Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-20

never weary asking: Mamma, tell us
how big Jack and Jill were married,
and lived happy YER since. Good
Housekeeping.
PoLONAiSES.
Latest Modes for Sash. Coat and Other
Dresses.
The new polonaises which Madame
Raymond says are only polonaises in
part are found among the latest inn
portations of French dresses. These
are quite varied in design, some Of
them being severe, straight and state
Unlocking, while the more bonffant and
youthful styles r also represented. Of
the latter is n pretty and simple fash
ion that will be popular, because it is
a design that will be useful for modern
lzlng last years dresses. This is a
polonaise in the back only, being mere
~ a pointed bodice or closely fitted
basque. heightened in the back by a
sash-like drapery tied IN one or two
broad, long loops, and below these
there are two ends that hang the whole
length of the skirt beneath. This is
handsome in either wool or velvet
(the two fabrics now most used for
corsages), and may be made of a SIM
pie striped fabric which matches in one
OF its stripes the color of the basque,
or elco- tho regular sashes may be used,
as these can now be bought in wool or
in velvet with stripes along one side, or
else a plain ground with stripes form
ing a border across each end.
This sash polonaise is handsome
in dark wool, with gay stripes
attached to a pointed basque of
the plain, diagonal wool, with a vest or
plastron made of the stripes. It is also
considered very dressy when made of
black or dark velvet for the pointed
corsage, with cashmere-striped velvet
for the sash. With such a polonaise
the skirt will be of plain velvet laid in
a few plaits, with wide kilt front, or
else the skirt will have q f%ull-shirred
back, and there will be a deep apron Of
the plain velvet covering the front,
turned upward on the left side, and
widely faced there with the striped
goods of the sash. This costume is so
easily made that it will commend itself
to the home dress-maker as a good de-
sign either for new dresses or renovating
old ones. For instance, a velvet cos
tune of last year can have all its best
parts put into a skirt that has straight,
full, gathered back breadths, with
either a wide box plat in front, like
that on q boys kilt, or else q draped
apron; the worn lower parts of the
basque can be cut off to make a pointed
waist, and the upper part of the front
can be renewed by a striped velvet
plastron, with revers up each side that
nearly cover the old front part. This
plastron and the sash drapery are all
the new parts required, and can be
made of four yards of striped velvet. or
else of a sash. with half a yard Of sim
liar velvet for the plastron, high collar,
and bias fold which forms cuffs inside
the sleeves. Sometimes the gloss of
satin. OF of beaded silk, or of fraille
franchise. is preferred for this plastron
because it is more becoming
style than that with "A sash, consisting OF
basque front. with the polonaise part
confiued to the four middle back forms.
which are heightened below the waist
line to make two long fiat tabs that ex-
tend to the foot of the dress. These
tabs are about half a yard wide, are
lined with silk or satin lining through
out, and if striped need not be
trimmed, but when made of plain
cloth they are bordered with velvet or
| with galloon two or three inches wide.
A pretty fancy for the front of this gar
ment is to make of the wool goods a
square Figaro jacket opening over a
soft satin vest that is be1ted at the waist
line aud cut off there. The wool dress
patterns that come partly plain and
partly striped are made up in this way,
using the stripes for the polonaise and
for the front of the skirt, which is
draped in a Greek apron that shows
plain velvet at the foot, while the back
is made of two full gathered breadths
of the plain wool. Dark plum or navy
blue wool diagonal with Persian stripes
is made up in this way, with dull red
velvet at the foot of the front breadths,
and either plum or blue satin for the
vest. In order to make the vest warm
enough, light flannel is laid the
silrsia lining beneath the satin.
A third design for polonaises, very
effective when made of ladies' cloth
over q velvet skirt, is really a princesse
dress with the fronts turned back from
waist to foot to form very wide revers,
on which cross bands or points of braid
and wood buttons are set. The front OF
the corsage also turns back in revers
from the waist up to the shoulders, and
discloses a vest of plush or of velvet
| like that of the skirt. The back is laid
in wide double box pleats, and orna.
| mented with braid and wood buttons,
and there are large square pockets on
the sides. This polonaise will be hand.
some in brown, black or blue cloth.
with the plush or velvet skirt laid in a
wide box pleat in front from the waist
to the foot. while the sides and back Of
the foundation skirt have velvet only at
the foot in the small space visible below
the long p%olonaise.
Still another polonaise is like a great
redingote, and so nearly conceals the
lower skirt that only Il very plain skirt
is required, with a narrow pleating Of
the material at the foot. This %polonaise
is long all around and entirely I'M
draped, being slit up in the skirt tt
form six long fiat tabs, one tab being
in each front, q tab on each side being
made of combinations of the two side
forms, while each middle form of the
back extends in a separate tab. These
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