Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-08-11
The New Styles.

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which has been accomplished so gradually that it
was hardly noticed leaves the way cleared for the
introduction of directoire styles The latest French
plates show smoothly fitting basques extending
lower in front than at the back and shaped in these
sharply accumulated points The new drapery is
long. All bouffant styles are passe The effort
of the fashionable woman of to-day is to possess
the willowy, slender figure which lends itself natu
rally and gracefully to classic pose and drapery.
The puffed and paniered style of Vatican shep-
herdess, with whom About said that man would be
content forever eating ice cream, have given place
to the statuesque fashions of the days of Josephine
and Madame Recamer. The drectoire styles are
no doubt better suited for evening dress. Their
presence will only modify without controlling the
street dress, but it means the continuance OF the
banded collar the close sleeve with its high seam
on the shoulder and all the styles which insure
snug, smooth fit of the corsage unbroken by any
lines, except the wide incroyable revers, which are
often turned back and caught together again to
the throat, or if parted, show the narrowest posi-
BILE line of the dainty, pleated vest of null.
Skirts are plain and straight around, trimmed
with wide, flat bands of trimming, which in some
cases are woven borders, half yard wide, OF
medley of coors in Persian effect. The introduce
ton and probable adoption of these Persian colors
is anticipated during the fall. There are also
many materials for dresses imported with orna-
mental selvages, known as border wooens and
although these are no longer novelty, the designs
are excellent and dresses of these materials are
shown in many of the French plates.- Good
Housekeeping
Velvet is to be the fabric for the coming sea-
son. and the coat, with embroidered waist coat in
redingote OF directore form, the fashion for din
ner dresses and afternoon receptions Embroidery
upon velvet is done by hand, but is usually APP
piled, not often executed directly upon the gar
ment, except upon such as are designed as well as
made to order. There is tendency toward the
shortening of the waist, because the Empire modes
are in the ascendancy, at least, strongly contest
the place Of honor with the Directore designs. But
bodices are usually cut somewhat shorter in Paris
than in England or America, French women be-
inc usually short and rather stout, with shorter
waists and necks than American and English
women.
The lace boa which has been worn in England
for two or three seasons and been replaced this
year by the wide and long lace scarfs in cream
and black, have just found their way to Paris, and
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all the large shops. 1t is singular that they have
not found their way to America; but they would
never have been success for a boa in summer,
even of lace, would hardly be bearabe with the
thermometer at go
Cotton dresses are an English specially. No
where do they make them at once so simply and
so charmingly In Paris they are either negliges,
fused up with lace and ribbons, or too formal.
This season, for the first time, the Partisan dress
makers have endesvored to follow English models,
and produce French version Of the full bodice,
the belted waist and full sleeve. The last has
been difficult pill to swallow and they would not
have come to it if worth had not set the example.
AS it is they lay the sleeves in fine folds or plas,
leaving it full only over the elbow, and they shape
yoke by fine folds also. The bodice is not
straight, but deepens at the back to point, and
the skirt is laid in full fine, side plating and