Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-04-12
IMPORTED COSTUMES.
Stylish Gowns and Short Coats Designed In
Paris and London.

| Paris and London.
While there are many novelties of
color and many new combinations of
shade and hue seen in the French
dresses imported for street wear. they
are noteworthy as concession to the
simple styles demanded by New York
women of fashion. There are still
many gay little gowns. as there are
pronounced styles in hats and bonnets
imported to meet the Southern and
Western trade, which demands more
color; but these styles are this season
less bizarre than in former days. The
cloth dresses which have formed feat.
ure of each seasons importation for
several years are superseded by cash
mere. Henrietta cloth and light silken
cloths of soft wool. Gowns of Henri
eta cloth are shown in all the prevail
ing cloth colors made up in combina-
ton with the faille Francois. bengaline
and MORE silks. There are many
gowns of soft wool in Quaker drab.
silvery French gray, navy-blue and
other dark shades, which are finished
with trimmings of white wool. This
is let in as pyramids of fine plaitings
in the skirt, forms the vest, and is
used as a piping cord on the basque
and drapery; in some cases it forms
the entire underskirt-
A stylish gown of navy-blue cash
mere was made with an irregularly
draped skirt The edge of the under
skirt and the drapery was stitched with
red sewing silk in clusters of five rows.
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above a two-inch hem. The under
skirt of the dress was slashed on either
side and displayed fans of cream-white
wool with red selvedge at the bottom.
| The stylish little house bodice of this
gown was finished with a white vest
fastened at the side under one of the
revers of red selvedge. The collar
was also formed of this gay selvedge
and square buttons of brass set on the
revers, in groups of three, completed
the bodice. Some exquisite little gowns
in mixtures of indistinct figures and in
several shades of wood-brown are made
with full cream-white vests, which are
held in wide cluster of honeycombed
shirrlngs few inches below the collar
and at the waist. In some cases the
entire underskirt is of cream-white
wool, but it is almost covered by the
drapery showing only at the side,
where it is often held from the waist
line to within fifteen or twenty inches
of the bottom in full close rows of
shirrings, whence it falls in wide ruff
fle. Braidings of gold are often seen
on cream-white wool when it is used
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or shades allied to browns. or with the
dull blue Gobelin shades and navy
blue. Braiding of silver steel are seen
on dead white woolens combined with
cloth in French gray. grayish blue and
the new green shades with gray tones.
The short London coats which are
imported in colors which harmonic
with all shades of cloth will probably
be the general choice this summer for
ordinary wear; only few gowns with
Jackets of the same material are inn
ported. Many long wraps arc shown
as well as short coats There are
the necessity of a sleeve; raglans with
sleeves and capes coming from the
sleeve and showing only in front; and
long plain coats, which reach to within
Il few inches of the bottom of the
dress. These wraps are usually loose
in front and close fitting at the back
and are made of smooth-faced cloths
ornamental with wide passementeries
of crochet work or bands of twisted
cords or flat Hercules braids, bordered
with picot-edged Russia braid. The
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full over the tournure and this fullness
is held in various ways-sometimes in
shirrings. sometimes in a large num-
Der of standing plaits. Some long
wraps are open at the back. Some
times large pocket-faps are placed on
the coat at the back, below the side
forms. There are many gay little
wraps for church-going and other
formal occasions that merely drape the
shoulders, displaying the rich toilette
worn beneath them. These wraps may
be in Tosca shape-short in front with
long pointed ends in some cases reach
ing nearly to the bottom of the dress
skIrt-or in capes that are fastened
down in point back and front at the
waist; or in capes that merely cover
the shoulders and are straight on the
! edge.-N. J.. Tribune.
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