The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-03-13
New York Fashions.

WASH DRESSES.-When summer out
fits are prepared in advance of the sea-
son, the first attention is given to wash
dresses that are made up at home with
the assistance of seamstress, leaving
more elaborate gowns of wool or of silk
until the last word of fashion has been
brought by the modistes from the shops
of Paris and London. Those who fol-
low French models for their summer
gowns choose cambrics, prints and per-
Gales in stripes or flower designs,
wreaths or stripes of vines, or else with
borders, while the English taste is for
zephyrs and ginghams in bars, plaids,
and stripes, for lawns, batistes, and
lustrous sateens with flowers and with
borders. Pale buff, deeper yellow and
green are in the new ginghams and
cambrics, and are to be worn with
black ribbon sashes. Pink and old
rose will also be worn with black, and
are daintily pretty when trimmed with
white embroideries. The red and white
striped and plaid gowns of last summer
will be repeated in ginghams and per.
Gales. Gray and blue are clear cool
tints that look best with white en-
broidery for trimmings. Pink and
green are stylishly plaided together,
brown and Suede are striped with rose
color or with blue. and trimmed with
Suede ribbons, while white muslins have
yellow, old-rose, tan, or green ribbons
for sashes and for corsage bows.
BELTED WAISTS AND GATHERED
SKIRTS. The dresses most easily made
and Numbered are of two pieces. a
belted waist and full straight skirt,
without waist lining or foundation skirt.
The only seams in the waist are those
on the shoulders, which should be
short, and those under the arms, which
taper to the waist line. For stout
figures the shoulder seams are without
fulness, but for slender women the
fronts are gathered on the shoulders,
and both fronts and back are then
gathered at the waist line and sewed to
linen or muffin belt. 1t is a good
plan to extend the bodice below the
belt to push under the skirt belt, or
else it may be four or five inches long
there when hemmed, and is then worn
outside the skirt in spencer fashion.
The simplest prints are made up in this
way, with a turned-over collar or "A
knife pleating turned down from high
standing band, and are buttoned with
small pearl buttons set closely together.
The sleeves are full, high above the
armhole and are gathered into narrow
turned-over cuffs. or else they may be
easy coat sleeves made quite full at the
top. The belt may be merely the facing
band underneath stirring, or it may be
separate to wear outside, made of the
material of the dress or of embroidery,
lined and nterlined. Yokes will be
worn again made of lengthwise tucks
of the material or else of embroidery,
and there will be shirred yokes and
those drawn on cords, beginning in the
armholes and pointed in front and back.
The straight full skirt for these belted
waists is aoout four and half yards
wide for women of average height; it
is widely hemmed and the top slopes
or curves down from the sides to the
front, making the front two or three
inches shorter than the back; the two
back breadths are gathered into very
narrow space on the belt and the
others are held more scantily.-Har-
per'S Bazdr.