Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1889-08-09
MORNING DRESSES:
Severe styles and Simple Designs the
Proper Thing.

Severe Styles and Simple Designs the
Proper Thing.
The best black sateens have dull
finish like that of Henrietta cloth, and
the newest black ginghams have sateen
stripes woven in them in black and in
white. Black and gray ginghams are
stylish in wide stripes, and give excel
lent service, as they do not show soil.
Even stripes of black and white are eff
fective in Scotch ginghams, and make
cool dresses, requiring only some black
ribbon for trimming the waist. Black
French lawns are made OF better quality
than formerly, and the wiry linen
batistes, all black or striped with white,
make most refined dresses. The straight
round skirts and gathered belted waists
may be made without lining, and worn
over black silk, surah, or lawn skirt
and under-waist thut will serve for va
rious dresses. Modistes are using black
lawn for foundation skirts of their black
dresses, as 1t is less costly and lighter
than the low-priced gros grain silks,
and also wears better. Waist Innings
OF sateen or light selesia are liked with
black only on the outside, and white or
gray inside. White null. with deep
hens hem-stitched, or with some blocks
or Greek keys OF black embroidered
above hem, make pretty house dresses
for those wearing deep mourning.
Severe styles and simple designs are
chosen for mourning attire, but there
are no models prepared especially for
mourning dresses. The fashions in ia
vor for colored dresses-the Empire
and Directoire gowns, the princesse
dresses, the gathered, the Tapped and
belted waists, the full sleeves, and the
straight skirts-are copied in the dull
black fabrics worn as mourning, but
are made TO look simpler, and are less
elaborately trimmed. There are, how
ever. some features and some trim
mings now in vogue that are particu-
larly well suited to mourning costumes,
such as the plaitea skirt with its low-
ing lines. the bands OF ribbon falling
fat down from belt to foot, the milli-
ners' folds, the rows OF ribbon forming
. border around the skirt, the accor-
dion-plaiting for perts OF skirts. and
tho knifo-plaited Directoire frills for
the corsage, and some OF these enter
into most OF tho well-made black |
gowns.
Widows dresses are extremely plain, |
but are made OF such rich fabrics as |
Henrietta cloth or nuns yelling, with |
vest and panels OF English Grape, or
else they are entirely of the Grape over
silk. The back and sides OF the skirt
fall in wide natural-looking folds, while |
tho front may be slightly draped, and the |
whole bordered with wide Grape fold,
or else there are fine plaits down tho
front, or perhaps panels or plaits OF
Grape. The close high bodice extends
just below the waist line in dull point
in front and back, and the back OF the |
skirt is hooked on the bodice. The |
sleeves must be high in the shoulders,
and may be either coat-shape or leg-of-
mutton shape, as the wearer chooses.
Skirts Of house dresses lie ten inches on
the floor in the back. and those for the
street are apt to be mqIe quite long.
The collar, cuffs and cap are distinctive
features OF a widows toilette. The turn
over collar and wide cuffs worn outside
the sleeves are Of white nainsook or
batiste or organdy, with inch wide hem
turned up on the outside. and some oil
these sets have hems hem-stitched with
black. The widows cap OF white crimp-
cd Grape puffs, whom worn by young
women, is quito small and fiat. pointed
toward the forehead, straight at the
buck, and tapering down the sides to
fasten under tho low-coiled back hair;
four or five OF the small Grape puffs
known as widows ruches cover IL en-
tirely. For older ladies. tucked strings
that hang below the back hair are added
10 such caps, while other caps for those
still older have large crowns to take In
'hs back hair, -'Harpors BasaG