Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-02
GRADUATION DRESSES.
THE SEASONS STYLES FOR COM
MENCEMENT DAYS.
Pretty White Gowns for Pretty Girls
dreams in Muslin and Fan
cieS in Null.

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broidered with sprays of sweet peas; one is
the girl, the other is her graduating gown
The girl is writing the valedictory essay
which begins: Classmates, before the
tie which has bound us for so many happy
years is broken p the gown is in the hands
of the dressmaker The valedictory is a
serious affair, but so is the gown.
The gown has foundation of soft cream
silk. This makes plain skirt and plain
bodice, laced in front and not too high in
the throat nor too long in the sleeves. The
drapery net makes, first straight, full
skirt with four-ineh row of fine knife
plating about the bottom. 1t makes, sec
ond, an overdress almost as long as the
skirt, falling in natural folds in front, lust
slightly caught on the sides and undraped
behind; also with fine anticipating about
the bottom. 1t makes, third, dainty
over-bodice laid in surplice folds close
about the throat and with pulled sleeves
ribbon-tied about the wrist \ broad sash
of cream ribbon about the waist, with big
bows and long ends behind, and the gown
with all its bravery is complete. The sweet
peas in their pale blue and pink tints are
done in filoselle and punches of the natural
flowers will bear them out in the hair and
at the waist.
That is graduation dress number one ;
here is number two, an important gown
this time, for the closing exercises of a
the material, the softest, sheerest and finest
vet woven. 1t has an odd-looking hounce
about the bottom, q flounce that looks as if
it were made, as it is, of n double fold of
the material in part, the lower edge getting
4 pretty rolled appearance by being turned
up and tackled against the inner edge of
the foundation skirt. The draperies are
very youthful in their simplicity, the bod
ice has a slender, pointed vest of loose folds
of the vailing, the sleeves are pulled, and
the costume gets a butterfly look from the
fyaway bows airly perched on the Shout
ders. 1t is French in its insistance on the
simple devices which are so much more
effective than elaborate adornment for
young girls.
Now for number three, seen a few days
since in the work room of large dry goods
house in process of making. White clai-
rette cloth, one of the prettiest of the silk
warp fabrics, is the basis of very pretty
gown. The front of the skirt is laid in
clustered plaits. Between the plaits white
ribbon is Topped from waist to hem, rib
bon bow finishing each row of loops at the
bottom. The back Of the skirt has full
drapings of the clairette cloth and the bod
ice has vest of ribbon loops.
The mate to this gown was another of
white cashmere and white striped MORE.
The simple, almost undraped skirt of cash
mere had a panel of striped silk on the
side 'front.' not inserted as straight
breadth, but laid in slightly diagonal fash
ion from the belt to the bottom of the
gown. The neck was cut in V, small
letter, not capital, showing the smallest
fraction of throat imaginable, and about
the throat and the arms and the hem of
the gown ran a thick wreath of crushed
roses, cream white and like enough to ma
ture to be ten minutes out Of the garden.
A pretty girl who is going to Nasar in
the fall graduates in 4 gown to which in
spite of her college aspirations she has not
disdained to give considerable attention.
1t is white silk gown, soft, easily
draping silk, with silk cord girdle at the
waist and intricate embroideries of gold
thread 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 a large convent class
graduating shortly will wear gowns Of
white vailing, which seem to have been
made expressly for young girls, trimmed
only with row OF two of narrow MORE
ribbon about The draperies and the bottom
of the skirt. These girls will wear no
iewelry and few flowers, therules of the sister
hood prescribing the utmost simplicity pos
sible to be attained, and so avoiding any
contrasts in the attire of richer and poorer
on graduation day,
a modiste who makes the gowns of some
Of the most richly dressed city danes ex-
hibits three graduation gowns which she
has now in hand One of these has a skirt
made of alternate rows of lace tlouncings
and satin ribbon gathered full like the
lace. Over this is draped white hand
woven china silk, embroidered with silver
threads and edged with lace. The second
gown is Of sheer India muslin, with deli
cate hand embroideries in white silk,
dainty lace bertha and immense sash of
white ribbon to tie behind. The third
gown is of white mosaic MORE, its draper
les 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 graduation
gowns. White, and blue white, oftener
than the cream whites which have been
the favorites for a year or two past. Any
thing in white, from the simplest null or
vailing to the most elaborate real lace
White surah, with a little lace trimmings
is the choice of many who know what they
are about, or surah with white silk orna-
mental stitching, or gold or silver or white
silk braid. White drapery net, either
plain or embroidered with floss in colors is
as dressy as anything to be found, What
ever the material, ribbons are in order
Ribbons everywhere. There is nothing so
pretty for girls as ribbons. Ribbons on
the shoulders, ribbons about the waist rib
bons fastening the draperies, ribbons wher-
ever you can find spot to fasten them
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wanted the figured Oriental silks are first
choice; pretty challi, the second. For
gloves tanned kids, dressed or undressed
are in order, or white lace gloves with half
long wrists"
These are graduation dresses. The COM
mencement gown is different. Half-blown
effects for sweet sixteen, but the college
graduate of twenty-five or twenty-three has
has not yet evolved gown which entirely
suits her. She wants something a little
more serious and scholastic, and in the alb
sence Of the college robes and cap of Cir
ton or Newman, which have not appeared
often in this country, she is developing
something of a weakness for modernized
Greek gowns. Greek draperies with pep
lum, girdIe and Attic embroidery, not in
the pettiere forms, but dignifed, graceful,
and yet youthful, these in any suitable
spring color SUIT the college girl.-Chicdgo
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