Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1888-03-16
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FASHIONABLE FABRICS.
Woolens, Challis and Bengalines for Deml
Season Costumes.


Season Costumes.
Chaudron or copper shades prevail
in the new checked or striped woolens,
which are now made up of two tones of
color instead of having alternate white
checks or stripes The effect is very
neat, and this smooth light wool will
be used for the entire dress instead of
being combined with silk or with n
plain wool; for this reason these goods
are called "suitings," and will prob
ably rival the Cheviots employed last
spring for tailor gowns. The small
pin-head checks and pencilcd stripes
are represented for those who prefer
small figures. while those of bolder
size and width are also imported. Zig
gag stripes, and clusters of light lines
forming wide stripes that alternate
with plain twilled stripes, are seen in
these copper-colored goods, and the
same weaving is repeated in Gobelin
blues, china blues. in Suede colors,
golden brown and bronze; among the
prettiest are plain stripes nearly an
inch wide alternating with diagonal
stripes showing white with the color of
the plain stripe.
The popular challis of last year are
again offered for summer dresses, but
with much larger figures than the
sprigs and spots formerly worn. This
fabric is of lighter weight than CASH
mere, yet not so thin as nuns yelling,
and may be of the finest wool, or of
the harsher qualities mixed with cotton;
the latter are sold at one-third the price
of the pure wool challis, and are among
the few cheap materials that experience
ed purchasers think it safe to buy.
Their coloring is usually so delicate
that darker plain material is required
for their trimming. such rs n collar,
revers, or plastron, and cuffs of velvet,
water silk or plain Bengaline.
The printed Bengalincs introduced
last year promise to be the fashionable
material for next summers dresses for
afternoon, for garden fetes and for
watering-place wear generally. These
are light repped fairies showing an
entire surface of silk, but with substan-
coloring is pretty, with light cream,
Suede, pale blue, or celadon green
grounds strewn with gay chintz
figures and flowers, while for darker
dresses are copper grounds strewn
with great branches of creamy white
elder blossoms, or poppy red with
white leaves, golden brown with ecru,
or the indigo blue or more grayish blue
with Suede figures. The lovcliest Wat
teau coloring is seen with clusters of
natural flowers or of fruits on lemon
yellow or creamy white grounds.
Pompadour patterns of pale rose and
blue have stripes of n solid color. with
white stripes strewn with small flowers
or garlands, and the Dresden china
Bengalines have disks within disks
holding bright wreaths of flowers on
pale gray or rose grounds, on serpent
blue or green, and on light golden
brown surfaces. Boughs of the Jap
anesc ounce are favorite designs, with
their wide-spreading branches of pink
blossoms without foliage, in their nat
ural tints, and III other coloring not
known to nature, MS yellow ounce
blossoms with pinkish stems, or blue
blossoms on brown boughs. Other jar
| diniere patterns are small nosegays
held by blue or rose ribbons tied in
great bow-knots, or white medallions
holding pretty sprays of carnations or
chrysanthemums. while vines of small
| huds and leaves arn SCI in rows tn form,