SUMMER DRESS MATERIALS.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8963, 29 November 1894, Page 2

SUMMER DRESS MATERIALS.

mo jJttlinoral suqwitake is a most original fabric, the ground, blue, brown, i pink, or any solid coloar, with a white ■ design upon it which looks exactly as if (he Miow had flu tiered down in flakes. Mnny of the new fancy tweeds ulipw chmtz colourings and plaits, and a great many of the more costly plaited clothe are Wended with a thread of silk. The Melange a sole is one of the many stuffs that are loosely plaited, and there are < many others which apparently have loose i thread*, on the surfnee. Some of the ; newest satin cloths Jacqaard figure*, and one of these patterns has a spider's web all over it. . , There *eems to be a preference for dark colours in apnng eondn, especially In the shot tweeds, iv which a* many as four shades are often introduced, such as gr«y, red, jtold, and fawn. The horizontal or bayadere stripes pi iye an important part, and many of them appear to have sarin de»ign upon t hern, thoughy-hpy are entirely ma-Je, in wnol,. and *omeu>f the pattern* re-emble antique »am pad leather. Silk figures, on woollens are always me»t effecilive,anda,'4ecided Couture ihii year. ' Kitlckerbockeif- r p tripes fbt .*. contrast ins? colour, rough add upending, flad their way-liifco the new Troaviita cloth in • fvid contraSre—pink «n green, blue on yellow. The tailor-made tweeds, 54 inches wide, In two colours, afe inimensply'lo demand for dresses and cloaks and Ray!ou de mell li, as its-name implies, a honeycomb cloth, in such mixtures a<> blu.e and;brown, 9 pinir and brown, pinte and Krcjf> The new feature in homespun ia the introdadtion of Ice wool in marbled effects, like coarse canvas. ' >