Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-03
FASHIONS.
New York and Paris Styles
WHAT WILLIE WORN THE FALL
Jenny June ON tue PanIer and
Greeian Eend.
From DC CInclnnatl commerclsl.l

| From the Cincinnati Commercially
White dresses, whether for day ol
evening wear, were never more fashion.
able than now. Some very pretty new
suits ordered for early fall visiting al
country houses, are made of white mo-
| hair, with cuffs, epaulettes and reeers OF
cOlored satin. A flat ruffis cut on the
cross, and bound with the color, finishe:
| the bottom of the skirt. Accompanying
! these were some very handsome dresses
| in narrow striped, checked and change
| able silk, which could be worn upon al
most any occasion.
| The dresses were short, and divided at
| the back into immense lengthwise puff
/ fngs, which spread out, fan-shaped, to-
ward the bottom, over pettieoats made
| in silk of the contrasting color, and trim
ped with fiat ruches, three narrow frills
"a one wide one. The front breadtns are
perfectly plain, the bodies high and
trimmed square and low; the sleeves
long, and ornamented with three straight
puffs, Tuches or frills, matching the color
and style of the petticOat.
These dresses are very stylish in effect,
but only suitable for somewhat tall and
slender women, the petticoats and pGTliers
reducing in appearance the hight of the
figure.
Short dresses of any kind, il must be
remembered, are no longer to reach to
the top Of gaiter boots, but sufficiently
long to just " clear the ground" This
was the length of the petiicOsts belong
ing to the dresses we have Just described.
Shot or chaDgeable silks will be very
fashionable for fall wear, and are richly
trimmed with fringe made in the two
prominent coiors of the silk, headed With
a braid or twisted piping made OF satin
in the same cOfOrs. In dark rich shades
chameleon silks harmonic admirably
with the tints of an India shawl for Wis
iting toilette. The bonnet to wear with
it is a small high chapeau of italian
straw, trimmed with velvet, black lace,
and plume of short curled ostrich feath-
ers in the two colOrs.
This remind me that feathers, also, are
to be revived this season, the graceful
willow feathers, and the long curled os-
trich plumes, the most distinguished of
all ornaments.
There is q strong, perhaps it would be
too much TO say determined, effort in
progress to abolish the small bOnnets
and introduce large ones, but at present
it does not seem likely to succeed. The
chignons are larger than ever, and the
latest styles Of bonnets very small and
worn very high.
The fullness given to the dress bshind
cOmpels the adoption of somewhat
larger hoOped skirt than has been worn
for some time past, but they can never
reach the exaggerated dimensions again
that have made them ridiculous in times
past. Within two years they have been
worn in all sizes, from one yard and
three-quarters at the base to three yards
and half round, and, no recognized
standard having obtained, the demand
has varied with every floating rumor of
fashion and every whim of the moment, |
until dealers neither knew what to buy
nor ladies what to wear. The new styles |
issued for the present and the coming |
will, it is believed, remedy the |
difficulty. The golden mean seems to |
have been found at last, and the shspeis, |
as adjusted by the leading manufsctu- |
rers, that the front of the skirt remains |
dat, while a graceful sweep and ten |
1ency to expansion is given TO the back. |
The lowest authorized size for ordinary |
wear is two and q half yards round at /
the bsse This is very moderate, and
suited to walking dresses The next size
e JWU snIv5.quRrters round, and the
.hird three yards. This last is not too
srge for very tall lady for street wear.
Three sizes may be considered stand.
ard. A very short person, requiring a
It'll smaller and shorter hooped skirt
han the two and half yards, should in
Iuire for the largest misses size,
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