The morning news., 1888-06-02
rHEpEAR, SWEET THINGS
,ruuEsT CONCEIrS IN COM
~ MYNCEMENT DRESSES.

ra for sweet Garl GrbOudVoS-
White Drapery With Sprays
sweet Peas-How the Modistes
40 irving to Paint the Lily.
I'm the ST. Louis Globe Democrat.
.,-,r Work. May 24.-Slender, half
Ne" " agure of bud of 16; cream white
,..nerv net embroidered with sprays OF
r.ot meas: one is the girl, the other is her
sa,s+inc gown. The girl is writing the
p.5ict,ry essay, which begins: "Class-
~ before the tie which has bound us
20 many happy years is broken;" the
s,,o IS in the hands of one OF the best OF
citv dressmakers. The valedlctory is
s;ons affair-but so is the gown.
rLa GOWN has a foundation of soft cream
~. This makes plain skirt and a plain
,odce, laced in front and not too high in
NJ throat nor too long in the sleeves. The
,-onorv net makes first. straight. full
ltrt With a finch row of fine knife
sH1d;t;ro about the bottom 1t makes,
Nd an overdress almost as long as the
CO. falling in natural folds in front, just
snH-Ltly, caught on the sides and undraped
I'D also with fine knife e-plaiting about
Isn bottom. 1t makes, third, a dainty
.pe lpar. bodice, laid in surplice folds close
So,t the throat, and with puffed sleeves
aa.bbon-tied about the wrist. A broad sash
al cream ribbon about the waist, with big
Us and long ends behind, and the gown
.nrb all its bravery is complete. The sweet
We. in their pale blue and pink tints are
gono in hoselie. and lunches of the natural
so-rors will bear them out in the hair and
OF the waist
NJ . an imported gown this time, just
through the custom house for the closing
.IarcIses of q select private school. White
,,a;ling is the material the softest, sheerest
ond f1est vet woven. 1t has an odd-looking
Annce about the bottom, founce that
looks as if 1t were made, as it is, of double
fold of the material in part, the lower edge
eating pretty rolled appearance by being
furned up and tackled against the inner edge
If the foundation skirt. The draperies are
,,erv vouthful in their simplicity, the bodice
has A slender pointed vest of loose folds of
the yelling, the sleeves are puffed, and the
,ostume gets butterfly look from the fly
syay bows airily perched on the shoulders.
II is French in its lnslStance on the simple
davices which are so much more effective
than elaborate adornment for young girls.
Now for No. 3, seen few days since in
the work room of a large dry goods house
in process of making for one of Miss Rose
Elizabeth Cleveland's graduates from Mrs.
Sylvanus Reeds school. White clairette
cloth one of the prettiest of the silk warp
fabrics, is the basis of a very pretty gown.
Tie front of the skirt is laid in clustered
plaits. Between the plaits white ribbon is
iooped from waist to hem, ribbon bow
finishing each row of loops at the bottom.
The back of the skirt has full drapings of
the cairette cloth, and the bodice has a
vest of ribbon loops.
The mate to this gown was another of
white cashmere and white striped moire.
The simple, almost undraped skirt of cash
mere had panel of striped silk on the side
front, not inserted as a straight breadth,
hut laid in slightly diagonal fashion from
the belt to the bottom of the gown. The
neck was cut in a " a small letter, not a
capital showing the smallest fraction of
throat imaginable, and about the throat
and the arms and the hem of the gown ran
thick wreath of crushed roses, cream
white and like enough to nature to be ten
minutes out Of the garden.
A pretty girl who is going to Vassar in
the fall graduates next week in a gown to
which, in spite of her college aspirations,
she has not disdained to give considerable
attention. 1t is white silk gown, a soft,
easily draping silk, with silk cord girdle at
the waist and intricate embroideries of gold
threat about the bottom. Ornaments of
white silk cord, twisted with gold tinsel
threads lap across the front Of the bodice,
and, with the embroidery, constitute the
only garniture.
All the girls of large convent class
graduating near New York shortly will
to have been made expressly for young
girls, trimmed only with row or two Of
narrow moire ribbon about the draperies
and the bottom of the skirts. These girls
will wear no jewelry and few flowers, the
rules of the sisterhood prescribing the
utmost simplicity possible to be attained
and so avoiding any contrast in the attire
OF richer and poorer on graduation day
modiste VINO makes the gowns of some
OF the most richly dressed city DANES ex-
hlDlts three graduation gowns which she
has now in hand one of these has a skirt
made OF alternate rows of lace flouncings
and satin ribbon gathered full like the lace
over this is draped white handwoven China
SILK, embroidered with silver threads and
edged with lace. The second gown is of
sheer India muslin with delicate hand en-
broideries in white silk, dainty lace bertha
and immense sash of white ribbon to tie
oenlnd The third gown is of white mosaic
MORE, Its draperIeS caught together with
long looped bows of ribbon.
White is still the rule, but there are
exceptions, this modiste said, when asked
ABOUT the newest things in graduating
gowns. white, and blue white, oftener
tnan the cream whites which have been the
IaVorltes for year or two past. Any
thing IN white, from the simplest null or
Yelling to the most elaborate real lace.
"hite surah, with little lace trimming,
n ~ the choice of many who know what
they are about, or surah with white silk
ornamental stitching. or gold or silver
VI white silk braid. White drapery net
elIner plain or embroidered with floss in
GSS0,,ors, is as dressy as anything to be found.
whatever the material, ribbons are in
order. Ribbons everywhere. There is
noohlng so pretty for girls as ribbons. Rib
oons on the shoulders, ribbons about the
vast, ribbons fastening the draperies, rib
gons wherever you can find spot to fasten
mem Where something other than white
wanted the figured Oriental silks are first
Cnolce; pretty chali the second. For
groves tan kids, dressed or undressed, are in
oruer' or white lace gloves, with half long
Ihese are graduating dresses The COM
IMaehcement M gown is different. Half-blown
eilects Tor sweet 10, but the college gradu-
ae 80 oL x to 70 has not yet evolved gown
nIicn entirely suits her. She wants some
nl,g little more serious and scholastic
o o.iu IN the absence Of the college robes and
zap of Glrton of Newnham, " hich have not
appeared often in this country except at the
d de" womans college at BIyn Mawr she i:
ueVeioplng something of weakness for
mo mio iiernlzed Greek gowns Greek draperies
Win pebum Qirdle and Attic embroider.y