The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-03
CUIT-CHAT ON FASHION.

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| A little glimmer of Autumn prefer
ences begins to peep up side by side
with the purer shades ofsummer colors,
although weeks will pass, before fall
fashions come to anything definite.
Lightest muslins and white grena-
dimes are occasionally too cool for even
ings, and everything that is bright and
hued and Oriental comes to the rescue
Brilliant lines on white grounds, and
the richest grapes, hanging in wavy
folds are more than fashionable.
Every possible shade of pongee is
worn, from the cork color and almond
brown, to palest buff with dull shadow
resting upon it.
Some travelling dresses designed for
fall wear are made of the Panama, and
bamboo fibre, of heavy quality, quite
rough to look at, but soft to the hand
This material is in such demand that
enough of it lie not to be had at any
prices
There is a positive mania for all kinds
of ponsees, India foulards, grapes, man
iIlas and pineapple cloth.
Ladies who preserved their Canton
Grape shawls, which were in fashion
twenty years ago, are not sorry for their
prudence now. They are among the
most courted and stylish of light grapes;
they are no longer worn in the simply
folded triangle, however, but are cum
niDgly draped about the person in
manner requiring the skill of modesto.
Scarlet, black and white shawls are
the most fashionable, though we have
seen one of the shade called ecru, the
peculiar unbleached color, which was
most delicate and beautiful.
The latest sashes are of the purest,
softest India silk, which has wavy
look and an INDECENT grace peculiar to
itself These sashes are very wide and
long, and tie in immense falling loops
or single large knot Their colors are
not brilliant, and the designs are gen.
orally bars and squares.
Pineapple dresses are taking the places
of goods more easily affected by damp
weather.
Some small, square shawls, scarcely
more than handkerchefs, are wrought
in lace patterns about the edges and are
thrown carelessly over the shoulders.
They are more quaint than beautiful,
though lace embroidery upon the thread
of pineapple cloth is something new,
and of wonderful execution.
White dresses continue as popular as
ever, and for two months to come will
be as suitable as anything else.
When Victoria lawns and India mules
are too light for damp weather, cream
white challies and finest goats hair
trimmed with cross bars of the gayest
satins are among the handsome dresses.
1t is agreeable to see that machine
thread dresses, which are the rule now
a days, improve under the laundress'
hands. Every time they are done up
the stitch relaxes little, until they be-
come, if accurately made, as handsome
TO the eye as need be.
Scarlet, blue and almond-brown
jackets of finest flannel are worn as par
dessus garments at the edge of the
evening just now, when one needs a
slight addition to the dress of daytime.
The more brilliantly and deliberately |
they are embroidered the better.
White jackets, wrought with the gay
est colors, and scarlet ones with d net
work Of embroidery in Turkish designs,
are the most fashionable and most ex.
pensive.
Shoes, quite low, with high pointed |
heel piece, running off at the back of
the foot, and square piece everything
the instep, are now tolerated out of
doors at the seashore and country
place. They have large, fat bows of
kid, and square steel buckles shaping to
the foot.
In dress goods, light bodied mater
ial for the occasional cool days that we
may look for before long, resembles
poplin. 1t is a mixture of cotton and
wool nicely finished, and called fussore
des Pyrenees,
The dress is of a neutral shade, gray,
fawn, or almost brown, and along the
selvidge bright border runs, composed
of uneven stripes of gay colors. This
stripe is cut off and used for trimming,
which is put on huted, by leaving
small space between plaits TO CORE
spond. A pre- ty addition is Tom Thumb
fringe in colors to match.
Sutanas in the gayest colors-rose,
violet and green-are among the best
dresses of this season, in which, till fall
really comes, we look for little that is
new, although ornaments and adapta-
tons are always varying.
Delicate silks of this variety for
mourning are of black and gray; three,
five and seven finest lines of gray upon
a black ground, or rice rerSa, black upon
gray.
Long chains of coral, strung as baby
chains were won't to be, are fashionable,
as also short chatelaines of cut coral
with the watch hanging, accompanied
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