The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-01
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
Charming Cloth Costumes Made Acooro'
ing TT tho Latest Styles.

ing TT the Latest Styles.
The Empire p~o,onaise cloth costumes
for slender young women are very
handsome in cloths of two color:
trimmed with wide goi.a BRAID the
front of the waist crossed and ~recrossee
with thickly-repped ribbons. a gree
cloth %polonaise bordered with gol'
braid two inches wide is made up >''e'
a tan cloth skirt, with the lowe
sleeves of tau-color, also the plastron,
while the bust has heavy corded green
ribbon crossing in Empire fashion, and
hanging nearly to the floor a trife to
the left CT the front. The tan skirt is
full and plain, with two rows of gold
braid around it above a hem. The
polonaise laps to the left side, and has
a single triangular evers turned back
on the waist, disclosing a plastron and
collar of tan-colOred cloth. The rib.
bon then begins in the arm-hole on the
right side, crosses to the left lower
down, then returns to the right
side at the waist line, and
recrosses as a wide Empire sash
with dropping ends on the left.
The sleeves are green from the top to
the elbows, and are pushed up in high
folds around the armholes; below the
elbows they are tightly fitted and Of
tan cloth; the upper full parts taper
downward, are pointed at the elbows,
and are edged there with gold braid.
This and similar picturesque dresses
chosen for afternoon wear and for day
receptions are worn with an Empire
poke bonnet Or a projecting-brimmed
round hat the color Of the cloth, with
ostrich tips and wide loops of ribbon
for trimming.
Other most graceful wool gowns are
made of the widely-bordered camel's-
hair stuffs, with the border at the foot
OF the very plain skirt. which is made
round, with a great deal of fulness in
the back, where it hangs in natural
and graceful folds. The grayish En-
pire green woods, with border of darker
green half a yard deep around the
skirt, make very tasteful gowns with
this simple skirt and a round waist
opening over a gathered habit-shirt of
white or paler green wool; revers of
the striped wool are made broad and
short, and there is a wide sash cross
ing the front of black MORE
ribbon with ends hanging down
the left side. The back of the
skirt is gathered to pass yer the edge
of the round bodice, and modistes sup
port this by a very slight pad hustle
sewed to the edge of the bodice. The
full sleeves give the effect of high
folds around the armhole; but taper
below in leg-of-mutton shape. Red
cloths and red India camel's hair in
various shades are made up with a
vest of white cloth wrought nearly all
over with gold cord, then draped from
each side of the vest with white ben
galine folds that cross at the waist line
under a short belt of the white cloth
with gold cording. Other red-cloth
redingotes have the odd decoration of
copper cording instead of gold. Cop
per shades of cloth are made up over
very dark blue velvet skirts, with a
vest G blue velvet, striped lengthwise,
with copper cords in the long redin-7
cote. A novel way of Frightening
black-cloth r~edingotes is to edge the
braided revers, collar and cuffs with a
narrow piping fold of light yellow
cloth. Greens with tan-color, and
gray-greens with black. copper with
blue that is almost plum-color. and
dark beaver browns with dark fur, are
fashionable colors for wool gowns.
Other trimmings for cloth gowns are
applications of cloth in flower designs
or fur to be used as vests, cuffs, etc.
The cloth is much pucke1od up after
the natural-looking designs of ribbon
work, and its edges are covered with
cord; thus Suede-colored cloth makes
large flower branches on black Rus
sian lamb fur, and is edged with gilt
cord; red cloths and pale greens are
used on natural seal fur and on Per-,
sian lamb-skin. Silver embroidery IL
mixed silver and gray silk threads is
also very fashionable trimming for
white, for gray, and for blue Goth
gowns; the rose, shamrock, and thistle
are favorite designs for this work
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