The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13
FALL FASHIONS.

Autumn Styles In Bonnets and Costumes.
Jennie June's New York letter has the
following hints in 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
cd, at time when they are usually very
sparingly filed.
Women are very poor Thu season,
even the rich women they do nothing
but inquire how they can make over
their old clothesin "stylish" yet Sin
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 ma
terial bought cheap, because it is out OF
date, and the color not now in demand.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 n 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 tc
be critical.
The sudden enterprise which has beer
put into Clancy" feathers, is doubles.
due to the scarcity of ostrich plumes.
The newest hats have sugar-loa
crowns, and narrow brims, which are
bent close to the head. The brim il
bound with velvet, and is so covered
with feathers, and enormous pufls o.
silk, traversed by metal daggers ant
other sanguinary ornaments, that it ii
difficult to tell of what the hat wal
originally composed. 1t is quaint
affair, much affected by young ladies
and known as the STANLEY" Differing
from these are the English soft fin
ished felts; the "Vandykes, whose
high crowns are less stiff, and accompa
MED by somewhat broader, more flexible
brims. These are genuine Englisl
walking" and models for felt hat
generally.
Felt is intended for service, ant
should not be used for dress purpose
except by young girls who require onl.
one nice hat, and whose needs, will
their winter suits, are fully met by tn
charming pale cream, and masturtinn
tints, trimmed with the suit shades il
velvet, such seal brown, invisible
green, and navy blue.
The "Vandyke" hat is sometime
called the "Polo." The chief novelty
however, in hats for young ladies is tn
Beretta," made entirely of feathers
gray, white, blue, green, and tropica
tints or mixtures, that is, white an,
, gray, or gray with bronze band dow
. the center and another forming tn
brim.
Costume bonnets are made in squar
form, with soft crown, and narrow puffe'
brim, underlined with color, and over
lined with band of glossy feathers.
For winter fabrics soft wooden ma
} terials have now quite taken the plac
of all stiff mixed fabrics. Cashmer
has superseded alpaca and French pop
lin, and the armura cloths must ente
almost universally into the composition
of winter suits. For street wear tn
combination of cloth with velvet prom
Uses to be very fashionable. The velve
forming the skirt, pockets, cuffs ant
collar, the cloth the polonaise, or pc
lisse, to which is added for cold weathe
a double coachman's" cape.
Silk and velvet is always "wel
worn," but this winter these suits will
be trimmed with feathers more thar
with fur.
Buttons both small and large appea
in great variety. Many are simpl
molds covered with plain silk, others ar
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 a novel ide,
for ladies' underwear has been made b,
some American manufacturers, which
ought to become very popular. 1t il
called the Union suit, and consists
of vest and drawers woven in one well
shaped garment, which protects the en-
tire person and does away with tn,
double thickness caused by the overlap
| ming of the vest