River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-04-04
STYLISH DRESS FABRICS.
Wooden Stuffs and Trimmings for Spring
and Summer Gowns.

WOODEN Stuffs and Trimmings Tor Spring
and Snmmer Gowns
Spring cashmeres Of delicate gray,
reseda, fawn and rush-green shades
are deliberately embroidered in colored
silks and metals on the draped front of
the corsage and skirt Vines OF flow
crs form a border for the foot and sides
Of the skirt. while small rose-buds,
leaves and sprays are wrought in nat
ural colors all over the trimmed
breadths. The waist of cashmere is
over a pointed lining, on which it is
draped to show no darts, the embroid-
cred part extending in q single piece
across to the left side and thence TO
the long point, wkcr3 i Is met by a
girdle of ombre ribbon. The back has
the embroidery II point down to the
waist line, and the skirt hooks there
above the edge. The sleeves are full
over a coat-sleevc lining, with draped
folds of the embroidery at the top and
at the wrists, where an embroidered
band is set under like an under-sleeve
and held by small ombre bow. The
skirt is straight behind and very full.
with very short steels and no pad
hustle
Very sheer wooden stuffs for spring
and summer gowns are woven sleazily
in straight threads like vailing and
bunting, and there are also many can
vas-like goods as we'll as heavier
twilled serges. Plain colors, blocks,
checks and stripes are in these new
fabrics. Tobacco-brown and tan-col-
orcd woolens are frightened by Scotch
plaid sashes Of silk surah with fringe
raveled out, or else Of lnotted silk of
all the colors across the ends. SOme-
times a breadth of the gay plaid silk
is inserted down the right side of the
skirt and fringed across the foot, and
there is a gathered plastron or vest
and cuffs to match A full puff of this
sil1e, like an under-sleeve. is in the
wool sleeves, and a narrow cuff or band
Of velvet is at the wrist.
Summer camel's-hair OF a stylish
color is bordered with embroidery like
-ut-worl, where the design is wrought
on the goods and the material between
cut out Vandyck designs of this OPEN
work are used with the points turned
upward across the foot of the front
of the skirt, up the sides,
and on the corsage. Thus a
chaudron camels-hair dress has the
bodice Tapped in front and bluntly
pointed, with the high collar and a
point below it cut out in Vandycks of
open design wrought with silks of the
same shade. Other gowns of thin
mOhair fabric in shot beige and rose
color, or green with brown, have the
entire waist and sleeves of this open
embroidery, showing a silk lining be-
meath, while the full skirt has a border
twenty inches deep all around of the
same snowy work. The Scotch plaid
silk sash is feature of these dresses
also, that on the chaudron wool form
ing the whole drapery OF the back, and
being of very soft, light colors-a fawn
ground with old-rose, and lines of pale
blue, touch of green, and some light
bars of the chaudron of the dress.
Blocks two inches square are in
many of the light spring woOlens in
most varied coloring, forming some
times the entire gown, and in other
cases only part of the over dress
and breadth of the skirt, or else the
entire skirt is of the blocked wool. with
plain wool for the redingote or the jack
et-basque. A pretty model of twilleG
wool has old-rose blocks alternating
with cream white blocks for the side
draperies of an old-rose polonaise,
also for folds on the bust and at the
sleeves, while the skirt is plain old
rose wool, except part of a blocked
breadth in the middle of the back.
which the polonaise discloses. Other
blocked woods are a meiange of three
different colors throughout, with one
of these colors prominent in each block,
as mixed squares of grayish-blue old
rose and beige have their colors so diff
ferently blended that in one block
blue tone prevails, in the next rose.
and the third is beige in tone. Such
stutfs, on account of their bold design,
are very simply made, with round
basque and full skirt, and the novel
fancy is to introduce velvet bands
around the skirt in heading or tr0u-
trou fashion, by cutting Sits in the
fabric and drawing the velvet through
them. -liarper's Bazaar.