Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-25

vatican plait in the back. In front there
were about six inches of slack, gathered
down to a point at the belt. The shout
ders were cut low and finished with an
Isabella collar bertha, and beneath that
there was a gathered gimp of maize Japan
Grape. The sleeves were in two puffs and
one rufle of crepon, with a frill of the
Grape below. At the waist there was o
sash of one whole width Of Grape, n end
gracefully thrown over the other and both
ends gathered SO as to leave little frills.
This was really an exquisite tea gown.
If any lady wants to make a dainty
gown at small expense, she may develop
this idea in chambray and null or cotton
crepon. This is so very pretty this sea-
son that it really seems q shame to pay so
much more for the wool or mixed crepon.
Cotton crepon is not q cheap imitation'o of
finer goods. 1t is a fabric of itself and
looks quite us well as the more expensive
kinds, though there are one or two effects
In the silk and wool crepons that cannot
be obtained in any other. Still there is
enough choice among the others. Some
think 1t the best economy to have fewer
dresses and have them all Of the richest
and best material, and others think it bet
ter to have many dresses and lave the most
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advise. I can only say that it is more
trouble to keep many dresses in order than
few, and that the gowns of expensive ma
terial naturally receive better care than
cheap ones and therefore require less fix
ing. My own preference would be for the
few good ones.
A lady friend called on me today, and
she is very wealthy, so that there need be
no limit to her expense in the matter of
dress. She wore a gray cheviot that I had
seen her in for at least two seasons, but it
was of the very best quality. She has had
some heavy hercules braid sewed upon it
in zigzag pattern, the black standing out
IN very pleasing contrast to the soft gray.
She had a new coat made of black diago-
nal silk, very rich and heavy. This coat
was tight fitting and buttoned closely up
the front with silk buttons of medium
size. The sleeves were large gigots, and
the bertha reached tho waist in front like
bretelles. The sleeves INC the bertha had
three fine milliner's folds of black satin.
She told me later that her young daugh-
ter had trimmed her bonnet. 1t twas q pref
ty one, too, with pink azalias and black
velvet. So we see it is not always requir-
ed by law that we buy a new best dress
every season unless we want to, and I am
sure no lady could wish to look better
dressed than she does.
These silken coats have found consider
able favor with ''settled" ladies and also
In q measure with young ladies. They are
very rich, but unpretentious. The clever
little daughter who trims bonnets is about
10 years old. The mother dresses her in
much the same as she habits her
self-that is, in the matter of the quality
of her clothes rather thai the number of
gowns. We may see her now in a printed
surah gown, made into dress shape by
means Of shirring around the waist.
Around the neck and on the shoulders are
falls of point de gene, and the sleeves have
another fall. We all know how serviceable
and useful this lace is and how many
frocks it may see service On before it has
outlived it's usefulness. This pretty gown
was of chandron color, with cream white
figures. That and the lace made a har- |
mony in color that must help to educate
the little maiden in the niceties of dress.
In all the wardrobe of a child is there !
anything prettier than a clean white pima
fore? 1t somehow stamps a child as being
well cared for-well mothered, SO to speak
more than if one sees the child only in !.
her Sunday gown. I saw one apron recent
ly that I think every mother in the coun-