The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-07-08
COTTON DRESSES.
rhey Are Very Neat and Becoming This
Season.

Season.
The cotton dresses are among the
orettlest of the season, whether elab-
)rate like those mentioned last week,
)r else so simply made that the family
fresh and neat. The ''housemaid' waist
gathered to belt. with enormous
sleeves, and a bell skirt gathered-not
iarted-at the top, is the design for
pink, lilac, or blue Cham berys, batistes,
Or lawns that young women, and mat
rons as well, will wear on summer
mornings at home in town or in country
houses. A Sw ISIS belt of open embroid
cry, with turned-over collar and deep
cuffs to match are on lilac Chambery
iress, while one of China blue lawn has
black satin ribbon for wide Directoire
belt, and around the much befril led
neck and wrists
Scotch ginghams come in quarter
inch stripes of low ely contrasting colors
stem green, lilac, and white together:
Or yellow, mauve and white: rose pink
with leaf green and soft cream tint;
Or pale blue with yellow and clear
white. TO make these with little
trimming, the belted waist can have
four tucks, each an inch wide, stitched
down the front quite far apart, one on
each side, beginning at the neck, and
that beyond in the shoulder seam.
lnch-wide scalloped nainsooS embroid-
cry is set parallel with these tucl<s. the
plain nainsook being sewed under the
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show in four leng thwise rows. A hem
holds buttonholes, and buttons down
the middle for closing. The back has
four lengthwise meeting plaits, each an
inch wide. Both front and back are
gathered to a belt, and the waist is I'M
lined. The turned-over collar is edged
with embroidery. Very large sleeves
have embroidered cuffs The skirt is
bias throughout and sloped at the back
in bell shape, with darts fitting it over
the hips; it is then scwed to belt. and
over this is worn belt of bingham,
straight, and three inches wide. stiffly
interlined and Tapped to point on the
left side.
More fanciful gingham dresses have
an Eton jacket, with elbow sleeves
trimmed with fife of white Irish
guipure, and bell skirt. The jacket
is worn over white nainsook waist
gathered to a shallow square yoke of
guipure insertion in two rows, with the
scalloped edges upturned and gathered
by baby-ribbon. The front is in three
large box plaits, and hangs low to turn
up underneath as blouse, while the
back is finely tucked just below the
yoke, then shirred in three rows at the
waist line, and feather stitched along
each row of stirring. A short frill falls
below the skirt-top in the back. A
rosette of the narrow ribbon is set on
the stirring of the back, another at
the throat, and one on each of the
guipure cuffs of the large sleeves The
Elton jacket, in only four pieces, has
seam down the middle of the back. and
the stripes of gingham are made to
meet in upturned points. The guipure
lace is gathered in graduated revers up
the front of the jacket, then falls in
deep point back of the neck, and is two
inches wide on the lower edge. The
sleeves are one large puff to the elbow,
with a lace frill falling below. When
made of striped gingham, the skirt is of
four breadths, gored to meet in points,
widely hemmcd, and mounted on a
white cambria foundation skirt that is
deeply faced with bingham.
Cotton Bedford cords are now slightly
crinkled, and are as effective as fine
wool crepons, and much cooler. They
come in the fashionable pink, pale
Sevres blue, gray. and lilac shades. and
are made up with jacket bodiccs. or
with a round waist and wide corselet of
black MORE ribbon. This corselet may
cross the front only-while the back is
in coat shape-and is widest on the left
side, where it is oramented with a long
upright bow. An inch-wide black rib
bon band tied at intervals in bow-knots
edges the bell skirt and is set around
the top of the high collar. Elton jacket
and blazer suits of Bedford cord are
popular in white striped with blue
black, or brown. to wear with white or
colored shirt waists of Cheviot, percale,
Madras, or of washing silk. -llarpers
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