River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-29
NEAT COTTON GOWNS.
The Straight English skirt Will BE I'll
Proper Thing This summer.

The Straight English skirt Will BE the
Proper Thing This Summer.
Most of the imported cotton dresses
are made without reference to being
washed, as they are meant to be cleansed
only once or twice season, by the dry
process known to professional scourers;
but the beauty of such gowns lies in their
dainty freshness, and the best designs
for making them are those that can be
most easily Numbered. In order to
wash well, and for the sake of greater
GOODNESS, cotton dresses should have a
waist lining or foundation skirt, but the
best modistes prefer to make them over
a fitted whaleboned lining of French
cambria, that is without dressing and
will not shrink. The foundation skirt
is also of this cambria, faced with dress
goods, or is entirely of the material of
the dress. 1t has four gored breadths,
and is two yards and quarter wide at
the foot. 1t is tied back by one or two
Distinguishing run through castings
low in the back; single short steel is
added. If necessary, to prevent it falling
too close against the wearer.
The skirt most used for wash dresses
is the clinging straight English skirt,
with six-inch hem at the foot, or a
bias fold faced upon the outside as a
false hem, and trimmed at the top with
a piping fold or narrow embroidered
edge. Those who are weary of this
familiar design use the skirt of five
straight breadths of yard-wide goods
laid in four plaits in 'front.' meeting in
the middle, and gathered elsewhere to
the belt, then lifted in one place only
by single deep plat, either on the left
side or quite far back on the right, to
show gathered founce at the foot of
the foundation skirt. In order to give
the appearance of an over-skirt, which
is gradually coming back into favor.
there are round skirts of four and half
breadths shirred to the belt and edged
with knife-plaited ruffle, or with lace
or embroidered edging, then caught up
high on each side by a chain of ribbon
bows, or by two or three rosettes on the
hips; one or two flounces are set on the
under-skirt, or it has rows of insertion
or of velvet ribbon above a deep hem.
The skirt with deep Spanish fiounce is
also again worn, having flounce of
three widths of the material on the
front and sides, meeting two long
straight breadths at the back; this
flounce is set on ten inches below the
belt, and is gathered in two puffs, or
shirred closely with one or two stand
ing RIFLES The space above has only
half the fullness of the flounce, and is
gathered or tucked fatty. Another
pretty skirt has four breadths of cam
brio for the sides and back, with front
breadth shirred on four thick cords ten
inches below the belt, and drawn into
space Of sixteen inches. Flat back
draperies hanging in two jabots from
belt to foot are seen on bordered dresses,
with three bordered tabliers crossing
the front and covering it from top 10
bottom. Two handkerchief corners are
placed at the top of the back of plain
skirts to relieve fat figure. Two or
three rows of insertion above the hem
is the popular way of trimming with
embroidery, and there is also return
to front panel of EN- broidery, with the
material laid in folds beside it, as if
opening upon an inner skirt.
A graceful skirt for white dotted and
sprigged muslins, or for sheer colored
lawns, has front breadth twenty-eight
inches wide, drawn up by few gathers
at the top, while the straight back and
sides are three yards and quarter wide.
A yard on each side is taken up in two
tucks an inch and half wide, drawn
into space of ten inches by ribbon run
through them and finished with bows.
The bodice, shirred on the shoulders
and waist line, has the space between
tie fullness of the fronts faced and
studded with small tied bows of three
quarter inch ribbon placed an inch or
u,ore apart from the neck to the waist.
The sleeves, full and high on the sboul.
ders. have narrow shirred cuffs with a
heading at the upper edge, through
which ribbon is drawn and tied. Stand
ing collar shirred also, with two bows at
front-Harper's Bazaar.