A NEW SPRING DRESS.
The trotteuse is a new French dress which is very popular this spring. It is made short, clearing the ground by two or three inches. It is a very convenient and trimlooking costume, and at the same time necessitates a perfect walking boot. A stylish mode of making a trotteuse is with a round kilted shirt of plum-colored satin, with a tunic drapery of striped velvet, edged with satin plaitings. Over this is a basque bodice of the striped velvet, which is trimmed with stirrings and plaitings of the satin. Under the point of the basque in front is placed a velvet tablier edged with satin plaitings, which reaches down the front to the foot of the skirt. Another costume of this style is made of peacock blue satin de Lyon over a petticoat of plain blue velvet. Around the bottom of the skirt is a plaited frill of the satin. The upper skirt is slightly draped at the back, opened in front, and edged round with a passementerie trimming of steel and sapphire blue beads. The open bodice is filled with a satin plastron gathered very finely from the throat about siz inches down, then left loose for about the same space, and again gathered to the waist, from whence it tapers to a point, and [finishes by a bow and ends of satin ribnobs.
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2289, 3 August 1881, Page 4
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230A NEW SPRING DRESS. Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2289, 3 August 1881, Page 4
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