The Penn's Grove record., 1886-02-20
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We mention the problem on
ly to say that what we say O
fashion is drawn from the stuff
we have put your money into
We have endorsed your pa
per. We are held for the trutl
of our fashion-news by the
stufs themselves.
These bits offashion in dress.
stufs are clear already:
Wool and combinations OF
wool are still in greater favor
than silk with women who shift
with every little breath of fash
ion; though nothing can dis
place the highest order of silk
decorations.
Lively boucl6, bouclG of con-
trasting colors, particolor
bouclG, 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,
Aecks and fakes and splashes
and broadsides of raw silk,
abound; in mixtures, stripes,
stripes on mixtures, checks,
plaids, invisible checks, invisi-
bic plaids.
TeXturesare apt to be rough;
but many are far from rough.
Roughness of color and text
ure go together. One an
swers in place of the other.
The toughest 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
standings and fluctuations Of
color
Figures a'N mostly obscured
by these irregular mlXtul~ - Of
color and texture. There are /
checks impossible to trace; and,
while you are looking for them
you find theyare plaids. There
are plaids that seem to be
nothing but mixtures. You can
imagine them anything, Stripes
are apt to be bold; not solid
but clusters of heavy, disor-
derby lines. And yet there are
blocks of quiet plush with their
colors and lines of division per
fectly marked.
Woods, grays and creams
are frequ ent colors.
So far the mostnotable sum
mer silk-wrap black dress
stuffs for SO are Clairette,
Gypsyand Convent-cloth;m made
BY Priestley of course.
Clairette came first a year
ago and won immediate favor.
There was nothing like it
nothing SO fine andlight and
clear and easy and rolling. 1t
didn't rumple when sat on; or,
lift did when severely tried, a
night restored its easy-rolling
drapery. Dainty Charlotte!
And yet it is nothing but nuns
yelling make soft and springy
with silk. This year it is WOW
en- a little closer, a little more
elastic, a little more sedate
withal.
Clairette again combines
with Grape with pleasing effect.
1t is dyed with a view to its
use with Grape.
Clairette is an excellent
travcling-dress-stuff veil-stutf,
bonnet-stuff; bears hard usage
as we'll as anything; dust falls
off with shaking. On occasion
Clairette is better than Grape.
It will help, not hinder, the
wearing Of Grape. They go
together.
Clairette comes also with
border for wells, a most desira-
bic substitute for Grape, when
the weather is threatening.
Rain is destruction to Grape.
1t doesn't hurt Clairette.
Gypsy-cloth is new this
spring. A really fine but APP
parently coarser stuff; for the
silk of the wrap IS grouped in
threes, and the wool of the
wool is grouped in threes; the
weave is a broken basket
weave; a double texture, the
basketwcave and the broken
weave. No CLEAN of silk, dull
heavy in cover; apparently
plain with all its completely.
Look a little closer! The
splints of the basket-woof have
their finer texture.