Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-07


derskirt of white washing silk came
| closer about the neck, and had a rolling
collar and silk tie. A red sailor hat,
trimmed with white ribbons, was placed
jauntily on q head whose hair was almost
but not quite as dark as her large lumi-
nous eyes.
NOTES
Ecru pongee is used fol petticoats.
Selvedges form the trimming to some
of the summer gowns,
White China silk is one of the favorite
fabrics for summer dresses.
A French waist has the neck cut little
low and i'll square tabs, which lie over
frills of lace.
All dresses give the appearance of
comfort and GOODNESS, a reaction having
set IN against the stiff whaleboned tailor
made dresses.
''The chief thing said a London
dressmaker the other day, sis to make
the bodice so that nobody shall know how
you got into it. -
White skirts are made with f1ounces up
the back, for now that steels are dis
carded the dresses must be kept out in
some way or other.
Mousseline de sole, as we have already
said, is used for full sleeves of summer
dresses when a transparent fabric is re-
quired, and is newer than lace for this
purpose.
Collars to walking suits are made half
the height they were last winter, and
turned back lace and pleated ruffles on
narrow bindings form the frills about the
neck Of their gowns.
The revolution in sleeves is accepted.
Some of the newest are very wide at the
top and either lace or button inside the
arm. French women allow them to
drop over the hand, carrying out the
medieval in its entirety.
Mousseline de sole hats rival those of
tulle for dressy summer wear. They
are closely shirred and mounted on fine
wires the color of the mousseline, and
are trimmed with puffs and loops of the
diaphanous silk null or else of heavy
velvet by way of contrast, and also with
the black birds aud black butterflies now
in vogue
Long silk, mohair and alpaca
cloaks or coats are worn for
travelling. These are made large
enough to go over the dress with
ease, have usually loose fronts tied with
a ribbon at the waist, or confined there
by belt, and reach nearly to the bot
tom of the gown.
silks, or washing silks have the back and
front breadths en- princesse-all in one
piece from head to foot-Yet shirred at
waist line instead of being gored there to
fit the figure. The side breadths are
separate from the waist and are shirred
on the hips, the join TO the waist being
hidden by large gathered and square
cornered pockets that are sewed to the
waist
The yokes, so fashionable for thin wool
ems and Tor cotton gowns are very shall
low, not reaching quite to the armholes
on the shoulders, and are round IN front
and back instead of being pointed. They
are sometimes very prettily decorated by
an embroidered collar in deep Vandyck
points that nearly cover the yoke. The
fullness below the yoke is attached by an
erect ruffle of the material, doubled, and
standing about an inch high above the
edge of the yoke.
Black net dresses, made with accor-
deon plating or simply laid in rather
narrow plaits, are very popular. These
skirts fall straight from the waist, and
usually have five or seven rows Of inch
| wide satin or watered ribbon around the
skirt just above the hem. The bodices
are made according to fancy trimmed