St. Landry democrat., 1892-01-02
W0MAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS,
TROUssEAU SUGGESTIONS.

TRoUssEAu SUGGESTIONS.
Brides dresses for evening wedding
| at home differ from those worn at church
weddings in the daytime in being cu
lower about the neck and having elbow
sleeves. A half-bigh corsage, witt
Marie Antoinette sleeves, is favorite
model for evening wedding dresses Of
the richest white satin. A notable mod.
el has the fronts of the half high cor
sage Tapped at the point, and draped
across the bust in full Greek folds that
support a bertha of the new Marquise
point-lace, with corded designs on fine
close meshes. The back of the bodice
has no middle seam, and is round at the
waist line, where a girdle of orange
blossoms crosses it and conceaIs the
joining of the train, then meets in front
and falls in two long sprays almost to the
foot. The sleeves are pulled to the
elbow, and finished there with very
deep tounce Of the lace caught on the
inner arm with orange blossoms. The
skirt (without foundation skirt has a
train ninety inches long, deeply faced
with satin, finished with double bala-
yeuse of lace, headed by pinked flounce
of satin; there are four breadths in the
train; a gored front breadth and a wide
gored breadth on each side complete the
skirt. A lace founce is arranged in
three deep festoons on the front and
sides, headed by vine of orange bios
SONS.
White dresses for the maid of honor
and bridemaids are preferred to colored
gowns for the evening weddings. The
richest silks are chosen for the gown of
the maid of honor, while bridemaids
wear chiffon OF net dresses. A white
Muscovite silk gown for the most
favored maid has low-necked pointed
corsage with silver-beaded bodice and
a chiffon bertha. Long transparent
sleeves are of chiffon, aud there are
slight chiffon paniers. The demi- trained
bell skirt has FIVE breadths of the silk
sloped away in the middle back seam to
only three breadths at the top-a good
detail for amateur dressmakers to re-
member. A group of four trademarks
wore white chiffon gathered over white
merveilleux bell skirts that were twelve
inches longer in back than in front.
The full chiffon is turned under at the |
foot as If doubled, and is punched up as
paniers above. The low pointed waist
has chiffon gathered very full around
the neck, and going into a pointed |
Swiss belt of white satin most effectively
wrought with white beads, lined with |
silver, and studded with large Rhine.
stones. A deep frill of doubled chiffon
falls around the neck and from the elbow
sleeves.
A gown for the brides mother is of
old-rose satin shot with gold, made
With bell train aud demi-polonalse of
much darker velvet. The neck is
'ounded low, and finished with rose
chiffon frill. Passementerie of pink pearl
md gold cabochons trims the polonaise.
The brides going away gown has
oat and bell skirt of brown corduroy
'elvet, with doe-colored cloth waist,
pointed back and front, and braided
With brown and gold soutache to outline
Zouave jacket and Swiss belt. The
oat-an outside garment to be worn on
BOARD steamer-falls nearly to the knee;
t is fitted in the back, and has loose
ronts rolled over to show a facing of
'eaver fur, which also forms the cellar.
brown felt toque with beaver colored
elvet completes the travelling suit.
A dinner gown for wearing at hotels
r other informal dinners during the we'd
ling journey has skirt of stone blue
'elvet trimmed with gold and green Leaf
going diagonally from the
aiddie and top of the front far to the
eft side at the foot. The waist is a new
Henri Deux brocade. with stiff set BIOS
oms of pale blue and green on a very
ght ground of cream colored satin shot
Nth the blue and green Of the flowers.
he brocade, in folds on the shoulders,
xtends under a high pointed velvet
irdle trimmed with rows of passe.
lenterie at the top, and a fold of the
elvet at the lower edge. The V-throated
eek is filled in with box-plaitirg of
be brocade, which stands high at the
ack, and is tapered narrowly in front.
'arge mutton leg sleeves of bro cade have
eep velvet cuffs.-Harper's Bssar.