Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
IN EVERY STYLE.
Dresses For Balls and Dresses For Chill
dren-Something to Please Everyone.

Dresses For Balls and Dresses For Chill
dren-Something to Please Everyone.
Embroidered tulle is the fabric fer
ball dresses, and is shown in all deli
cate tints of cream, rose, or blue, with
detached sprays of flowers wrought in
dark floss or with gilt or silver threads,
and sometimes with both, and also
veined with fine arrasene. French
modistes use faille under tulie, but the
preference here is for satin, as it's lus-
ter enhances the beauty of the thin
tulle, and in many eases the corsage is
OF the satin alone, or else there is a
bertha of tulle at the top, The low
corsage of tulle dresses is decidedly
round, being round at the top and
round at the waist line, where q Swiss
belt or a sash of some kind completes it.
One pretty bodice has the tullc put on
in folds at the top of the low corsagc
INC crossed to the waist in surplicc
fashion; rows of daisies, or a single
row OF larger roses, pass around the
neck, and the short skirt has a border
OF these flowers massed at the foot;
this is seen in plain white tulle over
pale green or blue satin, and recalls
the simple dresses worn by debutantcs
ten or fifteen years ago. The short
skirts are made in ballet style, with
flounce after flounce of tulle, each lap
ping over that below it for the front
breadths, while the back is in waterfall
pleats of doubled Lyons 'tulle, falling
straightfrom the waist to the foot. En-
broidered null and plain null trimmed
with Valcenciennes lace are still worn
by young girls, but the fancy now is for
silken fabrics, such as silk-muslin or
Chambery gauze. There are also fewer
white wool dresses worn this season,
as these were general wear for after
Moons in the summer; there are. how
ever, some fine embroidered nuns veil
ings that are AS effective as China Grape
when trimmed with the point Espagnol
laces.
The little Gretchen dresses are made
up for small girls who walk in bridal
professions, or 10 wear at afternoon
parties. The fuli round skirt gathered
to the waist may be made OF an en-
broldered tlounce. or it may have three
or four heru-stitched tucks above a
hem, or there may be three little frills
of lace around it. The plain round
waist of muslin is cut half-low and
round in the neck, and has u revers of
embroidery or lace to fall over care
lessly; the front has a piece of embroid-
cry or else tucks inserted, and is banded
across three times with white satin
ribbon an inch wide, tied in a small,
bow at the end of each strap. A wide
sash of the muslin is sewed in tho
under-arm seams. and tied behind in ;
large bow, giving Il very bouifant cf
feet. This low waist is worn over F,
high guimpe of muslin, trimmed with
full frill around the neck, and mad
with long sleeves gathered in at tn
wrist by a band of ribbon, and fnishc.
With a friil. White icamcl's-hair o
bison-cloth dresses for larger girls m
also made in this peasant style, and ar
finished around the skirt with tucks. Q
with rows Of silver or gilt braid. Th
waist may be made high, and tn
guimpc only outlined with swan's-dow
and with the gilt or silver braid.-Ha.
per'S B0zar.