Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-07-29
THE FASHIONS.

THE FASHIONS.
Materials, Styles and Costumes for Ev0n
ing Wear At Summer Resorts.
Baltimore Ssn.
For the gay summer season, TO be worn
at Newport, Saratoga and other summer
resorts, modistes have designed and pre-
pared most beautiful toilsttes. Specially
charming and varied are those costumes in
tended for evening wear at watering places.
Elaborate gowns rival those modelled in
elegant simplicity. These mmme dresses
are composed chiefly Of soft, creamy, crepes
de chine, China silks, foulards in Pompa-
dour designs, crepe lisse textiles, stamped
with pale, delicate aofers and foliage,
glace silks and India tissues of various
kinds, made up on soft undressed
silks, or worn over slips India ba-
tiste. Diaphanous materials are very fash
ionable, and some lovely dresses are made
Of mulls, lawns, crepes, gauzts and tulles.
Dark TITLES show off medium compilations
best. For these are deep dark green, blue,
brown and red tulle toilettes, while the
psler delicate shades of pink, blue and
green are becoming to blondes. Fancy
These are beaded many ways and embroid-
cred in gold and silver. Colored nets and
laces are also worn. These nets are in
stripes, spots and block patterns. The
louncing laces come in large, round meshee
of Brussels net, with large designs Of
flouuces or geometric figures. These dot
dresses are usually made up over satin or
taffeta silk, and are trimmed with flouncee,
plated, on which are rows Of narrow moire.
satin or faille ribbon.
Many pretty lace dresses are made of
dark olive, green and brown shades. Shot
yelling is among the fashionable thin ms.
terials. Ii has . silk selvage, which ia
used as a trimming. Often 3 petticost is
made to match the selvage-red shot with
blue, with o red selvage, is made up over
q pettiooat of red faille. Overskirts Of
bengaline or MORE are worn graceful polo
naises of cashmere in light shades of reseda,
Suede or silver gray, and are often orna,
mented with steel gimps, the gimp form
ing q border on the skirt, and also cover
ing the collar and cuffs of the bodice.
Tulle, worn over . princess slip Of soft
silk, is in favor for ball gowns. Bali
dresses are lavishly decorated with lace
and flowers.
Many of the elegant t~oilettes for sum
mer evening wear are made of Oriental
fabrics, Transparent and silky, with bean
tiful rich coloring and stripes of gold,
choice moire textiles having the appear
apce of thick watered silk akeletopizsd,
yet retaining the gloss and rich coloring;
open-work silk grenadines and canvas
materials, Of the daintiest descriptions and
tints, striped with wa,ered ribbon. Many
summer afternoon and evening dresses are
copied from several periods. Those of the
First Empire, the Directory. and of the
reigns of Louis XIV. XIV, XVI all
being represented.
Msny charming costumes are made after
the art T0ilettes," which were 30 fash
ionable last winter. These dresses are
truly picturesque, with graceful draperies
falling from ore shoulder and caught in at
the waist with silver or pearl chatelsines.
The bodices are cut pointed in the back
and are decorated with pearl or oliver
ornaments to correspond with the chstel-
aine at the waist; both short and fl,w-
ing sleeves are used on these dresses,
but the latter are more artistic. French
dresses of this description for evening
wear are of pale apricot, golden green,
old rose, pale pink or blue and cream
white shades worn over silver and gold.
Another popular fancy is the POmpadour
gown of lower-brocaded satin, opening
wide over a petticoat Of old lace or velvet.
In this instance the waistcoat Is also Of vel
vet or lace, fastened with gem-set buttons
of gold or silver.
Sheer write wooden ~toilettes for evening
wear are %fashionsbly made in semi-classic
style.
A Greek dress recently made for a
young lady was composed Of pale blue and
| old rose ~.s,htnos~-r Asah-siIorcu In q gnu
vine wrought in gold thread. The old
rose color cashmere fell full from tho right
shoulder to the left of the waist. and
thence to the feet, with the blue color on
the left Of the corsage and falling down 10
form the skirt, which has peplum-pointed
sides and a princess back drapery Of the
old rose color.
A picturesque dress was made of change
able blue and Suede yelling, with q pale
blue salvage, drsped on a taffeta silk skirt,
shot in pale blue and Suede color, with
hand embroidery around the skirt, with q
hand Of blue bengaline below it. The
yelling was gathered on the shoulders OF
the waist over the silk, and WAS then
brought down in V shape behind. The
front had d shirred vest OF the plain
taffeta silk; from the under-arms seams
was brought a wide bias embroidered silk
girdle. The full sleeves were Of ~taffets,
tucked from the shoulder TO the elboH ",
and a cuff of embroidery below.
A black net dress, made in Empire
style, had the front covered with ~spangles
and gold embroidery; the black was com
posed of black net, with black graduated
dots in stripes upward from the bottom.
The round short waist was made half low
and had the net Tapped in the front and in
back, where a MORE sash was added; the
ends of its tabs were edged with gold balls.
White blonde lace dresses are pre.tily
made over white MORE antique, with the
c0rsages simply trimmed with q little gold
or silver braid or with delicate sprays OF
flowers.
Some elegant dresses were of white bro
caded MORE, with the lowered stripes
forming the design on each width.
The brocades of one tone are newer than
any other, and abroad they rival the revi-
val of the Louis XVI period, when drab
and cream grounds showed tiny floral
sprays in faint but natural coloriug.
Abroad q self. colored brocade is worn BY q
young matron intermixed with tulle.
Ball skirts are cut wider than last sea-
son, and either the tulle falls one above
the other in four or five layers, or else il Ia
worn over satin, when two only are neces-
sary, as the satin is allowed TO show
through. Sometimes single sprays OF
flowers or detached petals are scattered all
over the tulle~ draperies.
A lovely dancing toilette is made Of
Iime-green India silk tulle in combination
with silk Of q pale golden apricot shade.
Another is Of golden terra Gotta tulle dotted
with gold bead pendants, and worn over a
slip OF o darker terra Gotta silk shot with
amber.
A handsome dinner drees was made Of
black silk tulle mixed with black velvet
| and trimmed with white ostrich feathers.