WALKING DRESSES.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1746, 24 September 1879, Page 4

WALKING DRESSES.

1“ Milliner and Dressmaker.”J Those who wear cotton are to bo congratulated this season on having the prettiest goods to chooso from that have ever found their way into market with cotton as a basis. The manufacture of all goods of this description has been steadily improving for several years, and there is now little to chose between the wide, fine gingham, with its delicate check, and the summer silk, except that one requires only half as much as the other to make a dress, and costa just about half its price. , , . , The chintz salines with their close, aatmlike finish, and the somewhat coarser “mummy ” cloths, very badly named, are almost equally fair representatives of the chintz brocades, and raw silks at from four to ten times their price, and possess the additional advantage of being made fresh and good as new, by careful laundry work. All these styles are suited to the exceptional occasions of country life in summer, and take the place of the troublesome white muslin, the more expensive summer silk, ana the easily torn barege of the olden times. Naturally the light tinted grounds and delicate flower patterns of some of these goods render them unfit for church or everyday W lar of married or middle-aged ladies, but for toilets for garden parties, croquet parties, morning wear at watering-places, and the indoor wear of ladies in country houses, or country hotels, no'hing can be more appropriate, or more in harmony with nature in the summer dresses. No violent contrasts are required or permitted with chintz coloring in printed cottons. A plain solid color may be used for trimming in small quantities, but white needle-work ruffles, or lace, are considered much more desirable. , . There are few important changes in the designs of these suits. The polonaise is retained, and the long sacqus paletot, halffitting, is still used as the simplest form, with a round skirt. But the most popular Styles consist of a shorter paletot, or jacket, and two skirts, the second one draped ac_ cording to fancy, and more frequently turned upon the front, a la lavense, than in any other style. Linen and cambrics in solid colors, are very fashionably trimmed with a black and white stripe of different widths according to taste, the hair-stripe being the moat distinguished.