Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-07
DAME FASHION.
wHArsHr DICTATES 70 THE PEOPLE OF
rHw YORK.
Acsstly Sight-Srsss-- vartess Styles -silka
Brecadss-fer . School
0iri-Netes.


INV YoRx, April s, 1889.
India and China silks are seen in hun
dreds of new designs and are becoming
exceedingly popular. During the sum
mer they will be universally worn at the
seaside and country resorts, and many
ladies are beginning preparations for the
annual fight from the city by adding
three OF four gowns OF these fabrics TO
their wardrobes A very effective yet
simple model for costume OF this kind
il so made as TO utilize fully the draping
possibilities OF the material The back
and right side give the effect OF a
draped skirt made very foil, but there is
mn added drapery of the same material
in front, falling in long deep folds from
the waist down but caught up 10 the right
hin. Large bows Of velvet ribbon with
long ends are placed at appropriate
places on the skirt and ono at the waist.
The upper portion is in the form OF a
loose basque gathered in by eight or nine
rows Of shirring ct the waist, and just
below the end OF The narrow vest, which
is OF white embroidery. Bordering this
nre wide reyers OF velvet. The sleeves
are pufied at the shoulders, but fit closely
from there down.
LINGERIE.
Fashionable lingerie becomes more
elaborate and more costly with every
successive season. The silk underwear
In not now so expensive either, as some
of the white goods A set consisting OF
five piAces in fine white lawn costs from
$3.50 to $500.
Among the more notable specimens
shown by large house here is night
dress in fine, web-hke linen lawn, made
with lsce yoke in real Valenciennes,
in very pretty and entirely
new form, being in the shape OF
q star. Three points extend downwards
in front and three behind, while one lies
upon each shoulder. The loose wide
sleeves are inserted with lace. A che
mise produced IN a Parisiam work-room
is chiefly to be noted for the exquisite
fneness OF the hand-embroidery with
which the shallow round neck is edged.
The stitches are all but invisible. The
garment is of linen-lawn and is further
trimed With Yalenciennes lace. Its price
was ascertained to be S3j.
SILKS.
India and China and japanese silks,
rs we'll rs surab, are much worn, espe-
cislly for summer underwear. Plain
colors. too, are not so much favored as
figured goods. A set of underwear IN
bright-coored patterned silk would have
seemed few years ago grotesque; now
il is simply fashionable. One night
dress in China silk is made very full in
front. drawing in to form sn " Empire
waist with yoke of very fine tucks. over
which q deep collar of lace falls. The
wide sleeves have great pufs at the
shoulders, and are formed OF alter
nate bands OF lace and silk Such a
garment may be purchased for from $40
to SS5, according to the costliness OF the
trimming. Another night-gown ia IN
pale blue eurah, being the most delicate
and dainty of all. 1t is made with a
front of embroidered white silk null,
tied in at the waist with broad blue
ribbon. In white sursh, suits are being
trimmed proiusely with colored hand
embroidery, usually in foisl designs,
the flowers being worked in the natural
tints. The embroidery is about two
inches aud half in width and is used
10 form cuffs, collar, and belt for the
night-dress, neck-edging for the che
mise, etc, giving rather startling
effect.
WALKING DRESS.
An elaborate Directoire walking dress
for the season is in Mazarin blue-faced
cloth, made in redingote fashion, the
front of the skirt consisting of a full
panel of white cashmere. Broad, three
cornered revers of velvet are turned back
from a tucked vest Of white surah. reach
ing only as far up as the bust, from there
TO the collar being filed with the white
cashmere. A folded girdle OF velvet APP
pears at the waist.
BRocADEs.
The new brocades shown have their
grounds almost invariably in armure
or royale weaves One of the newest
designs is of autumn leaves III the natu-
ral colors. which are reproduced with q
pleasing accuracy.
A neat schoOl-dress for a girl from
twelve TO fifteen is in gray woollen goods,
vast and skirt in one, the former box
plated, and with deep yoke OF velvet.
At the waist is belt, below which the
skirt is full, but plain and without
drapery.
NOTES.
Ar1nures and roysles are the fashiona-
Bile silk weaves.
Garden dresses are seen, in light silks,
crepes, and crepons made in very pic
turesqus styles.
Blouse waists of China silk for the
house are scasonRble and comfortable.
On the new french parasols the ribs,
inside, are drspod with lace, giving a
rich and novel effect.
To the list of eastern names for the
silk veayes We must now add bur
mese." Il resembles Bengaline.
Nelssquez point is the lace now.
Some OF the new imported evening gowns
and & few Of the costliest caITisge-robes
or wraps are trimmed with it.
Cashmere "robes are marked from
$50 10 $50. The goods are of exceptional
fineness, aud made with scallops, en-
broidered borders for trimming, many
OF them showing metal effects
The Spencer waist is worn again-it
forms very appropriate home attire.
Figured vellines are in particularly
extensive variety this year. G. Ii. NJ
Nervousness.
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