The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-06-25
TAILOR GOWNS FOR SPRING.
Fashionable Fabrics for Home and Out.
Door Wear.

Fashionable Fabrics for Home and Out
Door Wear.
Light tweeds and Cheviots in tobacco
brown and gray shades, with indistinct
crossbars and checks, are used for tailor
gowns for the demi-season. Homespuns
of rough surface in self-colors also re-
main in favor. More fanciful French
stuffs have raised cord-like designs of
diamonds and bars, the others have
flower and leaf patterns of one color
nearly covering the cream-white ground.
Checked tweed gowns for morning or
travelling are made with a deep coat
and plain skirt simply finished with
stitching. The coat has the usual darts
and side forms, with also hip seams
pointed in front, arched on the sides,
and sloped thence to meet the con-
tinuous middle forms of the back. The
fronts turn back in revers from mar
row vest of faced cloth fastened
by small horn buttons. The revers
are wide at the top-reaching al
most to the armholes-and graduate
to point at the waist line, where they
are trimmed with three buttons larger
than those on the vest. Wide pocket
flaps are set in the hip seams. The
sleeves are bias. They are full at the
top, and tapered to the wrist, to fasten
by two buttons with button-holes: two
rows of stitching are around the wrists,
and several rows further up outline a
cuff. The standing collar is covered in
front with faced cloth next the vest.
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It is cut of walking length, that is to
clear the ground all around, unless the
tailor is distinctly directed, as too often
happens, to lengthen the back to lie
four inches on the ground. The front
of the skirt hangs straight without
clinging closely, it is fitted smoothly
around the top by short darts; all the
fulness is gathered in the front in a
space of four or five inches. The hem
is finished by two rows of stitching.
The foundation skirt is widely faced
with tweed set on smoothly, without
plaitings that add to the weight.
Smarter gowns of French woolens.
Angora or homespun, have the coat
bodice more dressily finished with a
vest and revers of thickly repped silk,
such as the Muscovite silk, decorated
with cords of silver, steel, or gold in an
intricate braiding pattern. A kind of
ceinture of the silk is set in the hin
seams to give apparent length, and is
decorated in its pointed fronts with
corner designs of the cording. The
silk cuffs are in gauntlet shape, wider
than the sleeves. Such a gown is very
handsome in pearl-colored wool with
deeper blue-gray silk trimmed with
steel and oxidized silver cord.
A novelty this season is broadcloth
on which are printed designs of flowers
and leaves in natural colors, as tan,
gray, or cream grounds strewn with
forget-me-nots, violets, or other clusters
like those seen in challies and India
silks. This printed cloth is used for
house dresses, as tits too snowy for street
gowns. Iii usually combined with ben
galine or other repped silk. A Paris
gown for afternoons at home has bod
ice of light tan silk, with sleeves. and
skirt of printed cloth with tan ground.
The high bodice is smoothly fitted like
cuirass, and is laced behind 1t ex-
tends low over the hips in eleven square
tabs that are braided with gold in a
straight design like GALLON. A yoke
like pattern with tabled edges is
braided below the collar The cloth
sleeves are very full, with close silk
cuffs. The straight skirt fans outward
at the back in graceful French fashion.
House gowns for the spring, and even
for the summer, are being made in
Paris of light-colored faced cloths trim
med with founces of black lace, and a
girdle and collar Of jet.-Harper's Ba-
gar.