Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-03-30
POPULAR STYLES IN APRONS.
CoIored silk and Net Are the Fn-
yorite Materials just at
Present.


Colored silk, plain and brocaded,
white or black lace and darned net are
the favorite materials for the dainty
aprons worn by the young ladies who
preside at the afternoon tea tables. y
pretty apron, made to wear with a Grim
son gown, is of black net with velvet
bowknots. The rounded edge is
trimmed with an accordion-plaited
ruffie of net, edged with three rows of
the narrowest velvet ribbon. The belt
IS of wide velvet ribbon, tied in a bow,
with two long ends reaching a short
distance below the apron on one side.
Black and white lace aprons have the
center of black, with a strip of white
lace insertion on the bottom and sides
edged by frill of black lace. When
made in more than one piece the white
insertion is used to connect and outline
the cores. Some very dainty aprons in
both black and white are made of a sue
csssion of strips of insertion connected
by beading, through which are run coll
ored ribbons. Aprons made of silk,
white, black and colored, are slightly
gored, with front and side pieces. The
fullness at the top is shirred to form
pointed yoke. The three-cornered pOck-
et IS also shlrred ana trimmed with
rlbbop bows, the belt being OF wider
ribbon Inc bottoms OF these aprons
are trimmed with ruilies OF lace headed
by festoons and bows of ribbon.
There are two styles of aprons liked
py women VINO 90 fancy work Inc
hrst is mace OF some dafk coIoreo or
mack SILK having an lhch heIu all
around and pocket ten inches deep set
on just above the hem and reaching
across the entire apron. This pocket is
divided into three parts for holding the
different articles used in the work. Inc
hem and pocket are often finished by
rows of fancy stitching in silks of con"
trastlng colors. The belt and ties are
OF ribbon matching in color the silk Of
the material or the floss used in stitch
ing. The second style is made of linen
scrim or fine canvas, with meshes so
large that narrow, colored ribbon may
be pulled through. These are not gored
and the ribbons run straight down and
across in several rows. a large square
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bons is placed on the right side and
wider ribbons form the belt and ties.
White muslin, pique, dark-colored
and black silk and black brillianfne
are the materials preferred by school
girls. Not the little tots we are accus-
toned to see in aprons, but girls of the
boarding school age. These aprons arc
gored with either rounded or square
corners. Those of black silk are
trimmed with number of rows of mar
row satin or velvet ribbon in some
bright color. The velvet ribbons are
run on perfectly plain. but the satin is
either gathered or quilted. A pretty
and durable apron of smooth. black bril-
1iantine is made of three cores with a
rounded edge. The trimming is of
crimson braid shout three-ouarters of
nm inch wide nuiIIad in bov nIaits and
stitched down tba middIe THE one
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