The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-24
DAISY TEA GOWNS.
Beautiful Clinging Robes for Fair
Women's Wear.

10 Inc Tea gowns III is ull1cuib 10 ue
justice in a written description, and
one especially is extraordinarily fanci-
full and brilliant. 1t is of the sur
prise order of attire-''as shines the
moon in clouded skies'-so its wearel
might enter. swathed and draped in
clinging folds of pale blue-gray India
silk, wrapped round her in shawl
fashion. Suddenly. with an upward
movement of the arm, she would
fling back the two long, soft, ample
scarfs, fastened in at the shoulders,
which compose the drapery, so that
they should fall like a straight mantle
behind to her feet, mingling with the
rest of the full back, which Is of the
same blue-gray silk, and revealing in
front the most gorgeous garment i'm
aginable-a rendering of Japanese
embroidery, flowers and clouds and
butterflies, wrought by a Partisan
artist, on a background of black satin,
in gold and silver and all manne of
lovely colors, pearl and azure and
amethyst, and cut at the throat so as
to show to the waist a glimpse OF the
soft whiteness of a blouse or shirt of
lisse, while from beneath bell sleeves
of the embroidered satin peep bishops
sleeves of the white lisse.
Another wonderful tea gown is
modelled on ancient German modes OF
the time of Macmillan, being made of
a thick repped silk in a rich shade,
something betwixt petunia and hello
trope. The whole of the back of the
full bodice is gagged, and a square col
lar of point lace is set into a Holbein
| yoke and braces of dark purple velvet
| embroidered silver, while the full
| sleeves are set into cuffs to match. 1t
is rich, original and artistic, this
gown, even if it miss something of the
fantastic grace of the Parisian-
Japanese model above described.
Tea gowns, which are now 10 SINH
lar to dinner gowns, are sometimes cut
with a high stiff color at the back of
the neck, and in a square in front.
The collar is composed of the material
of the gown, the sleeves are of some
thing different, and the trimming
round the high square is of rich passe-
menterie. If the sleeves are not long
and flowing they are full and trans
parent to the elbow, tied with ribbon.
Many gowns have the short lace or net
undersIeeves, as we'll as the long wing
ones. Others have the front and
elbow sleeves of finely crimped crepe
de Chine, or soft silk. drawn up to the
top of the armhole and pulled. An
ornaments is sometimes placed in the
centre, pressing down the material
and giving the appearance of two
divided puffs, one IN each side of the
ornament.
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soft falling silk. A lace lounce is ar
ranged as the front of some tea gowns
Mhile the same depth of lace trims the
elbow sleeves and falls in soft folds
and Is long as possible. The lace is
gathered up on the inside of the arm,
just at the bend, and the fullness is
concentrated at the elbow. Very mar
row velvet or ribbon is used on some
gowns, run in and out in several rows
at the throat, waist and sleeves, with
all the ends taken together and tied
into bows. Black velvets are the most
used.
One pretty tea gown recently seen
in a trOusseau), was in the palesJ blue
and white satin brocade, with the
front and sleeves Of pale pink crepe de
Chine, trimmed in the way described,
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The revers were turned back with pale
pink satin, edged with a row Of the
velvet, and there was a pointed waist
band to correspond, below the rows of
velvet run in and out, and combining
the fulness of the crepe de Chine. A
cluster of velvet loops finished off the
ends on the left side.
Some tea gowns are Of white satin,
trimmed with ostrich feathers; others
of velvet, open up one side to show an
underskirt of pale satin brocade, cut
in deep points, and backed by a
band of velvet. Others, more simple,
are made of cashmere, with a fancy
silk front, and trimmed with a thick
ruche OF silk, resembling feathers at a
distance. Pale gray or cream is often
trimmed with a dark green ruche. A
silver-gray soft silk gown, trimmed
| with ruching OF its own color and ma
terial, is a pretty and becoming gown
for mourning and quiet wear.-Lon-
don Queen.
January and May.
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