Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-28
suRAn DRESSES.
n Most Popular Material for Stylish sam
mer Costumes.

The Most Popular Material for Stylish ssin'
mer Costumes.
Silk surahs-not satin surahs-are
largely imported for summer dresses
either for the house or out-of-doors; in
the latter case they are often combined
with canvas. Plaid and striped surahs
are used for the basque and skirt, with
sleeves and long drapery of plain can
vas. Thus a blue and white plain surah
is made up in a surplice basque with
blue canvas sleeves, a lower skirt OF
seven straight gathered breadtlls OF the
plaid silk over which is a deep drapery
of the wide blue canvas made in n
piece, with sclvagc at the foot, forming
a deep apron front, and drapcd in high
plaits far back on the %tournure, where it
is attached to the point OF the basque,
and drops IN two long pointed wings.
Some gilt braid as shoulder straps is
laid along the shoulder seams of such
dresses, and a blue satin ribbon two
inches wide is worn around the waist
like q military sash, falling low on the
left side of the skirt, where it is COM
plcted by gilt tassels. Plae and red
plaid surahs are similarly made with
blue canvas, also beige with green, and
mastic with rcd. Small rough straw
pokes peaked in front and back arr
brought out with such dresses in red,
blue or beige %colors, trimmed with many
high loops of ribbon only an inch wide,
or else with still narrower quarter-inch
ribbons of many colors in one rosette.
Black surah dresses for summer are
made up with a white gathered vest of
silk or dotted si1k-muslin, and revers
and sash Of artistic stuf1s and new soft
silks in pale olive shades, or peach
blow, pale yellow or copper red, or else
with garnet bead passemcntcrie for
trimm ng. To introduce a tile color
is the modiste's object in such dresses,
and the fayorite dos gns have the plait-
ell or shirred basqucs with revers and a
soft sash, while the drapery is many long
brcadlhs forming the second skirts now
so much in favor. A charming design
for 4 young lady's dress has the second
skirt of six breadths Of the black surah
dropping down from the belt, and
caught up III q square corner on the left
side to show two o w of scallops, one
of black, the other of olive surah, on the
foot of the lower skirt; the right side has
a funneI-shaped plait, and on the straight
full gathered breadths in the back hang
two sash ends of pale olive silk can
vas fringcd at the foot, and their upper
short basque gathered on the should
ers has a gathered plastron of white
silk wrought with rose-buds from
the neck to a wide soft girdle
of green like the sash which crosses
it at the waist line; beside this white
plastron are green revers, which ex-
tend as a collar in the back, while in
front is a gathered band of the white
silk about the throat. A ga hered cuff
Of green surah strapped with the white
silk trims the back. coat-slecves. Other
full basques of black surah are in box
plaits as the waist line under a belt,
but the fullness is gathered at the neck
and in the shoulder seams. The effect
OF Il Norfolk Jacket is given by rows of
garnet ealloon or of Jet passementerie
extending down between the fullness,
which does not. however, assume de-
fined plaits. The galloon is then used
for ~dog-collmr, as wristbands, and
through the middle of the belt, which
is a fastened by a rosette.-Hasper's
Bdgar.