Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-01
FASHION NEWS AND NOTES.
Written for The Herald 5s {" Leone. .
MORNING WRAPPERS AND NEGLIGR cos
TUNES.

MORNING WRAPPERS AND NEGLIGE cos
TUNES.
The pleasantest neglige morning dress
consists of skirt and half-long sacque
called matinee. The skirt is slightly
gored in front and on the sides and is
quite full behind. The sacque is closely
fitted in the back, but may be straight
and loose in front, or else partly fitted to
the figure by dart on each side.
White cambria, crossbarred muslins
and plain white linen lawns are used for
these suits for general wear, and the
trimmings are ruffles with wrought scol-
Hoped edges, or else strong linen laces,
such as the medicis lace, the cluny pat
terms of linen thread, and the finer quail
tiles of torchon laces.
Insertions of linen lace down the fronts
of the sacque are used; and double frill
of lace trims the neck and sleeves.
AT the back of the basque are some
pleats laid smoothly upon each other, and
linen buttons outline the waist and fastens
the front of the garment.
The more fanciful of these dresses for
young ladies are of shear null trimmed,
the jabots of valencienes lace in the pref
ty designs now made by machine to copy
the handmade laces. Loops, ends, and
bows of satin ribbon of some becoming
color brighten up these dainty dresses
Where warmth Is . requisite, and for
seaside wear, twilled flannel in cream,
white or pale blue are used for these
gowns, and some white wool lace or rows
of white braid are used for the trimming.
Wrappers made for comfort and the
privacy of home are in the Mother Hub
bard shape, and are of inexpensive linen
lawns, American cambrics or Scotch
ginghams, with sprigs, bars or stripes of
color on light ground. The yoke is
tucked lengthwise, and the flowing
breadths have tucks or two ruffles of the
material at the foot. A Byron collar,
well turned over, has small tucks ON its
edges, and the sleeves are tucked at the
wrists and edged with frill. For those
who object to full gowns the Mother Hub
bard is shirred at the waist line in the
back, and have strings of the material to
tie in front
More dressy wrappers are in the long
Princesse shapes, with vatican fold
from the neck to the foot in the back, or
else they are cut off around the hips, and
the skirt is sewed there with an upright
frill. The fronts of these wrappers hang
straight from the throat to the foot, but
the back is fitted to the figure, and some
times belt of velvet is added across the
back between the under-arm seams.
White null or cambria wrappers are
made with vest of lengthwise tucks,
and the middle forms of the back are al
SO tucked from the top low down on the
tournure. The skirt is continuous with
the waist in the back and the tucks hold
part of the added fullness. Embroidered
edging is placed down each side of the
tucking in front and back. Whole
wrappers are made now of the all-over
embroidered muslics, so much used for
yokes and waists. These are of simple
shapes, usually being q partly fitted
sacque extended in length to the floor,
and worn with or without q sash ribbon.
cloth and challi goods, and line the waist
with thin silesia.
Dressing sacques are also made of the
muslins that are embroidered all over in
patterns of sprigs, leaves, dots or stars.
Nainsook and cambria sacques have
lengthwise or crosswise tucks in front to
represent vest, and are finished with
embroidery or frills of valencienes lace.
For extensive use, white Irish linen
sacques are made quite loose and of the
simplest shapes they have the French
back, which consists of only two pieces,
and the fronts have no darts taken in
them the sleeves are straigfItand wide,
and these with the Byron collar have an
insertion band for trimming.
White flannel sacques are made up in
the same way, with wool lace or inser-
ton for trimming, and if both the flannel
and lace are shrunk before making these
sacques can be sent to the laundress as
often as linen.
SHOES.
Low shoes are more worn out of doors
than they have been any previous sum-
mer.
The toes are medium and round and
the shoe either buttons or laces on the
instep. The heels are made both me-
dunn high and low.
Slippers of bronze kid are in favor for
dress.
The English walking shoes, with broad
soles and low broad heels, either laced
in front or buttoned on the side, are
commended for service and to those who
have tender feet. Lawn-tennis shoes of
canvas with rubber soles, are shown in
low shapes and also in high boots laced
in front, but it's safe to predict that no
Martinsburg woman is likely to hazard
observation wearing these latter mon
strosities. LEONE.