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LADIES' DRESSES.
A decided novelty in form' writes a correspondent, is reported for the satisfaction of those who feed our restless desires for change or improve- ment, however slight or accidentaL Last season the dress was manufac- tured in triple flounces, measuring 13 inches each in depth, and more re- cently double flounces of 20 inches have been preferred. Orders are now being executed for the approaching season, that the dress shall bear double flounces, each flounce distinct in its depth ; the upper being 28 inches and the lower 16 inches, the first hanging from the waist to be- low the knee and the second taking the rest of the fall.
There is also a special improvement in the manufacture of the dress. Usually it has been made from dyed yarns out of which the pattern is formed, or from gray and white yarns, on which the pattern has been afterwards printed either by machines or blocks. Now there is a process for printing the patterns on the warps before the weft is thrown across. The weft is added in dyed yarns, so that a combined effect of printed and woven colours is attained, for the printed colours being subdued by throwing across of the weft after the process of printing, the combination results in quite a new appearance or surface of material. A great de- mand is anticipated for this manufacture. We hear a rumour of a very marked but natural change in high cir- cles. According to this story, the hoop is to be invested in a sort of rich skirt worth showing, and the outer robe is to be drawn back in folds, as we see in pictures of the last century.
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