mohair bordering them, while the back
tHa oh >o1~
naise is very slightly draped, and has
English mohair goods can now be
either single or double widths White
mohair or alpaca with small red and
blue Pompadour figures is being made
up by the modistes IN afternoon dresses
for young ladies to wear at the sea-
side and mountain resorts. Some vel
vet of dark shade to give character to
the dress and white bison laoes are the
trimmings. Another combination is
that of soft satins in bayadere stripes
Al ound the skirt, with plain surah for
the over-dress; the new Sicilienne pop
Inns also come in plain shade for the
basque, with velvet stripes around the
skirt; ecru Sicilienne with blue velvet
stripes on the skirt makes handsome
costume for visiting and for day re-
captions. while a simpler dress for a
young lady has a skirt of Algerienne
striped satin, with the basque and
sash drapery of dark olive green satin
surah.
A favarite way of combining two
fabrics in every part of the dress is
that of putting a single width of the
figured goods down the back and the
front of the skirt, while the sides are
of plain goods. laid in pleats toward
the front. and full breadth of this
plain fabric is placed each side of the
figured goods in the back; the three
back breadths then hang straight and
are gathered to the belt while over
them as drapery are two pointed
wing-like pieces of plain material,
and there are short lambrequin-hke
draperies on the sides and front. The
basque of such dress should be of
plain goods, with V-shaped piece of
the figured stuff set in the front and
back, and arranged in folds or pleats
on the collar and cuffs. These v
shaped pieces are inserted-not set
on-and are especially becoming to
those who have short waists, as it
gives the appearance of length and
Slenderness now in favor. Another
fashion. also becoming to stout figures,
is that of striped stuts for the basque,
such as MORE and satin stripes each
an inch wide, or the new canvas goods
that have stripes of velvet or watered
silk. while one of the most tasteful
novelties is ecru pongee striped with
brown, red, or blue velvet The
skirt then can be almost entirely of
the plain fabric, with merely borders
of the stripes, or else fans of it set
in the sides, or in the way described
above for a single front and back
breadth.-Harper' Bazaar.