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  Title & Description # & Price
1887 Braided Cloth Gown w/Bell Skirt

36 Bust - 24 Waist

This gown was made of bluet-blue cloth with a vest of dark blue velvet and braiding in dark blue soutache.  The waist is a belted blouse, cut low on the velvet vest, with the fronts connected by a clasp.  Design for soutache braid included.

Yardage - 5-1/3 yds 54" wide & 1 yd of velvet

#1008

$15.50

1887 Cheviot Dress w/Braid Trimming

40 Bust - 27 Waist

This model was made of one material throughout, and is suitable for any of the new winter woolens either in a plain or in a checked fabric.  It is trimmed with braded ornaments composed of wool soutache edged with silk cord.  A plastron of braid is on the front and back of the waist, the collar is of braid, and scrolls trim the sleeves and the slashed sides of the polonaise.  Pattern consists of polonaise, skirt and foundation skirt.

Yardage - 7 3/4 yds 56" wide - DOES NOT INCLUDE FOUNDATION SKIRT

#1610

$35.25

                              

1610 - Deborah Olson              1610 - Alexandra Hroblak

 
1887 Checked Wool Costume

41 Bust - 27 Waist

The dress illustrated is made of wool that has a bronze ground finely checkered with écru lines.  A deep bronze velvet revers is on the overskirt, and the basque has revers, collar, cuffs, and pocket flaps of velvet.  Pattern consists of bodice, draperies, skirt and foundation skirt.

Yardage - Approx 8 3/4 Yds 48" wide (I do not know if this includes the extra drapery pieces and the foundation skirt.

#1617

$40.75

 

1617 - Erik Theiss

 
1887 Brown Plain & Plaid Wool Costume

38 Bust - 26 Waist

This costume has a basque of plain brown wool with skirts of plaid wool in which brown is the predominating color.  Pattern consists of basque, foundation skirt, skirt and overskirt.  This is a very large pattern.

Yardage -7-3/4 yds plaid 44" wide, 2-3/4 yds plain 44" wide, 5-1/2 yds 36" wide foundation skirt, 3-1/2 yds 44" wide for kilt pleated skirt.

#2467

$32.00

 

#2467 & 2478 - Christine Millar

 
1887 Dark Green Wool & Plush House Dress

38 Bust - 26 Waist

The model illustrated is a house dress of dark green wool and plush combined.  The skirt has a tablier and panels of plush.  The corsage is a demi-polonaise.

Yardage -6 yds wool 44" wide, 6 yds plush 23" wide, 5-1/2 yds 36" wide foundation skirt.

#2469

$18.75

1887 Dark Blue Camel's Hair House Dress

40 Bust - 26-1/2 Waist

The model illustrated is a house dress of dark blue camel's hair cloth trimmed with watered silk of the same tint.  The pleated skirt is completed by a sash of watered ribbon.

Yardage -9-1/4 yds 48" wide, 5-1/8 yds 44" wide pleated skirt

#2473

$32.50

1887 Brown Cloth & Plush Costume

40 Bust - 26-1/2 Waist

This costume consists of a basque and drapery of brown cloth over a brown plush skirt.  The basque is buttoned plainly down the middle of the front, forms two points at the lower edge and has the drapery attached on the back.

Yardage -6 yds cloth 52" wide, 5-1/4 yds of plush 24" wide, 5 -1/2 36" wide for foundation skirt

#2474

$38.50

1887 Dark Blue Ladies' Cloth Dress

41 Bust - 27 Waist

The model illustrated is a tailor dress of dark blue cloth, consisting of a box-pleated skirt completed by a simply draped overskirt and a basque.  Pattern consists of basque, foundation skirt, skirt and overskirt.

Yardage -10 yds 56" wide, 5-1/4 yds 36" wide for foundation skirt

#2478

$36.75

 

#2467 & 2478 - Christine Millar

 
1887 Figured Wool House Dress

38 Bust - 26 Waist

The dress illustrated is of figured grayish-blue wool with vest, collar and bows of red velvet.  It consists of a skirt and a polonaise with a flowing pleated front.

Yardage -9-1/4 yds 44" wide, 5-1/4 yds 36" wide for foundation skirt

#2480

$29.25

1887 Young Girl's Brown Cloth Dress

37 Bust - 25 Waist

This brown cloth dress has a narrow panel on the right side of the skirt trimmed with braided scrolls of heavy brown cord.  The short basque has a brown velvet vest and is festooned with gord.  Pattern consists of overskirt, foundation skirt, kilt-pleated skirt and basque.

Yardage -8-3/4 yds 44" wide, 5-1/2 yds 36" wide for foundation skirt, 3-1/2 yds 44" wide for kilt pleated skirt.

#2481

$30.25

1887 Jubilee Blue Cashmere Dress

36 Bust - 24 Waist

The dress illustrated is of Jubilee blue cashmere , trimmed with metallic braid and buttons.  It consists of a skirt with long drapery, foundation skirt and a postilion basque

.Yardage -9-1/4 yds 44" wide, foundation skirt 5-1/2 yds 36" wide

#2489

$37.00

 

#2489 - Overskirt Only - Chantal Filson

 
1887 Pistache Green Camel's Hair & Velvet Dress

36 Bust - 24 Waist

The model illustrated is of Pistache green camel's-hair, with velvet of the same tint for the deep triangular revers on the overskirt and for revers and cuffs on the basque.  Pattern consists of a basque, overskirt, foundation skirt and kilt-pleated skirt.

Yardage - 9 yds 44" wide wool, 2-3/4 yds of velvet, 5-1/2 yds 36" wide for foundation skirt

#2490

$36.25

1887 Red Striped & Plain Wool Dress

37 Bust - 25 Waist

The model illustrated is made of red striped mixed gray wool goods combined with plain gray cloth to match.  Pattern includes, bodice, foundaton skirt, overskirt and kilt-pleated skirt.

Yardage -10 yds striped wool 44" wide, 1-5/8 yds palin cloth 52" wide

#2494

$34.00

1887 Green Camel's-Hair Dress w/Passementerie

37 Bust - 25 Waist

Pistache green camel's-hair with cord passementerie underlaid with velvet of the same shade are the material for this costume.  Pattern includes bodice, foundation skirt, overskirt, and skirt.  (This is a very large pattern)

Yardage -bodice and overskirt 10 yds camel's-hair 44" wide, camel's-hair skirt 5-1/4 yds 45" wide, foundation skirt 5-1/3 yds 36" wide

#2496

$50.50

1887 Dark Blue Cashmere Wool Dress

40 Bust - 27 Waist

The dress illustrated is of dark blue cashmere, with a plastron and cuffs of mastic gray wool braided with dark blue soutche, and with a belt and reves on the cuffs of dark blue velvet.  Pattern consists of bodice, drapery, skirt and foundation skirt.  (This pattern is very large)

Yardage - 12-1/2 yds 42" wide

#2531

$40.75 

1887 Plain & Barred Crepeline Dress

40 Bust - 27 Waist

The model illustrated is a dress of plain red Crepeline combined with cross-barred Crepeline that has a cream ground and red bars.  Pattern consists of bodice, overskirt, foundation skirt and skirt.

Yardage - 8-3/4 yds barred wool 40" wide, 5-1/2 yds plain wool 40" wide

#2533

$37.25   

1887 Blue Figured & Plain Wool Costume

38 Bust - 25 Waist

In the costume illustrated the draped skirt is of white figured blue wool, with a pleating of white cashmere showing between the slits of the vandyked lower edge; and the basque is of plain blue cashmere to match the figured ground with the white and the figured material represented in the cront, collar and cuffs.  Pattern consists of bodice, overskirt, foundation skirt and skirt.

Yardage - 8-3/4 yds figured wool - 44" wide, 1-1/2 yds palin blue 44" wide, 1-1/2 yds of white 44" wide

#2536

$29.25

1887 Gray Street or Traveling Dress

38 Bust - 25 Waist

TThis street or traveling costume has a plain underskirt of striped gray wool, and a long straight upper skirt of plain gray wool of a lighter shade, open on one side and bordered with a braid band.  The short jacket, which is of the same material as the upper skirt, has a loos eopen cut-away front displaying a closed buttoned vest of darker gray velvet.

Yardage -12-3/4 yds striped 44" wide, 6 yds plain 44" wide and 3/4 yds velvet

#2540

$32.00

1887 Blue Plain & Barred Zephyr Wool Dress

42 Bust - 27 Waist

The dress illustrated is of plain blue wool combined with cross-barred white and blue wool.  The pleated skirt has one broad box pleat at the middle of the front and is kilt pleated the rest of the way.  Pattern consists of bodice, overskirt, skirt and foundation skirt.

Yardage -15 yds plain 36" wide, 4-1/2 yds barred 36" wide.

#2542

$27.50

1887 Grey & Blue Plaid Zephyr Dress

38 Bust - 25 Waist

The model illustrated is made of grayish blue Zephyr cross-barred with white and dark blue lines.  The skirt is pleated in wide kilt pleats.

Yardage - 19 yds 40" wide

#2548

$38.00

     

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