St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-17
FASHIONABLE FABRICS.
Woolens, Challis and Bengalines for Demi'
Season Costumes.


Woolens, Challis and Bengalines for Demi~
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 a silk or with
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 penciled 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 Gobelln
blues, china blues. in Suede colors,
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 a 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 as a collar.
revers, or plastron, and cuffs of velvet,
water silk or plain Bengaline-
The printed Bengalines 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-
tial wool mixture in the reps The
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 loveliest 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 a 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 OF green, and on light golden
brown surfaces Boughs of the Jap
anese ounce are favorite designs. with
| their wide-spreading branches of pink
blossoms without foliage, in their nat
| ural tints, and in other coloring moi
known to nature, as yellow ounce
blossoms with pinkish stems. or blue
blossoms on brown boughs. Other jar
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| held by blue or rose ribbons tied i'm
| great bow-knots. or white medallions
holding pretty sprays of carnations OF
chry santhemums, while vines of small
| buds and leaves are SCI in rows to fol- m
stripes on cael blue, Rose Dubar ~,
Suede color, or pale green grounds.
Black Bengalines with yellow or scar
let peoples, roses or stripes are also
shown; and there are pointille designs
Of the finest dots Of color on white,
black or cream-tinted surface, to which
larger figures or flowers are some
times added. When only two colors
are seen in the new Bengalines, cream
white is always present, and forms
pretty stripes, or vermicelli patterns,
or large outlines of leaves on gray.
blue, navy-b'ue, copper, or poppy-red
grounds. Harper Bazaar.
| "A meteoric stone, of large size.
was recently seen to descend rapidly
through the air, near Middleburg, Fla.
Parties were organized to search
for it, and it was found. Il
had been broken into several frag.
ments by striking stump. the larger