Huntsville gazette., 1888-08-11
FAMILY FASHIONS.
Latest Styles in Petticoats, Night-GowDs,
Chenlises and CorsetCovers.

Latest Styles in Petticoats, Night-GowDs,
Cheniises and Corset-Covers.
Most petticoat5 are now made with
band rather than yoke, and the full
ruffies which extended up the back to
give the effect of hustle, are not often
used. Castings, in which steels are
run, to be removed when laundried,
replace these ruf1les. The finest skirts
are finished with wide, Spanish flounces,
which are tucked with fine tucks and
trimmed with insertions and edgings
Of Maltese, Torchon or Medici lace,
and edgings of embroidery. The i'm
ported skirts from France show con-
siderable woven Valenciennes, fashion
who make their own skirts, to follow,
as good quality of woven Valenclen-
nes can not now be found in the Amerl-
cal market. The Valenciennes trim
tnings on this imported French under
wear are made in France, where ex-
celent woven Valenciennes can always
be purchased. This is durable
lace. which rivals the cushion
made lace so closely that experts
sometimes require Il microscope
to detect the difference. A
dozen years ago abundance of good
woven Valenciennes was to be found IN
our markets, but shopkeepers, in their
anxiety to procure an article to meet
the demand for cheap inery, readily
imported the showy Platte Nalen-
ciennes and Normandy Valenciennes,
laces which will not bear the process
of laundrying and possess no virtue
but cheapness-
The excellent loom bands, which
come only in strips embroidered on
both sides in variety Of set patterns
and with strong scollOps and in drawn
work, are quite dainty, and useful in
| trimming skirts. Some of the French
| skirts are tucked in crosS-bar pattern,
with tucks running the lengthwise and
the crosswise of the founco. The
founce on the skirt may range from
| twenty to nine inches in width. Under
this fiounce are invariably set, in hand
some skirts, two or three rutlles about
| three or four inches in width, which
serve to give dainty bouffant effect
to the edge The bottom Of hand
some skirt should always be protected
by narrow ruftle directly on the edge,
which may be removed when it trays.
Night-gowns are usually made
plated at the back with yoke front,
square9pompadour front, shirt-bosom
front or in the new classic Recamier
fashion introduced this season in
French underwear. Gowns with yoke
fronts are quite short in the yoke,
which may be composed Of needle
work. fine tucks and lace, all used in
combination or of one Of these ma
terials The neck of the new gowns
! is rather higher and closer at the
throat. In some cases a fall Of plated
/ lace finishes the neck, and similar falls
| of lace finish the sleeves. The Re-
canier gown has a fullness shirred in
at the shoulder seam, extending to
about the waist line where it is again
held in shirrings.
White domestic muslins and percales
are the standard materials for under
wear. Ladies making tr0usseaus DUR
ing the summer for autumn weddings
are advised that chemiseS of the
heavier quality Of French nainsook,
linen cambria or old-fashioned dimity,
simply and daintily trimmed with
linen cambria ruffles edged with
lace, made entirely by the needle,
are frequently part OF these outfits.
Women of refinement are beginning to
appreciate the beauty and utility OF
fine needle-made garments. French
chemises are made in square, round or
pointed shapes, the latter being the
newer fashion. A little fullness is
sometimes shirred on the shoulder OF
the chemise, draping the narrow band.
Wide yokes are out of fashion. The
chemise may be made in sack style OF
gathered on to narrow band.
Drawers are simply trimmed with
tucks, lace or embroidery. French
garments show a tendency to extend
the trimming up the inside seam or il
a curve over the knee. In length the
drawers should reach to the knee.
Corset covers are cut either pointed
back and front. square back and front
low and round in the neck or high il
the neck Some of the new pointed
corset-covers are draped in classic
style with a fullness, shirred in at tn,
shoulder and forming point low a
the bust, Good House6eepiny.