The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-09-26
THE COMING STYLES.
Secrets That Have Crept Out from Il
Leading Partisan Workshops.

Secrets That Have Crept Out from the
Leading Partisan Workshops.
As / have said, women and dress
makers are firing of the present mixed
up styles of dress, and change is ex,
pected in the fall. In point of fact tho
medley of bygone styles fashioned to
form the present is very homogeneous.
Models of it give us the empire skirt,
the straight up and down sheath with
out sign of drapery or trimming; the
long bodice. especially the back, recalls
those worn by the wasp-waisted women
of Louis XV.'s court; the front bodice,
very ornate, rather flattened down the
front, and curving in at the hips, is per-
haps the only novelty which deserves
the name; the highly pulled sleeve is a
reminiscence of the renaissance, so arc
tho Elizabethan ruff and the Medicis
collars; the metal belts belong to the
middle ages, and the broad hat is a med
ley of the empire with the fat time
which came after; the long handles of
umbrellas and parasols remind one of
the empire canes, and the shoes include
two periods, the pointed toes of the re-
Nuisance and the modern walking heel,
AS you see, we are in the composite
period of dress. Reve in his new albums
shows his desire to turn back to the
Louis Nv. style, to copy it more faith
fully, to the exclusion of some of the
rest, and no doubt he will have his way,
for couturiers large and small willingly
yield to his changes, and adopt what he
dictates without much murmuring. In
deed, those at the head of large estab-
lishments have not much time to MUIR
muir, much less to invent, new dresses
and styles.
Among the elegant toilets invented
by REEVE for the seaside and watering
places is pompadour crepe de Chine,
to which he added the panniers so much
regretted by ladies whose hips are in
sufficient to support the present fash
ions. Those crapy stuffs strewn with
variegated flowers and soft green foliage
are always the most effective for prom
enading in parks or for driving in ave-
nues shaded with trees, whose overtop-
ping branches temper the suns rays and
throw just enough greenish tint to en-.
hance physique and dress. Nothing
seems wearable this season unless it has
dash of yellow to touch up other
shades and help them to do their duty
in brightness. This cream pompadour
dress was strewn with large pink and
crimson roses and yellow daisies, and
the foliage interlacing the folds was so
disposed as to run in longitudinal
stripes. The straight skirt was gathered
just little at the waist in front, SO as
to look as if it were just a bit tucked up:
then it was disposed into wide panels at
the sides, which met at the back
wait and incased the fan-shape plaits
of the back. The underskirt was
pale pink silk. The front edge
of the front panel on the left was
trimmed with a row of rosettes made of
yellowish green ribbon to match the
foliage. From the front gathers small
panniers of crepe were draped over the
hips, folded and terminating with the
joining of the side panels over the black
fan skirt. The bodice, as much as mod
ern style will allow, was the Louis Nv,
pointed in front and back, of pompadour
crepe de Chine. The front of the bodice
was trimmed with plastron of cream
Ncnitian guipure, lying in downward
laid festoons, growing narrower as they
reached the waist; neck band of guipure.
Band and plastron were lined with pale
pink silk. Down the left side of the
crepe de Chine, near the face, FIVE small
green rosettes formed the bodice trim
ming. Cream guipure sleeves, plain and
tight to the elbow, then draped and
pulled on pale pink silk founda ton.
Broad brimmed Leghorn hat, of clear
fancy straw which was scalloped all
around tho edge, then lined in pale
pink silk, trimmed with cream ostrich
tips, which lay. in large bunch on the
front brim, and another at the back,
coming forward on the crown. Wide
green strings attached to the close-it-
ting back, brought forward and tied into
a large bow under the chin. - Chicago
Times.