Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-03-01
MOURNING DRESSES.

Mourning dresses for parent child,
brother or sister are made in the
fashions prevailing for colorcd wooden
dresses, and trimmed with Grape or
braid or dull bead passementerie. A
good plan is to get the first dresses
with plain waists. and buy piastron
of folds of Grape or ribbon for their
trimming. There are excellent Hem
rietta cloth skirts in the shops made
quite plain, with a hem six inches
deep and a tuck of the same width
above it. The drapery has a similar
hem. and forms deep pointed apron
with two wing-like points behind.
The basque may then have narrow
tucks down each side of the front. or
be merely tucked at the top and at
the waist line. or it may cross over to
the left side of the waist and be full
on the right shoulder. Small bows of
narrow gros grain ribbon with looped
edges trim the front Inexpensive
dresses of fine black flannels are made
with Norfolk belted waists, or else
with ba.que that has revers
and plastron covered with many r,ws of
narrow braid. The homespun and
Cheviot dresses made by tailors are
used for the mourning put on for more
distant relations. Mohair Sicilienne.
which is heavier and brighter than
alpaca, is an excellent fabric for house
dresses, and will be worn in the spring
for morning and travelling dresses.
Graceful gowns for the house are of
India camel hair, made with Wat
teau fold in the back and dcmi-train.
with tho front and sides of the skirt
opening over full breadths of striped
faille in inch stripes of plain blacA al
terEating with checked black and white
stripes. Similar gowns made CT black
chuddah cloth have the hem down the
fronts and at the foot pretti!y feather
stitched. and opening over full front
of surah, or India silk. or China Grape,
which is shocked at the neck and
waist line. When children are put in
mourning their dresses are simply
made serges and homespuns. without
the fragile Grape trimmings that are SO
soon defaced. and are always insult
able for child.
Schoolgirls in their teens have sell
.lom more than the first dress trimmed
with Grape. and afterward wear fan.
mel, serge or camers-hair trimmed
with straight rows of braid. or galloon.
or the cord passementerics. Dali Jet
beads in single row as an edging for
the revers. cuffs and collar make
neat finish for black wool dresses, and
there are passementeries of fine small
beads to be arranged as plastron,
revers. epaulettes, collar and cuffs on
more dressy gowns. Gray serge and
dark gray-faced cloths trimmed with
dull black silk and black fur are used
for second mourning for both young
and old ladies'. For the dressy light
mourning put on as complimentary
mourning French cashmercs are made
up over skirts of watered silk or of
plain lustrcless faille. with trimmings
OF back cord passemcntcrie or gimps
in which there are no beads. Deeply
crinkled crepe de Chine is now used
for dressy gowns, trimmed with Skin.
front and plastron of black lisse en-
broidered in dull silks. Tulle, Brus-
sells net, and point d'esprit dresses
are worn by young ladies in prefer
ence to the heavy armures and
other silks. and are trimmed with
gauze ribbons or those of faille with
picot edges. For the next seasons
dresses India silks will be chosen in
the plain black which may now be had
without luster, and with the white
figures which are to be worn very
large in kaleidoscope designs. or in
great shaded leaves. running vines, or
broad white bars, three in a cluster,
dotted with black. or chains in stripes,
or broken bits of interllnked chains. or
else larger rings with smaller rings in
side them. The black satteens initiate
the large designs of India silks, and are
SO well finished that they are mistaken
for silk. Victoria cloths are the new
corded ginghams with raised white
stripes or bars on black or gray
grounds; and the genuine Scotch ging
hams come in large plaids or wide
stripes of white with black, or gray
with black or with white in a variety
of arrangements, among which are the
white ginghams introduced last sum-
mer with black bars. stripes. or broken
plaids. The grenadines for summer
have armure grounds with large close
~ woven silk designs of mammoth
pansies. peonies of natural size. long
palm leaves, and pretty patterns of
true-lOve knots. bows, and ribbon de-
signs in stripes and bars with feathery
edges.-Harpers Ba.ar.
WRESTLING GIRLS.