Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-10-03
DRESSES FOR AUTUMN.



Charming Costumes Designed in Paris for
american Ladies'.
Another model also combines green
and mahogany. but in this dress the
green is grayish green wool. with
lengthwise short threads of mahogany.
of dark green, and black at wide iu-
tervals, made up over mahogany
velvet The medi8val cuirass of the
wool is double-breasted. and is even
around the hips. where it is slashed in
battlemented squares that show the
dark velvet underneath. The double
front laps to the right at the W aist
line, and above this opens in U shape
with curved revers Of the velvet. and
also a velvet plastron and collar. The
straight green wool skirt Is caught up
in folds on each hip. and drawn down
in curves across the front. displaying
the velvet there. and is slashed at the
foot up each side to show tower
shaped bit Of the velvet underskirt
A dark blue serge dress. with woven
borders of palms I'm cashmere coloring.
has broad chatelaine plait on the
left side OF It's straight skirt. catching
it up to show n lower skirt that has
the palm border. A sash Of blue
armure comes down from the front of
the waist to meet passementerie
ornament. and these together appear
to hold the plat in place. With this
is worn Directoire coat of the serge
with its back cut princesse. and ex-
tending from neck to foot. while the
sides and front are a short double
breasted jacket. with revers of the
palm border opening over a red velvet
waistcoat. which is also double breast
ed, though only seen at the throat and
waist line.
A cloth and armure-striped silk COM
bination dress is in the stylish mahog-
any shade. with black introduced in
brocaded fern leaves at the foot of the
armure breadths, and also in a great
sash, or rather a girdle. as it merely
encircles the waist A straight gath
cred breadth of the silk. with its fern
border at foot. is in the front, with
sides of the mahogany cloth that seem
to open on the silk, and there are six
black passementerie palm leaves placed
each side on the cloth near the silk;
two breadths of the bordered silk form
the straight back of the skirt. The
cloth round waist. full on the shout
ders and without darts. has V-shaped
plastron of black velvet, and a fold of
black velvet is let in from high in the
armholes to meet at the waist line I'M
der wide girdle of black velvet or of
black armure silk. The high collar is
black velvet covered with black passe-
menterie. and it has a point of the
gimp below the front falling on the
plastron; this point is surrounded by
frill of black lace, giving the effect
of a cravat. The cloth sleeves are
full at the top, with point of black
velvet let in and cuff to. match.
A nickel gray faced-cloth dress has
a corner piece of darker green velvet
fern leaves edged with tinsel cord on
the left side of the skirt. while the
right side is of straight folds of cloth
dropping down below V of the green
velvet on the hips. A breadth of
green velvet is up the middle of the
back of the skirt, and a sash of the
velvet crosses the front to fall low on
the left side. The gray cloth basque
is double-breasted. opening over a
b eart-shaped plastron that has the
fern leaves at top. High green velvet
collar. Easy coat sleeves full at the
armholes, with small cuffs of green
velvet.-Harper's Bazaar.