The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-03-01
EMBROIDERED DRESSES.
Pretty Gowns in Nainsoolt, Ecru BatIst
mud Chpmbery.

Pretty Gowns In Nainsook, Ecru Batiste
and Chambery.
Embroideries are always the first inn
portations of the new year, and though
shown in midwinter, are the trimmings
Tor summer dresses, or are parts of the
summer gown tself This year these
pretty gowns come in white nainsook,
in ecru batiste, or in Chambery-pink,
sage green or blue-with the embroidery
done in deep vandvke points, in bands
of rose garlands, or in feurs-de-lis or
polka dots. with broad hem at the
foot, hem-stitched, or else headed with
the popular adder-stitching, which is
also known as beading. The dress pat
tern has four and half yards of ''skirt-
ing" forty-Hve inches wide, tho width
serving for the length of the skirt, and
there are nine yards Of narrow trimming
for the bodice and sleeves. These sheer
nainsoolS gowns may be had in all white,
or else their white embroidery is done
on colored grounds, as vandylSes, or
double points or bands of pink, yellow,
or pale blue wrought all over with white
sprigs, fleurs-de-lis, or tiny dots above
the plain wide hem of the skirt, and in
narrow trimming bands. The all-white
dresses are of thin Swiss muslin and of
heavier cambria, as we'll as of nainsook,
some of their 'skirting" pieces having
three bands of rose garlands embroid-
cred above n hem-stitched hem (sold for
$1.50 a yard), while others, intended for
those who dress in mourning, have plain
double bands ladder-stitcbed at each
edge above wide hem, or open squares
wrought in rows around the skirt or
there are perpendicular rows of dots on
the hem at the foot.
Ecru batiste gowns have contrasting
colors introduced as grounds for en-
broidery, as red, pink, or blue bands, or
vandykes above the hem, or the seal
loped edge of the skirt wrought with
white or ecru figures. The embroidered
Chambery pattern dressed are in the
newest and most effective colors, as
reseda green win an ecru hem, and
much embroidery of black and ecru in
vandykes, doublo points, or bands; or
pale olus Chambery dress with ecru
vandykes of open-work around the skirt
above an ecru hem, and white dots all
over the blue; while pale rose or a
light poppy red Chambery has similar
points, dots, and hem all in ecru tints
These gowns have four and half yards
of the wide embroidered sl1irting, which
will also furnish enough for embroidered
sleeves; there are then ten yards of
plain Chambery for the foundation skirt
and belted waist, with some narrow en-
broidery for belt, girdle, or yoke, or
else for stripes down the front and back
of the bodice.
White embroidered muslins for MAX
ing waists, sleeves, or yokes of plain
white dresses are wroughtin in very simple
small designs, petit pois dots tiny sprigs,
trefoils and very small heurs-de-lis.
They also have embroidered stripes sep
arated by rows of Understanding. For
trimming these dresses are embroidered
vandylses, the sharp points wrought in
very open designs in several widths of
nainsook or on Swiss muslin. Trim
mings are also shown with tho edges
hemmed, with hem-stitching or ladder
stitching, and above these rows of gar
lands or leaves, or of the popular Bour-
bon lily. new heavy embroidery on
white muslin that would trim the richest
silks or velvets effectively has branching
hanging patterns of leaves and points,
with the edges finished by open loops,
through which this applique-work is
to be fastened to the fabric. -Harper's
RaZar