Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-06-20
THE NEW DRESS FABRICS.
Novelties In Crepons-Scotch Cheviots Fc
Durability-Summer Dress Goods.


Novelties In Crepons-scotch Cheviots For
Durability-Summer Dress Goods.
The new crepons are more deeply
indented and rugged than those of
last season. Black has never ceased to
be fashionable in crepon, although the
weave is also greatly admired in colors
of which the most popular are the pale
gray and delicate tan shades and nu-
merous green tones that are faithful
copies of the tintS seen in budding
leaves. Feminine fancy remains faith
full to the fashion of associating skirts
and waists that contrast, and to this
fact is due in part the undiminished
popularity of black crepon, this mate
rial being we'll adapted to the demands
of the new skirts and being dressy enough
to accompany the daintiest silks, crepes
and chiffons, which are the fabrics most
frequently selected for waists.
For practical wear the Scotch chew
lots are unexcelled. Nearly all fash
ionable colors are displayed. AS
usual, the weave is irregular, but the
surfaces are smooth. Checks are very
fashionable, and they appear in a null
tiplicity of forms and colors, and al
ways in soft stuffs that will yield read
lily to any fancy of the modiste. Eng
lish mohair has been revived and is Of
fered in plain, striped and figured pat
terms, the figures being small geometric-
al devices There is new variety of
diagonal in which the colors are mixed,
and the goods will doubtless achieve
popularity. Equally attractive is silk
and wool mixture in Illuminated colors.
Another season of taffetas may be ex-
pected For the most part the patterns
in these goods will be produced i'll warp
printing, which is admirably adapted
| to the taffeta weave of silk. Plaid
| silks are we'll liked for fancy waists,
and curious blendings of tints are effect
ed in the plaids, which, in many in
stances, are formed of checks. Fancy
silk crepes displaying warp printing or
oriental color harm onies, and either
with or without MORE effects, are used
for bodices and also for entire gowns.
Charming are the new organdies.
They are light tinted, plain, striped,
dotted or lowered. Then there is dot
ted swiss bearing tiny raised pin points,
or fancy raised figures, and pretty flor
al figures besides, and there are glng-
hams and dimities in countless pretty
patterns and the most alluring colors.
Linen batistes and heavier linens are
conspicuously displayed, being produc-
ed i'll solid hues and in striped and fig.
ured designs. The array of cotton robes
is far handsomer than that of any for
mer season. Most of the robes are OF
batiste, and the embroidery has the eff
feet of lace.
Among the washable materials are
the zephyrs in stripes. checks and clan
plaids. Lappet silks are included among
the zephyrs and are not unlike the sill
ginghams SO much in vogue last sum
mer, but exceed them in beauty. Shep
herds checks, clan plaids and fancy
stripes are among the most satisfactory
designs, and charming color schemes
are produced in them. The Delineator
which gives the foregoing description
says that either simple or fanciful fash
ions may be developed i'll these lappe
silks, which, though classed among
washable goods, are really too dressy t.
be subjected to ordinary laundering
processes when soiled.