The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-10-26
PURPLE AND FINE LINEN.
Autumn Fashions for tt Fair Sex.

Autumn Fashions for tie Fair Sex.
[From Harper's Bazar.l
The Lady Washington basque, prin-
cesse apron, and fan train is an excellent
model of fashionable French costumes
of this season.
Breakfast sacques of bright colors are
worn again, after having been aban-
doned SO long for shawls. They are
made of cream white, cardinal red or
blue cloth, prettily embroidered, and
cost from 81 to 81.
Holblen green is quaint olive tint
used by Parisiennes in com bination with
light blue. It is newer than the cardi-
nal and blue combination now adopted
here. Gray trimmed with black that is
piped with cardinal remains one of the
favorite combinations of colors.
Figured goods are finally pleasing the
popular fancy. Instead of plain black
cashmere polonaises, those that are now
most worn are of basket-woven or other
square-fgured black wool goods, while
the small brocaded patterns are chosen
for rich silk and velvet overdresses.
The extreme French fashion is to have
the back of the overskirt almost as plain
as the front; but this has not yet become
fashionable here, and instead the slight
looping of the overskirt is placed very
low on the figure, while others are in
large perpendicular pleats that lie almost
fiat on the lower skirt.
Evening cloaks are large dolmans of
white embossed velvet, or of pale blue
or cream color, trimmed with feather
bands. Instead of these many ladies use
their carriage cloaks of black gros grain
with fur lining, or of gray camel's hair
richly embroidered, or braided and bor-
dered with feathers OF with fur.
Cardinal red is the favorite color for
Balmoral skirts this season. They are
made of felt, and are trimmed with two
wide knife-pleated frills, or else with
three or four narrower ones pinked on
each edge. They cost from So to 81
each. Still newer than these show the
navy blue and cardinal combinations
now in vogue. " .t.I
There are many polonaises without
drapery, but those look as plain as an
Ulster OF casaque, and the preference
here is for those that are sloped plain
for half yard or even more below the
waist, and then draped and folded in
shawl shape, or with Tapped ends caught
no to the plain part, on each side, or
pleated in double box pleat, with some
irregular looping still lower down.
The imported evening dresses are
very rich this season. They are COM
binations of two, three or even four
materials, all of one tint, and are then
trimmed with flowers and lace. The
trained skirts are usually of gros grain.
The corsages and draperies are of bro
caded silk, or embossed velvet, or Cham
berry gauze, and tine facings are of satin,
while the pleatings are of crepe isse or
of silk.
The fashionable modistes and the lead
ing furnishing houses have had. their
last openings for the season, at which
we're displayed the latest Partisan styles.
There are no great novelties to record,
as the, new dresses, though different
from those of last year, are of the same
type-ar evolved from them, indeed
and it is to be hoped the process of evo-
luton will go on until aperfect dress is
arrived at. %
There is an effort made by the dress
makers to combine the two lower skirts,
and this gives very much the effect of a
polonaise suit; but this fashion will be
confined to the elaborate dresses made
by modistes, as it is so complicated that
ladies fear to undertake them at home.
The long, separate overskirt, draped in
more fanciful fashions than formerly, is
still the popular upper-skirt with ladies
who make their own dresses.
The clinging princesse costumes worn
without crinoline are the marked feat
ures. The newest idea in these is that
of having the whole costume In one piece,
instead of in two, as with the polonaise
and skirt, or in three pieces, as with the
basque, overskirt ald lower-skirt. These
new dresses, of a single piece, have q
founce or other trimming added to what
seems to be a princesse polonaise, and
the COS tune is complete.
The long double breasted sacque suit
is good model for serviceable alpaca,
cashmere or silk dresses, while the warp
may be of the dress material, though it
is designed for the soft flexible cloths
now In market. Basket-wovenc cloths are
the first choice; after these come ermure
figures and wide diagonals. Black is
the favorite color; navy blue is also much
used; occasionally the lighter gray cloths
are made by this pattern. s.qt 0
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