FASHIONS FOR AUGUST.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2652, 6 October 1882, Page 3

FASHIONS FOR AUGUST.

[“LePollett.”! j Travelling drosses ore carried to great perfection this season in respect to details. They should be simple and ion gout in style, beautifully made and fitted ; the draperies 11 should be few, and arranged not to crush o easily, and with regard to comfort in wear ; j and if of pattern materials, the colours should be soft and not too numerous. There are many checks and stripes suited for the “ purpose among the fine English woollens ; the I most attractive of these are in one or two t' dark shades, enlivened by narrow stripes q or small threads of brighter color. Green is certainly the prevailing colour of the moment; myrtle, Veroailles-Louis, moss- ■* green, for the darker shades; lighter greens £ are reserved for evening or fete wear. The following costume will give a good idea of the haut genre in travelling dresses. It is of 1 English woollen material, of very good quality, 11 dark green, in checks of medium size, in two shades, striped with a fine line of gold-colored ( silk. The skirt is pleated ; a short tablier, 8 out on the bias, is draped across the front and _ fastened at the back, under a pouf of * moderate size. The veste is double-breasted, £ and fastens with a double row of flat gold B buttons; it has a single large revers, « Direotoire,” of velvet pekin, striped green and black ; the collar, the wide cuffs, pocket, and small postilion barque, are of pekin, lined t and piped with gold-colored satin. There I are three buttons on the cuffs and the pocket, 0 and two above the basque. Handsome buttons are the grand luxe of dresses of this class, and as they will do for more than one eostume, they are not extravagant purchases, Tortoise-shell buttons, with crest or monogram in go'd 5 enamelled buttons, in the Mauresque or Florentine styles, are effective, and look- well on bottle green, Havane, or g prune dresses. They are large, and not put too close together. Wooden and horn buttons are also worn, and flat bright gold . buttons look well on checked, plaid, or striped materials ; small round gold buttons —“ grolots ” —with rough surface, are plentifully used on bodices, cuffs, and pockets, and serve to considerably brighten the costumes ; these, however, should be confined to youthfnl figures. B The jet mosaic buttons, with crests or monograms inlaid in jet on colored grounds, and a jst border, are very grand genre, and , thoroughly elegant. The ground may be of , almost any color, so there is no difficulty in r . assorting them to the dresses. On oloth and other plain materials with smooth surfaces braiding is plentifully used; fine braids , forming arabesques, the edge merely sewn so as to cause them to stand upright, like a cord. A large, but still narrow braid, sewn flat, sometimes follows the same _ lines, and gives greater importance to the design. The braiding should cover the chest and diminish towards the waist ; the sleeve has a rounded cuff, not too large, also braided. The corsage is fastened either by t . row of small passementerie buttons, or , by brandebourgs with cords crossing in the centre. Velvet and velveteen coats and oasaquins are sometimes trimmed with gold I braids ; these are narrow and sparingly used, and should only be employed when the coat accompanies a skirt of the same color. B ack and colored velvets are very fashionably worn - for jaqnettes, over a great variety of skirts of different materials and color. The skirts of such dresses are often made with four flounces , all round, the upper third of the skirt being enveloped in a large soarf, drawn rotlud and tied, or draped at the back. For indoor or carriage wear these jacquettes are open en 1 fosur, over a guimpo, and hsvo paniers n turned upwards and fastened at the _ pouf, raised short aud full in the , Louis XV. style. ; These corsages may also be E made of moire, or of narrow striped velvet; the latter is very fashionably worn over t skirts of fine woclleno, silks, and fancy mate- j rials. Bodices differing from th® skirts are , sometimes laced behind for evening wear; j they are then called “Spencers,” and can bo t worn over light skirts, cream or ecrus, of nan’s veiling, stamino or white muriin. Qrenat and “ Van Dyck ” red are favorite colors for wearing with white, cream, or ecru 1 skirts. Ecru is being very fashionably worn < again, and, combined with red, has been much - used for seaside and country dresses. Bodices - with the fronts and backs of the basques of . medium length, .the sides lengthening into long pans, are very well worn; a soarf drapery generally passes under the pans, showing at tho front and tying or draping at the back. The plain skirts with full trimming* at the edge are much liked, but they should only bs made in good materials of a certain firmness ; 1 in anything at ell inferior or “flimsy,” if we j may bo allowed tho expression, the effect is i very poor. Chenille and ball fringes are vary fashionably worn ; many quilles are covered with rows of chenille fringe, or are edged ' with hanging balls; others, also pendent, being scattered over the material, Stripes * areas fashionable as ever in all classes of materials, and, used in combination with plain fabrics, are moat effective. Scarf draperies of soft striped silks are much worn, and if well chosen, can accompany several different dresses. Plastron', revors, and cuffs of tho same stripe, edged with loce or balls of chenille, should be worn to match ; these also can be transferred from one toilette to another. Tbe silk batistes, broche gauzes and silk grenadines, thin as they are, have a certain firmness, aud form grao.-ful drapery. These ora always worn over silk ; tho top of the skirt at the back is puffed ; the front is covered to a certain height with ft quantity of narrow flounces, above this is a scarf of soft silk or moire, arranged a I’Bsolave, higher on one side than the other. The bodice has a basque skirt, short on the hips, with long points at the back and front, and is open at the oheot ever a plastron of silk gauged at the top and near the waist. Another form of plastron is flat, covered with bead embroidery of the color of ' the oilk. A band of the same surrounds the opening of the bodice and tho bottom of the ; sleeve, whatever length this may be. Thin , materials are also often made with the I bodices unlined, and not very closely. • Those are worn over fitting silk bodices, to ■which they are confined by a waistband. ■ “Point d’esprit ” tulle has returned to i fashion, end i* very light and elegant with i Surah or batiste. Tho skirt ia trimmed with fc bouffaiUs, or covered with narrow flounces, r arranged on a scanty wide one, and mounted 1 together. This method shows flounces to greater advantage than when placed on tho a nki»t itself. The bodice is of the same material as the skirt, gathered at tho shoulders and waiit. The paniora are of “point d’esprit" tulle; more or less bouffant on tho hips, o according to the figure of tho wearer ; draped ,e behind, and strengthened by two pan* falling [. to tbe trimming ftt the bottom of tbe dress, with a quantity of bows of ribbon en cascade 1 down one side of tbe pouf.