The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-10-20
Hh0t Worth Says the Women srhs HGs't
10 shine Must Wear this FaI

anu IL also
with blue and other ink shades CssA-ss@-
to plum, myrtle green, pIacx aru--l -lrk-
blue, and gray. For dress occasions,
light fresco tints, ecru, pearl, linden
greenrose and blue follow in their sew
eral depths of shades. Long streamers
of wide gros grain ribbon are used again
at the back. Black velvet bOnnets and
hats are frightened by gorgeous tropical
bird. Crowns made Of the feathers OF the
brilliant East India corou-corou, the
surplered tanager and blue lopodore,
made into breasts, clowns, hearts and
buckles, wreathes of peacocks cream
colored and darkgreen cocks plumes,
and the long, sweeping Mercutio ostrich
plume floating over the back OF the
crown. Bronze and other mongrel tints
are revived again, to be intermixed with
true colors. Autumn leaves are made
into long chaplets Of satin and velvet In
dusky gray, scarlet and brown, with
woody twigs tinged with decay, and
there are pansies of immense size
and beauty clustered with silk and
satin roses. The picturesque Devon
shire hats are largely imported in felt
and fur beaver for winter, and will be
worn through the autumn, faced and
trimmed with feathers and velvet; a
bird. buckle of steel, or feathers cOnsti-
tutes the trimmings. Many new and
eccentric fashions have been introduced
lately, not only in styles, but in odd
combinations of colors. There are vio-
lent contrasts, some of which offend the
artistic eye; and others are so picturesque
that one becomes gradually reconciled to
the loss of pale tints, in the return of the
bright aniline colors, vivid red, green,
decided plum and prune and blue. Just
now there is a mania for a red which is
neither crimson nor scarlet, simply car
dinal red, first adopted from the cardi-
nails berette; yet whatever its origin,
Worth and Pergot and Partisan milli-
ners approve, and 50 it will last until it
becomes too common. Mixtures are the
law. Strawberry and vanilla ices are
one comparison another a parti colored
Brazilian parrot. A fashionable contrast
| in o--------,ne is a eream-eolored yergipr .
saEOR CHILL eSnss fs.sss = - -
of tliishIgt5.s, color TIE skirt, butte. pa
other trimmings of the polonaise red.
Sphinx color. blue of peculiar or in
describable shade, sometimes called ink
blue, was united TO red. The strong con-
trasts offend critical tastes, and it is to
be hoped that the passion for high colors,
probably derived from another mania for
Indian and Persian manufactures, may
result lin introducing into drapery the
rich oriental tints of blues with creamy
cast, crimsons which fade into warm
browns, and the soft yelIowish grays
50 loved by the people of the east. Green
is the leading color, called either Lincoln
green, hunters green, Robin Hood green
or myrtle green. 1t appears in several
shades as delicately marked as the rythm
so necessary to musical expression, or
mosaic and painting are nearer akin than
poetry. Yet a rather picturesque COS
tune is formed of an ink blue long mar
row polonaise, from which the edge of a
red skirt just peeps forth. The ink-blue
buttons are embroidered with a red star,
and the other accessories of the toilet are
also red. A costume was made of mag
nificent damask silk in the colors and pat
terms of brown and amber oak leaves.
There was an enormous square
pocket, and the side basques
fell long and square, of the pep
lum shape. The immense train had
facings of brown gros grain, and
the Innings of the trimmings generally
were pearl color. A wide chenille fringe
trimmed the pockets, cuffs and other
edges. This was Mary Stuart princess
dress. Worth sends tribute to patri
otto American ladies in supurb centen-
NAL costume. The cost of heavy black
matellasse was edged with knife plait-
ings Of red silk, and these were overlaid
by new-fashioned rich black chenille
lace. The long train and black breadths
of red silk were covered with black
knife -plaitings. The cunning little
pocket on the long waistcoat front and
the black pocket flaps were ornamented
with large embroidered buttons. very
elaborate costume of embossed seal
brown velvet and gros grain had
basque back and princess front. The
side breadths had two styles of perpen-
dicular trimming of one length of rows
of anticipating and rows of wide che
mile fringe; the enormous train and
edge of the skirt was trimmed with
knife-p -plaitings and fringe of silk chenille
loosely arranged scarf folds passed
around the neck and fastened with large
bow at the right side, low on the waist
| New fabrics come from France, and ole
friends reappear with improved faces
| and new names Faconne de Bagdad
Damasse de Lyons, Crepe Arabesque
jacquard Gree. Draperie Pekin, Plqu'
de Lyons, Sole d. Arabesque, Cashmere
pointelle, and many Others, including
the magnificent Indian cashmere pat
terms. There is great improvement IL
the matelasses and damasses, as well a
in Others of the rayed or hsir-llne'
striped fabrics. In the former, nothing
in the way of dry goods can exceed tn
graceful beauty OF the design; the favor
ite palm ferns, vines, trefoil; araoesques
the Greek convolute, interced chains AM
rings, foriated figure, morresque, noat
ing pendants of eonyo vulus flowers ant
medieval figure. In the wool ana I'M
fabrics, the wool ground Is mosti
woven in fine twills and diagonais 9
some dark ground. Lincoln green Is
speciality, less of wine, ink-blue, ink
gray, seal-brown, plum; and the nt
ures are formed by fine silk tnreao