Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-09-26
FALL FASHIONS.
New styles In silks-FashiOnable Col
Ors-Evening Dresses and Suits:

New Styles In Stlks-FashiOnabie Col
ars-Evening Dresses and Suits:
From the New York Post. Sept. l6.
There is a prospect of a brisk fall
erade, and new styles in materials
are brought out weekly, and eagerr
ly sought after. The prices of ma
terials are a trifle less thar those of
last year, and the sales so far have
been much heavier. This is probas
bly, not owing TO the decline in
prices, but TO a greater demand, and
the dry goods dealers are confident
of increased activity in tho trade.
SILKS.
Brocaded silks are coming into
fashion, and elegant patterns have
been imported this season. A black
ground, with variegated flowers in
green, pink, orange, purple, and
golden brown, is very attractive,
each tint being beautifully shaded.
The most beautiful of these styles
has a delicate lilac ground, with
clusters of richly-tinted flowers
scattered here and there upon the
surface. These flowers are all ems
broidered by hand, displaying arts
tic skill in the design and blending
of colors, equaling in beauty and
richness the natural flowers they
represent. This pattern can be
| purchased for three hundred dol
lars, and trimmed with rich lace
will make an elegant evening toilet.
There is a new style in garnet~
colored silk which will be in vogue
for dinner dresses. 1t is q rich
dark tint. Each width has velvet
a shade darker than the silk, and
about five inches wide, woven into
the silk, with fringe an inch wide,
the same shade as the silk on the
lower edge; the upper is finished by
two rows of narrow fringe, with a
narrow strip of velvet between.
This is for trimming the skirt, and
strips not so wide are used for the
cOrssge.
Silks, with satin stripes Of con-
trasting color, as black with blue
or green satin stripe, and sprays OF
flowers embroidered upon these
bright colors, are among the new
styles, and will be fashionable, par
? iicularly lighter shades, in grounds
and stripes, for evening wear.
These flowers are also embroidered
by hand. Ribbon, more than one
fourth of a yard wide, in narrow
satin stripes, is used for sashes,
matching these silks in color and
shade.
For walking suits there is new
style of silk, in stripes running
across, for the underskirt-price
forty dollars pattern. OVerskirt
and corsage of plain silk.
A wide black stripe, with narr
row brown one, On which deli
cate flower is wrought, is among The
new styles. Changeable grounds
with small set figure in contrast
ing colors, are to be in vogue.
In rich silks the most fashiona
BILE colors will be a rich garnet
the new shade-green and sultane
very rich color. Other fashiona
BILE colors, which will be mucI
worn, in rich material at eight dol
lars per yard, are peche, pin
shade of peach, and new color
peacock, a blue shade so peculia
that it cannot be worn in gaslight
scaribuse, Eugene, marine, cors
in all shades, cerreus, saroleine, i'm
peratrice, cendre de rose (ashes {
roses) and absinthe.
Among the cheaper silks for suit
some OF which can be purchase
for two dollars per yard, is sati
levantine, in different shades, an
silk serges. Stripes, running VI
right, will still be worn for the III
derskirt, the Overskirt being plail
Scotch plaids in silk will be fasi
ionable for suits, tho colors gay b
the plaid not large, and trimme
with velvet, Will be stylish.
Black silks are itch and elegaI
varying in price from two and
half per yard to twenty dollar
the Antwerp, which will was
taking the lead. The most fashio
4 able suit for fall wear will he ma
Nof black silk ...