Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-31

the new materials that are being i'm
ported, sold. cut into pieces and sewed
up into all sorts of garments The chief
of all these things is velvet. Velvet for
coats. cloaks. mantles, dresses. waists
and blouses. Velvet requires jet and
lace trimming. Some of the trimming
on some of the handsomest of the velvet
Louis XVI coats has a liberal admix-
ture of steel beads in with the jet. A
few have gilt beads. and also others of
copper, but while they are striking
they have not the elegance of the steel.
Some of the passementerie is all steel.
with faceted beads of different sizes
Very many of the waists are in vest
form with a complete stomacher of the
beading. The jackets SO far are rather
in the style of the Louis before men
toned. with skirts lined with rich.
white satin and with the dainty EN-
broidered vest The shoulders are cut
much deeper than they We're, and the
sleeves TO these jackets are tight, though
easy fitting. The cuffs turn up and are
richly trimmed to match.
The most stylish combination of waist
and skirt for summer is 10 have black
skirt and white waist, or black waist
and white skirt. The white waists are
of all sorts of stuff, from linon to silk,
and including swisses. tucked, dotted,
lace trimmed or shirred. There is posi-
lively no end to the variety. One odd
new waist was of coin dotted swiss over
white taffeta, the whole tight fitting.
The swiss neck was cut out, leaving
the white silk in small pompadour
square.
At the bust line were two revers of
black lace over white silk with mar
row ruffie Of black and white lace.
Around the square neck was band Of
narrow black velvet, and there was a
stock of the same. The elbow sleeves
had deep frills of black and white lace.
There was an elastic beaded belt with
fancy jet and steel buckle. This bod
ice was worn with rich black satin
skirt
a novelty in the way of trimming
has the suit made of white pique with
blue duck straps and double tabs cross
ing the straps at intervals. Four of
these bias straps are stitched around
the bottom of the entire skirt, and the
double pointed tabs are set upright at
half yard distances all around. This
suit had an Eton jacket, trimmed in
the same general way. 1t was worn
with white jaconet shirt waist, with
a linen collar and wide teck tie. An
other design had large, struggling
pattern of blue duck cut out and sewed
ON, representing ribbon blown by the
wind and tied into bow knots This
was put on to simulate tunic
Somehow we do not see. as many
tunics as it was expected there would
be. They came, the women saw them,
tried them a little as novelties and
then decided they didn't want them.
They went where the Dewey founce
retired to, and that is-no man knoweth |
where
1t is the trifies that cost most after
all, for there must be such constant |
succession of them. The illustration |
will show the newest and most stylish.
The ceuter one is of black lace over pale |
tinted lisse. That beside it is of a width
Of liberty silk and is ruffied at the bot
tom and shirred at intervals 1t is long
and TO be worn as a fichu. One bow
knot is of spangles sewed to net, to be
applied to trim with in any desired
way. The other is jet beads sewed upon
black net and is for trimming skirts and
waists of thin stuff For skirts the-de-
sign is enlarged. The others are rsgula-
ton stocks. OLIVE HARPER