The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-10-12
FALL FASHIONS.

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Jennie June's New York letter has the
following hints i'll regard to the latest |
fashions
The coming season does not promise
to be very gay one, though business
has revived, and the theaters are crowd
ed, at time when they are usually very
sparingly filed.
Women are very poor this season,
even the rich women they do nothing
but inquire how they can make over
their old clothesin "stylsh yet Gin
expensive " way. They look at the dark
tinted fabrics in the shop windows with
longing, and turn with loathing to
"make over" an old dress with a ma
terlal bought cheap, because it is out OF
date, and the color not now in demand.
If fowls could speak we should GER
tainly have remonstrance from them
in regard to the wholesale slaughter
which mnst have been perpetrated in
order to produce the new things in win
ter hats and bonnets.
The blue-green breasts of the pea-fowl
are in great demand, and even ordinary
barnyard fowls, for mounting as bands,
toques, crowns, and the like.
The heads and breasts OF sea. gulls are
used, but it must be confessed that the
majority of ''birds" are of mongrel
sort, and would not be recognized by
any student of natural history. 1t is
sufficient if they have bills and snowy
plumage the majority OF buyers are
not sufficiently versed in ornithology TO
be critical.
The sudden enterprise which has been
put into fancy" feathers, is doubtless
due to the scarcity of ostrich plumes.
The newest hats have sugar-loaf
crowns, and narrow brims, which are
bent close to the head. The brim is
bound with velvet, and IS SO covered
with feathers, and enormous puffs of
silk, traversed by metal daggers and
other sanguinary ornaments, that it is
difficult to tell of what the hat was
originally composed. 1t is a quaint
affair, much affected by young ladies,
and known as the "Stanley." Differing
from these are the English "soft y fin
ished felts the Vandykes," whose
| high crowns are less stiff. and accompa-
MED by somewhat broader, more flexible
brlms. These are genuine English
walking" and models for felt hats
generally.
Felt is intended for service, and
should not be used for dress purposes
except by young girls who require only
one nice hat, and whose needs, with
their winter suits, are fully met by the
charming pale cream, and masturtinna
tints, trimmed with the suit shades in
velvet, such seal brown, invisible
green, and navy blue.
The ''Vandyke" hat is sometimes
called the " Polo" The chief novelty,
however, in hats for young ladies is the
'' Beretta," made entirely of feathers,
gray, white, blue, green, and tropical
tints or mixtures, that is, white and
gray, or gray with q bronze bano down
the center and another forming the
brirn.
Costume bonnets are made In square
form, with soft crown, and narrow pulled
brim, underlined with color, and over
lined with band of glossy feathers.
For winter fabrics soft wooden ma
terials have now quite taken the place
| of all stiff mixed fabrics. Cashmere
has superseded alpaca and French pop
! lin, and the armura cloths must enter
almost universally into the composition
of winter suits. For street wear the
combination of cloth with velvet prom
Uses to be very fashionable. The velvet
forming the skirt, pockets, cuffs and
collar, the cloth the polonaise, or Pc
lsse, to which is added for cold weather
double coachman's" cape.
Silk and velvet is always "well
worn," but this winter these suits will
be trimmed with feathers more than
with fur.
Buttons both small and large appear
in great variety. Many are simple
molds covered with plain silk, others are
crocheted, but the newer styles are COM
posed of what is called the vegetable
ivory, shaded in dark colors, pearl in
laid or shell. Smoked pearl are still
much used, but these are not new.
A useful adaptation of novel idea
for ladies' underwear has been made by
some American manufacturers, which
ought to become very popular. It is
called the &c Union suit, and consists
of vest and drawers woven in one we'll
shaped garment, which protects the en-
tire person and does away with the
double thickness caused by the overlap
ping of the vest.