The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-04-10
FOR ELDERLY LADIES.
Dark Materials of Various Hues Made
Up In Becoming style.


Up In Becoming style.
The dresses worn by elderly ladies
have round basques and long draperies
less bouflant than those of young women,
and are made of soft cashmere and
eamels hair in preference to the stiff
serges and rough-finished cloths that
English fashions have popularized. The
prevalent taste for color has, however,
found favor with mature women, who,
instead of wearing black or gray on all
occasions, as was the custom few
years ago, have adopted all the fashion
able dark cOlors, such as seal brown,
golden brown, moss green, plum-color
sapphire blue for their out-of-door
tollettes, while for house and morning
dresses they wear helionope or pansy
shades, and even the pale blue and
cardinal colors are found to be becom-
ing to those with handsome "slver-
blonde" hair. Combination dresses of
velvet and Bengaline in seal brown or
pansy shades are chosen for elaborate
toilettes for old ladies, and there are
trained dresses entirely of black velvet,
gros grain or satin, with jet ornaments,
some black Chantilly lace and frills or
collarette of white real lace, which COM
mend themselves because they are al
ways appropriate, no matter what else
may be in fashion. Such dresses can
serve double purpose by being made
with short skirt of walking length with
separate train of straight breadths
that is hooked on at the belt under the
basque, and by other hooks down each
side, covering entirely the back breadths
of the short skirt beneath it. Such a
dress should have wide plaits or a panel
down the left side, with deep apron
pleated TO the foot on the left side,
crossing the front, and caught up on
the right to show the short skirt be-
meath; the back should be straight
gathered breadths falling plain from
the belt to the foot as more bOuffant
drapery would not permit the use of a
train above it, Paneled fronts of three
or five wide box pleats are also hand
some for such dresses, and may be sep
arated by bands of passementerie or
clusters of fine pleats. Cashmere dresses
combined with watered silk are made
up with demi-polonaises for old ladies.
The fronts of the cashmere polonaise
form flat panels sloping away on each
side, while the skirt front is of pleated
watered silk, and the back is partly
cashmere and partly silk instead of be-
ing pleated. A V of silk extends down
the front and back of the waist. For
plain house dresses basque and full
skirt of any soft wooden is made with
out trimming. India silks with small
white figures on dark grounds are made
with pleated skirt and polonaise, and
a gros grain ribbon edge is the trim.
ming on the polonaise.
Soft crowns of null with double
frills or a jabot of lace are the caps
worn by elderly ladies, while those who
are much older wear tulle fanchons
made of small rushes and puffs, or else
there is large tulle crown with two
ruches as a border around it. Bows O.
colored ribbon are on all caps excep
those worn by ladies in mourning
when either black or white must b.
used. Pale blue, rose pink, violet anC
cardinal ribbons are on the dainty
breakfast caps of white muslin and LACE
worn by women of threescore and tel
above the the beautiful hair which il
their crown of glory.--Harper'S Bazar.