St. Landry democrat., 1886-06-05
STREET DRESSES.

STREET DRESSES.
Bright Costumes the Richness of Whose
Colors Dazzles the Eyes.
One novel suit is of dark blue ORA
perry, with an underskirt of woven braid.
The patterns is long, square plaid,
combining the colors red, blue and
brown, alternating with a braid OF
woven wires of silver. This underskirt
is made upon dark silk foundation,
with the pattern running diagonally
and finished plainly to the foot.
A pretty tan-colored canvas dress is
made of plain and bucle 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 dra-
perry is long and full, and of the plain
material.
A novelty in stripes is a 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 mar
row 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 plating just visible at the
bottom as finish to the foot. Where
the panel falls over the silk in front it is
raveled out and tied in knotted fringe,
and the entire selvage of the drapery,
which is worn loosely, is not turned I'M
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, at
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 grand
mothers. The skirt is made of dark
blue mohair, while above it the shawl
is draped from left to right around the
entire skirt. 1t opens over the under
skirt as over a panel on the left hip,
and falls down to point in the front.
From there it is gathered up in plaits
on the right hip, and then falls in
straight folds around to the left hip. At
the plating on the right is placed knot
lof long loops and ends of dark blue
satin ribbon, and the basque is also fin
Wished with cuffs and collar of the rib
bon.
For strictly summer wear the plain
and figured or plain and embroidered
pongees will be much worn. One pretty
French dress, imported a few days ago,
lie of very fine quality of pongee, COM
lhined with pongee woven with scarlet
silk threads knotted upon the surface.
The skirt is draped and paneled 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
velvet.-M r Herald.