The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-09
SPRING NOVELTIES.

One novel suit is of dark blue drap-
cry. with an overskirt of woven braid.
The pattern is Il long, square plaid, COM
bining the colOrs red, blue, and brown,
alternating with braid of woven wires
of silver. This underskirt is made up
on dark silk foundation, with the pat
tern running diagonally and finished
plainly to the foot.
A pretty tan-colorcd canvas dress is
made of plain and boucle canvas, the
knotted threads upon the surface of the
latter being of bright red wool. The
skirt is made with full length side panels
of boucle canvas. under which the plain
goods is gathered in wide pleats, each
pleat stitched down with double row
of stitching till within six inches of the
bottom. The back drapery is long and
full, and of the plain material
A novelty in stripes is red wool
dress, striped with narrow lines of white,
brown. and blue. The dress is made
entirely of this one material, with full
drapery over plain round skirt and
short, pointed basque.
A plaid dress combines a light and
dark shade of brown. The fabric is q
light brown wool etamine. with wide
plaid formed of knotted wool threads
upon the surface. In each plaid is an
Oriental figure in the dark threads. The
drapery is straight in the back, hanging
IN full pleats to the bottom, and round
and short in the front, and is edged
with four rows of light and dark tan
colOred velvet, pinked in narrow stripes
and mounted upon dark brown gros
grain ribbon.
A rich-looking gold-brown canvas
drapery is arranged in full, soft folds
over tan and pink figured silk skirt.
The silk is put on perfectly plain, with
narrow pleating just visible at the
bottom as finish to the foot. Where
the panel falls over the silk in front it is
ravelled out and tied in knotted fringe,
and the entire selvage of the drapery,
which is worn loosely, is not turned un-
der in hem, as has been the custom
heretofore, but is left as a sufficient fin
ish to itself. Long loops of brown otto
man ribbon fasten the canvas panels to-
gether at the belt and fall down over
the silk skirt nearly to the bottom.
Another novelty is the shawl dress, ut
present very popular in France. 1t is
made of white and blue checked wool,
in imitation of the old time shawl which
graced the shoulders of our grandmoth-
ers. The skirt is made of dark blue
mohair, while above it the shawl is
draped from left to right around the en-
tire skirt. 1t opens over the underskrt
as over panel on the left hip, and falls
down to point in front. From there
it is gathered up in pleats on the right
hip, and then falls in straight folds
around to the left hip. At the pleating
on the right is placed knot of long
loops and ends of dark blue satin rib
bon and the basque is also finished with
cuffs and collar of the ribbon.
For strictly summer wear the plain
and figured or plain and embroidered
pongees will be much worn. One pretty
French dress, imported few days ago,
is of very fine quality of pongee, COM
bined with pongee woven with scarlet
silk threads knotted upon the surface.
The skirt is draped and panelled with
the boucle, and the drapery in front is
edged with scarlet velvet ribbon. The
basque is fitted with full vest of white
Fedora lace with cross straps of scarlet
velvet, and in the cuffs are panels of the