Middletown transcript., 1886-02-19
Wananlaher's.

/ Wanamaher's.
i Lively boucle, boucle of CON
trasting colors, particolor
/ boucle, abounds: crops up
everywhere, on almost every
sort of fabric.
Bobbins of wool, punches of
WOOL splashes of raw silk more
chaotic than punches, of wool,
1ecks and fakes and splashes
and broadsides of raw silk,
abound; in mixtures, stripes,
stripes on mixtures, checks,
plaids, invisible checks, invisible.
plaids.
Textures are apt to borough !!
but many are far from rough3
Roughness of color and texturei
go together. One answers in
place of the other. The rough
est effects perhaps may be
smooth in texture. Contrasts
abound. and yet not violent
roughness, the very disorder of
mixtures, tames them. Then
there are gentle shadings and
undulations of color. ;gi3,s 5id
Figures are mostly obscured
by these irregular mixtures of
color and texture. There are
checks impossible to trace, and
while you are. looking for them
you find they are plaids. There
are plaids that: seem to be moth
ing but mixtures. You, can i'm
agine them anything. Stripes
are apt to be bold not solid
but clusters of heavy disorderly
lines. And yet there are blocks
of quiet plush with their colors
and lines of division perfectly
marked.
Woods, grays and creamsare
frequent colors.
So far the most notable sum-
mer silk-warp black dress-stuffs
for 'S6 are Clairette, Gypsy and
Convent-cloth; made by Priest
ley of course. Fl
Clairette came first a year
ago and won immediate favor
There was nothing like it !;
nothing 50 fine and. light and
clear and easy and rolling. 1t,
dn'trumple when sat on; or,
if it did when severely. tried.
a7night restored its easy-rolling
drapery. Dainty Clairette !!
And yet it is nothing but nuns
yelling made soft and springy
with silk. This year. it is
woven a little closer, a little
more elastic, alittlemoresedate
withal.
| Clairette again combines with
Grape with pleasing effect. 1t
is dyed with a view to its use
with Grape. l](I
Clairette is an excellent trav-
eling-dress-stuf; veil stuff, bon
net-stuf bears hard usage as
well as anything; dust falls off
with shaking. On occasion
Clairette is better than Grape.
1t will help, not hinder, the wear
ing of Grape. They go to-
gether.
Cla1rette comes also with bOr
der for wells, a most desirable
substitute for Grape, when the
weather is threatening. Rain
is destruction to Grape. It
doesn't hurt Clairette.
Gypsy-cloth is new this
spring. A really fine but ap-
parently coarser stuff; for the
silk Of the warp is grouped in
threes, and the wool of the
woof is grouped in threes the
weave is a broken basket
| weave; a double texture, the
| basket-weave and the broken
weave. No CLEAN of silk, dull,
heavy in color; apparently plain
with allits complexity. Look a
little closer The splmts Of the
basket-woof have their finer
texture. ..e.iria eeas-
FGypsy creases as little and
drapes as roundly perhaps as
any Of the Priestley silk-and-
woods.
Convent-cloth is also new, as
new as if there were never any,
thing{like it. And yet it is the
very same except in color and
sheen, unless our eyes deceive
us, the very same as that ex-
quisite crapy silk-and-wool that
we coined the name for, Dia-
mond Dust, two or three years
ago.
Let's look at Diamond Dust