The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-28

pale blue and white stripe, and then an
inch and half stripe of light fawn,
with zig-zag raised line of the same
shade covering it. twas all cotton, no
silk thread in it Mt all, and was ex-
tremely cool and inviting-loolking. Tho
Normandie plating is just like the fine
tucks in wool. 1t was originally
striped material, and every other one of
the stripes was taken up and tucked, SO
that all the tuclSs are one shade and the
ground between another.
Fine French organdics are always
pretty, and are not expensive-from
thirty to sixty-fve cents yard is their
cost Mousseline dc PInde is fine and
pretty, comes in all sorts of designs,
and only about thirty cents yard
1T can be had in dots and figures and in
stripes and flowers.
There is nothing particularly new in
challies, except in designs. The black
ground promises to be quite a favoritc
again this season. Last year it was
done to death, and grew positively
wearisome. 1t has SO many advantages
over the light ground, however, that
there will probably be as much of it
again this season. Bedford cords are to
NC iau III COIIOIl also, OuC Cnoy don't
look SO soft and pretty as in wool
But now that we've looked into the
matter of materials, let's make up our
minds about the cut of our new gowns.
think this one would be very pretty
for Normandie plating. The back is
cut la princess-the tuck in the ma
terial running up and down-and is
brought around on the hips in few
small folds over the front, tho front be-
ing laid on diagonally. This runs up
above the waist line, but is concealed
by tight fitting corsage that comes
over it, and which tapers to point at
the waist and buttons down the front.
The tuck here runs up and down again.
The sleeves run the same, except an
over puff, which is put on diagonallv,
and connected with the sleeve proper by
buttons. The collar is straight and
standing.
Here's pretty and light summer
costume: The waist is tight-ftting and
is cut in deep V in front Then the
is all filled in with fine lace, and at the
join of the lace and the material two
narrow velvet ribbon bands are laid. or
nainentcd at shoulders and front with
velvet rosettes. The sleeves are cut
open way down, too, and filed with
big lace puff, and here the velvet
RIBBON comes into play in exactly the
same way, and the rosctte adorns the
cuff. The skirt is drapcd just little,
caught up at the side by another ros-
cite. At the bottom of the skirt lie two
more bands of velvet, with roscttes at
either end About it lie two more, onlv
shorter, ornamented in the same fash
ion; and above this two more, shorter
still 1t is wonderfully effective.
like this one also; don't you? The
Skirt is long and plain, except that the
panels at the side are edged from top to
bottom with little ruffiing of crepe de
chine. This edges the bottom also,
starting from one panel and going
around the back to the other panel.
The waist is blouse of crepe de chino
and has an over-pelerine of the same
material as the dress, also edged with
the ruftiing. As the 1uttiing goes ND
the front of the pelcrine it widens
gradually and forms a high standing
collar at the back of the neck. The
pelerine reaches down to the waist at
the back, but in the front is only half
SO long. The fronts are fastened to the
blouse by big velvet buttons, and there
is button at the top of each panel on
the hip. The sleeves are of crepe de
chine, full, with tight cuffs
EVA A. SCHUBERT
Sex I'm Flowers