The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-12
FOR WOMEN'S READING
HOUSEHOLD TOPICS AND THE EVER
CHANGING STYLES DISCUSSED.
Timely Hints in Regard to Pnpering
Rooms-The Secret of Perpetual
Charm-yarious Suggestions.

Crepons and glace iaffetas still take the
lead in materials for demi-dress occasions,
with an unlimited variety of wooden goods
in small checks, stripes and diagonals fol-
lowing in their train. says a fashion writer
in the New York Sum- Alpaca is coming
into favor again. and it appears in many
new varieties, with serges and whipcord
weaves, and in pretty shades of mauve,
gray, green, purple, and blue. Black ere
pons with colored figures are seen, and
among the latest novelties are chine silk
crepons, which resemble mourning crepe
They come in pale grounds with small
sprays of flowers scattered over them
Changeable taffetas finely striped and
striped taffeta with chine flowers showing
between are among the latest patterns
Others are plaided with a fine line of
black, on a light ground over the chine
Towering.
Black satins in great demand for
both day and evening gowns, and the skirts
are usually plain. If trimmed at all, ac-
cording to Felix. they must have narrow
lines of jet or bands of embroidery on the
seams. To make this sort of trimming eff
fective they must be cut umbrella shape,
with many cores, ana very full at the
bottom.
While the sleeves of the modern gown
are, perhaps, It's most conspicuous feature,
the bodice is the point where the trim
mings flourish, and the variety of models
with strikingly unusual combinations which
are brought out for inspection are simply
beyond enumeration Finely striped silks,
either colored or black and white, and ecru
linen batiste, both embroidered and plain,
are among the latest novelties for trim
ming. An example of this is on a gown
of brown gauffe crepon with a narrow
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made plain in the back, and slightly full in
front, has collar of black and white silk
made of a fve-inch strip with a selvage
edge, which is formed into square three
times giving it three points across the
back and fullness on the lower edge.
Above this is three-inch insertion or
ecru linen, with an applique embroidered
edge and open wheels through the middle.
turned squarely over the. shoulders ana
continues down the front on either side to
the belt.
fullness over colored ssf, is much newer ever
than the thin laces which have been used
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tiny open-work insertion set in between
the hem and the upper part, forms a cape
waist has sleeves like the. skirt.
The latest disposition of the persistent
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of lace or finely tucked muslin is shown
closely in at the waist, leaving very little,
if any, of the pouched effect in front. Very
useful and dressy waists are made of dotted
black net over changeable silks, with full
puffed sleeves. They striped up and
down at intervals and have puffs with
double ruffies of narrow cream white
Valenciennes, with tiny band of jet in the
middle. The collar may be of black satin
ribbon, like the belt, or of net the
colored silk with a little ruffle of the
cream edge standing up around the neck.
A wide box plat of black satin, thickly en-
broidered with jet beads and sequins, is
an effective trimming for the front of a
waist.
Sleeves are in great variety, but the NUT
ton-leg shape made very full at the top
and very close from the elbow down, and
the close sleeve with huge puff, are the
prevailing styles. A pretty sleeve OF black
mouSseline de sole is made by gathering
the material into six lengthwise tucks
about five inches wide with an inch and
a half between. These tucKs form nearly
all of the puff and stand out in pretty frlls
from the sleeve lining to which the
gathers are fastened. The lower part OF
the sleeve is draped slightly with the
muslin around the arm. Sleeves in many
of the thin dresses are made with three
puffs of graduated sizes, the largest one
at the top. The fullness is shirred several
times below the shoulder, and again be-
tween the top and the second puff, which
covers the elbow, and between the middle
and the smallest puff, below which falls a
deep frill of lace caught up short on the
inside of the arm.