San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-02-26
FASHION POINTS.

for little French jackets to be worn
with black silk skirts.
The newest cotton balmorals are OF
! Scotch ginghams in fine stripesOf gray
and white, dark red and other cOlors.
They are neatly made with French
| woke, so that all the fullness can be
drawn to the back, and finished with
a nine-inch flounce around the bot
tom, which is embroidered with the
needle in scallops aad dots.
The silk goods for spring and sum-
mer wear are shown in gros grain and
| faille grounds and in lustrous satins.
There are few plain satins used, ex-
cept in coIors, but all striped or
brocaded silks are either Of satin or
of aeon binatiOn of satin and the he
brilliant" gros grain, called ''pOu
de sorie." A great many bengalines
have been imported in solid color and
in figures for combination with sheer
woods or India silks for entire cos
tunes.
Plaidsd, stripped and figured silks
are imported in great variety of col
or, but in less pronounced patterns
than last season. Shaded or cameo
effects in which several tones of one
color are used are frequently seen.
Soft rich colorings are preferred to
bizarre hues. They are cold
muscovite green's, dove colors,
silver grays, steely Saxon blues
and the new eggplant shades
though the red puppies, which have
been known for centuries under the
name of eggplant colors" to Chinese
porcelain-makers, can hardly be call
ed new colOrs.
"Scale patterns" in satin, in design
little larger than the scale plate OF
old armor, are especially effective
combined with dresses of wool, made
with large gIgot sleeves of silk in
place Of velvet, and finished with fiat
points and girdle of silk. Such silks
are shown ia Congo puppies, Saxon
blue, dove color and other refined col
ors, and in black. Bold, effective fig
ures of gros-grain in stripes and "all-
over" pattern are shown in black for
combination with black serges, cam
els-hair, and the exquisite sllk-warped
black fabrics which drape so beauti-
fully and keep their color without
turning gray.
Striped satins are shown this season
in several tones of one color and in
subdued mixtures of color; in some
cases the sides of alternate stripes are
figured with a row of tiny buds or
with several rows half-covering the
stripe. Fine lines in black "cross- barr
some of the richest figured silks. A
pattern in satin and brilliant" gros-
grain shaded in cameo effect shows a
leafy all-Over pattern in satin thrown
on grOs-grain background and
striped twice IN width with waving
messy line in black. Such patterns |
are especially pretty in Bordeau rose,
blush cascade green's, in the new |
Saxon blues, or the subdued, silvery !
purple shades called 'COngon in honor
of the success of Stanley in Africa. |
There is also a Stanley plaid, a fam
cy plaid which is exhibited among
the tartan plaids. The beautiful ca
meo plaids in several tones OF one |
color, with some white, are in bold
patterns, which will make beautiful
dress fronts and accessory trimming
to gowns of wool, and in some cases
will be used for entire underskirts to
costumes. Tartan plaids are to be
found in all the combinations Of the
clans, to be used with
gowns of WOOL they are TOO warm
looking to remain in favor after the
spring season opens, when they will
be chiefly sought after ior children's
dresses. Changeable tattetas striped
with bands of black or white in
ChantiIly lace patterns are made with
a double warp, so that the black or
white band is thrown on ground in
two shades of rich color.
Black silks are preferred in subdued
lustre. The new satin regence is
soft satin with an almost invisible
stripe in the weave. 1t has a dead
lustre of about the Drilliancy of a rich
faille Franchise. This is the newest
for black dOsilk esses of one
though faille Francois,
which has become a standard silk
and which has entirely superseded
the old-time gros grain, is still used.
Satin regence and faille are Doth silks
wear. They begin in price at 81, and
Sl.75 to 81. A good double warped
Surah that will not pull at
the seams is another black silk
WHICH Will give great zeal OF sat-
to the wearer. A good
quality, which will give service, is
sold at 81 "A yard in twenty four-inch
width. At the same price may be
found black Shanghai surah, which
is as light as an India silk, but free
from the uneveness of weave that
that goods. Black bro
cades in small set patterns, are al
ways in demand for entire dresses
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