The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-01

POpLIh FOR ROYALTY,
The Queen. When a Princess.
Had Three Gowns from
Ireland.
IT DATES BACK TO 1896.
Beautiful Costumes Worn at Her Maissty,
Accession.
Modern Changes in the Material Favored BY N.
Ruler Of England

- HE liking for Irish poplfn din.
played by the queen on the oc.
casion OF her late visit to Ira
~ land is no now thing, So long ago
as 1886 the Princess Victoria" or
dered dresses from the same firm that sun
piled the queen a few weeks ago bright
violet poplin was one OF those chosen bv
the seventeen-year-oid princess About
the same time the princess and the Ouch
ess of Kent tesrned a pretty pattern es
wheat ears in bouquets, which was car
ried out to order in rose color and silver.
After the queens accession In iSSS soma
beautiful poplins were ordered by her for
ceremonial wear Among them were two
rose shamrock and thistle brocades One
was pure white and gold the other--oe
different design. the three emblems being
arranged still more efrectively-had tho
cnse carried out IL crimson. the thistle Il,
purple and the shamrock In green. all on
n white ground enriched by gold threads
The gold and cciors are now 81, bright az
those of her majestv's latest purchases
A change however. has taken place IN
the manufacture OF poplin in the last
twenty years. The development Of tho
colonies is answerabie for II. Australian
and New Zealand wool Of special quality
is used with the silk. instead of English
wool. which, though soft and elastic 10
the touch, hardens IN process OF manu-
faeture, and used to make the old poplin
unbecominely stiff. Tho colonial wool on
the other hand. wcaves fine and flexible.
and the poplin of today IL. IN consequence,
as graceful I'm Its folds as piece ~
French cashmere
Nothing more beautiful could he m-
agined than the stunts lately selected bv
the queen. The dress pieces, including
many lengths In each comprise beauti-
full gold brocade on white ground. the
design being royal fern and maidonhair;
an Invisible pink" hrocaded In single
shamrocks; n rich rose color. with con-
ventional eighteenth century leaf and
ribbon pattern: n pale heliotrope. plain
and thickiv ribbed, and rich enough 20
stand alone a black ia correspond; q
white. with hrocading OF white lilies;
thick and handsome cream: splendid
black watered poplin, and-prcttiest of all
"a ''gossamer poplin." light and dainty.
in pure white patterned with sInguiarlv
brilliant gold shamrocks. FIT for
queen" all of them, and yet the prices
are not correspnndinRly royal for mono
Of these magnificent fabrics costs more
than e.75 yard.
Al the genuine Irish poplin I'm tho mar
ket is turned out nv about hundred
Dublin looms-~handlooms nll as tho best
stun cannot be made bv powerlooma.
which snap and tear the delicate warn of
silk. II Is obvious. therefoxc. that much
OF the popiin sold ms such cannot be tho
real thing. for the Dublin output ia u
fixed quantity, limited by ihc length ~
time required 10 train the workers and
their clannishness In refusing Ga admit
outsiders
Genuine Dublin popln Is rich and hand
some. does not crease when folded Sharp
~ IN the hand and falls In fine, soft
graceful folds. II r. ustrous, looks al
silk. and fl certainly wears better than
II u were. being practically everlasting
and no, at all liable 20 cut. N ~ pre-em-
inentiy the rnatrons and dowHEerr ma
tertal In dresses. hat IA tho form Of tics.
saEhes and hat trimmings the girl ~ tho
period takes 70 u kindly One or two
smart people have 1nst discovered iis poH-
sihilities IN the coat and skirt line and.
indeed. nothing could be more desirable
than a bolsro aud skirt ~ useful black
ribbed poplin. IN the best quality. for tho
lower priced patterns spot with rain.
though they looked almost as well as tho
more expensive materials,