Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-30

new and palatable to fashionable taste, and
in such bewildering designs and combIna-
tions of colors, and almost countless num-
bers, that there is danger of the instinct of
choice becoming confused. and the difficulty
of making righteous selections augmented.
However, this embarrassment NAV be
obviated and shopping rendered less tire
some to both buyer and seller BY getting a
knowledge of the goods obtainable, and
deciding upon ones own needs and
desires beforehand. Courteous statesmen
and honorable merchants are in great de-
gree the production Of polite and agreeable
customers who know what they want before
they enter a store and how to buy it with
satisfaction to themselves, which also gives
satisfaction to merchant and employe. There
is a style in being well informed to goods
and in being fastidious in making selections
which gives no ofense to the vendor of
goods, but rather stimulates him to furnish
such a customer with the best in his line for
the price asked. There is no better school
in which TO cultivate the nohlesse oblige,
which means SO much in French and no less
in English, than in a store, whether before
or behind the counter.
PERFECT COPIES OF BETTER GOODS.
Ginghams, sateens. batistes, chambergs
and percales vie with each other for popular
preference, and are such perfect copies of
their silk and wooden relatives, that the diff
ference is scarcely perceptible upon first no.
tice. In sateens We have reproduced the
pretty flower, leaf, polka dot and other de-
signs commonly seen in Iudia and foulard
silks and in challies; and in lace effects
white on colored grounds--these for foot
trimming and the style OF makeup not diff
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perfectly initiate in colors and III this par
ticular design.
In the Scotch ginghams we have the tar
tan plaids of all the clans found in silk or
in wool, perfectly copied. For these
should think license would be issued for
making them up as picturesquely as desired,
for the Young particularly, and really it
would seem this gaily colored plaid in full
suits is only appropriate for those in their
first bloom. For the rest of us there are
fancy plaids in large or in smaller bars and
in stripes of all widths, in soft, delicate.
neutral tints, quite restful to the eve sur
feited with high colors. Some of these have
several colors blended; for instance, mauve,
rose-pink and Lavender, or heliotrope, beige
and old rose. One charming stri pc in vieux
rose and gobelin blue, the stripes alternat-
ing and two inches each in width, is dis
tlnctly remembered. These make up effec-
lively when combined with any color repre-
sented in the stripes. Side band ginghams
come in large checks on plain ground. One
pretty piece had the band or border checked
in yellow and white on blue ground. And
again these same have graduated stripes in
white on colored ground.
ONE OF THE PRETTIEsr.
Bourette gingham is one of the prettiest
novelties displayed. These have irregular
blocks-broken bars would be a palmer
term-in very rough-knotted threads thrown
up in shot work over the fabric. The most
effective of the bourettes have the shot work
In black and white over plain colors. These
are to be had in all of the new beige, old
rose, edison, reseda, etc., shades Black, in
stripes all black, or edging colored stripes,
all OF which have sateen surface, is a new
feature in ginghams. These stripes are
sometimes seen on the selvedge only, to be
used for trimming and again spaced all over
the plain ground with flowers in chine
patterns distributed between stripes la
pompadour. Even the Arabesque designs
are reproduced in the new ginghams. One
pattern of gobelin blue and yieux rose in
brOcaded stripes two inches wide, is dis
tinctly remembered out of the chaos of colors
and designs.
In the makeup Of wash material the pres
ent season, the popular idea seems to be to
cut all plaids and stripes on the bias, neces-
STATED no doubt by the dartless waist, which
is to have no showing of buttons
or other fastening and to ft SO snugly as