Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-10-26
MOURNING MATERIALS.
LIVING MODELS OF POVERTY AND WEALTH.
ELEGANT AND SUGGESTIVE GRAPE.
TRIMMED ToILETTES. HOW
HANDSOME SKIRTS ARE
FINISHED.

The broken hearted mourner, whose
dry-eyed grief makes her seem almost
cold and stoical, takes no heed of dress,
but buttons her threadbare coat over
her aching heart, and plods on her
weary way, regardless of her more for
tunate sister, who can afford to give
visible expression to her grief for the
loss of loved ones, forcibly and fash
ionably, by adopting the regulation
mourning garments created in certain
high-class materials, always jet black
IN hue, and of approved weave and tex
ture.
Most prominent of these mourning
fabrics stands the exquisite silk warp
Henrietta, an art fabric, perfect in
weave, and sublime in surface finish, or
it may be that the bereaved one may
like better the rich lustreless silk, or
the handsome drap d'Alma. or the ia
yorite Melrose cloth, as any one or all
of these materials are perfectly appro-
pirate for this purpose, snd can be ad-
vantageously and effectively combined
with Courtauld's English Grape, that
typical texture of sorrow, which is
universally accepted by foreign and
domestic authorities as the suitable
and healthful trimming and com bina-
nation material for mourning toiiettes
and for wells, indeed entire garments
! are made of this curious weave in silk,
but many ladies prefer other stuffs for
. foundation, or the dress, and use Grape
simply as combination, or for decors-
tive purposes.
The question els Grape entirely
| healthful," has been most satisfactorily
settled by noted chemists, who, after
careful analysis of the dyes used In its
coloring, declared them entirely pure,
and absolutely free from any ingredi-
ent that can possibly affect the health
Of, or prove injurious to the wearer.
This verdict is enthusiastically received
| by the world of women, who realizs
the fact that crape is decidedly the
most elegant exclusively mourning
material manufactured.
The society models of mourning.
toilettes furnished in Album Reve,
/ and in McDowe!l's Paris Album OF
Fashion and La Mode de Paris, are IL
Illustrative of the stylish methods of ap.
| plying Grape. In some costumes, GER
| tain parts. or component garments are
fashioned entirely IN Grape, in others
the Grape is sppiied as trim
| ming, In, or on all Grape,
is used either alone or in con
junction with dull jet passemepterie.
J galloon, or rolls or bands of black feath-
| ers
The skirt edges of the handsome
| dresses are finished with piping OF
Velntina, cut on the bias for this using,
and in many instances, where draper
les are adopted, they fall over an
under-skIrt or lining, faced quarter
of yard in depth with Velutina, which
comes in coal or jet black for mourn
ing purposes, as we'll as in blue black
for general using.
This material Velutlna, serves as an
excellent substitute for silk velvet,
which material it so greatly resem bles
in body, and in surface finish, but
while it looks like its costly cousin
| Lyons velvet, Velutina is far more en-
during in character, and holds mp its
dainty but sturdy pile, after severe
usage and pressure that would crush
and ruin the soft raised thread surface
of the fragile sIlken velvet.
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