The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-29
SURAH DRESSES.
The Most Popular Material for Stylish Sum-
 mer Costumes.

The Most Popular Material for Stylish Sum mer Costumes.
 Silk surahs-not satin surahs-are largely imported for summer dresses either for the house or out-of-doors; 1T 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 blue and white plain surat is made up in surplice basque with blue canvas sleeves, a lower skirt oi seven straight gathered breadths of the plaid silk over which is deep drapery of the wide blue canvas made in one piece, with selvage at the foot, forming deep apron front, and draped in high plaits far back on the tournure, where it is attached to the point of the basque, and drops Tn two long pointed wings. Some gilt braid as shoulder straps is laid along the shoulder seams of such dresses, and blue satin ribbon two inches wide is worn around the waist like a military sash, falling low on the left side of the skirt, where it is con- pleted by gilt tassels. Blue and red plaid surahs are similarly made with blue canvas, also beige with green, and mastic with red. Small rough straw pokes peaked in front and back are 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 silk-musln, and revers and sash of artistic stuffs and new soft silks in pale olive shades, or beach, blow, pale yellow or copper red, or else with garnet bead passementerie for trimming. To introduce a little color is the modiste's object in such dresses, and the favorite designs have the plait- ed or shirred basques with revers and a soft sash, while the drapery is many long breadths forming the second skirts now so much in favor. A charming design for young lady's dress has the second skirt of six breadths of the black surah dropping down from the belt, and S'luSho uP III b Su uudIo COI uCl Oll Glc lclb side to show two rows 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 fringed at the foot, and their upper end concealed by the basque. The short basque gathered on the should CTS has 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 collar in the back, while in front is gathered band of the white silk about the throat. A gathered cuff of green surah strapped with the white silk trims the black coat-sleeveS. Other full basques of black surah are in box plaits as the waist line under belt, but the fullness is gathered at the neck and in the shoulder seams. The effect of Norfolk jacket is given by rows of garnet galloon or of jet passementerie extending down between the fullness, which does not. however, assume de- fined plaits. The galloon is then used for dog-collar, as wristbands, and through the middle of the belt, which is 8 fastened by rosette. -HarDer'' BazGr.