Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-04
GOWNS FOR AUTUMN.

I GOWNS FOR AUTUMN.
some Of the styles Represented ia the
/ First Isnportations Of the Season.
Long reiingote gowns, polonaises'
| 1irectoire coats and pleated skirts are
represented in the first importations
for autumn and winter. Wool dresses
will be either plain, striped. bordered
or in piaids, and there will again be
combinations of two kinds of wool
stuffs in the same gown, as a ribbon
striped skirt with plain wool polo
naise, or else two colors of a plain
| fabric, as a brown polonaise or coat
with green skirt that is bordered
with brown stripes. favorite arrange
ment of colors. or else gray with blue,
or reseda with ruby. The bordered
fabrics permit some very new features
in simple gowns: thus lower skirt of
green wool, bordered with brown in
which are gold stripes, is laid in broad
double box plait in front and on the
sides, with the border at the foot, while
the full back is shirred below the belt.
Over this is a polonaise of brown wool,
with gold-striped border, made with a
single panel formed of the stripes gO-
ing down the right side, while the
front is crossed diagonally from the
fullness on the left shoulder to the right
hip, meeting the panel there and drop
ping in a long panier on the left side.
The throat is in V shape, and the
right side only is smooth and finished
with the border, while a full-pulfed V
OF the green wool fills the space below
the upright green collar. The coat
sleeves are full at the top, and have a
caff formed of the striped border. An
other pretty combination of cashmere
and silk which the home dre5s-maker
can easily carry out for an early
autumn costume of gray, or green, or
rosewood cashmere and faille has a
foundation skirt covered down the
front with plaits of the faille and
plating of the same or velvet border
around the foot. The cashmere waist
is a square coat in front and on the
sides, falling only four Or five inches
below the waist line, while the middle
back forms are cut off at the waist line.
The front is turned back at the top
with silk or velvet revers to show a
plated or pulled plastron of white or
rose-colored China Grape; the high col
lar has shirred Grape in its front, and
similar shirring is inside the sleeves,
where they are turned back from the
wrists and faced triangularly with
velvet or faille. The drapery is three
widths of cashmere as long as the
lower skirt, shirred closely around the
top six or seven inches deep and open
down the front to show the
plated silk petticoat its entire length.
Revers of silk or velvet may be turned
back down each side of the front of
the cashmere. The drapery is care
lessly caught up in deep fold below
each hip but hangs straight behind
and in front. 1t is finished with a
wide hem blind-stitched. o. else with a
facing of silk. Many of the new wool
gowns have silk shirt-waists, belted
and worn with coats that have loose
fronts in the way in vogue during the
summer. Correspondents who ask for
early designs for new gowns will do
well to copy that just described for
combinations of silk over velvet, or of !
cashmere over silk, while for palmer |
serges and cheyiots for travelling |
gowns the blouse shirt of twilled silk |
may be used with plated skirt and a |
jacket of the wool. White cloth vests |
and revers with small gilt buttons
fastening the vest will be worn with |
cloth gowns and with chuddah and |
cheviot dresses. Green, especially in
the gray. resida, and rush shades, will
be fayorite color for handsome visit
ing costumes of silk, velvet, and of |
cloth. and there will be many combina-
lions OF green with other colors, nota-
bly, with suede, brown and red shades.
Waists will be as deliberately trimmed
as they at present, few fabrics being
bought too heavy to be shirrel or ar
ranged III folds or puffs. Polonaises
with diagonal fronts are largely i'm
ported. and are becoming to both
slender and stout fgures.-Harpcr's
Bds0r.
SOME NEW SWlNDLES.