The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-11-09
FALL FASHIONS.
What Worth Says the Won'em tohO Want
to Shine Must Wear this Fall.

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bonnets are different enough to suit the
most fastidiOus. From high to low soft
crown, severely rembranatish tOquaintly
quakerish, and charmingly coquettish
: The new pointed crowns are both absurd
and ugly, and so are nearly covered and
hidden by thickest of flowers and feath
ers. Very little face trimming is seen
owing to the closely fitting fronts. Fine
velvet and plush in corded stripes and
plain are used. Lincole, for hunters
green, ink blue, celeste blue, tete de negre
"A beautiful maroon shade-and Rus
sian gray are some of the leading cOlors
Green is lightened with ivory and a
creamy sulphurgreen, and is also mixed
with blue and other ink shades. Cardl-
nal offers the strongest possible contrast
to plum, myrtle green, black and ink
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 peacock's cream
colored and darkgreen cocks plumes,
and the long, sweeping Mercutio ostrich
plume floating over the back of the
crown. Bronze and other mOngrel tlnts
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 beel introduced
lately, not only in styles, but i'll odd
combinations of cOlors. There are viO-
lent contrasts, some of which offend the
artistic eye; and Othersare sOpicturesque
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 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 MILL
ners approve, and so it will last until it
becomes too common. Mixtures are the
law. Strawberry and vanilla ices are
one comparison another parti COlOred
Brazilian parrot. A fashionable contrast
in a costume is a Cream-colOred verging
upon yellow and red. The polOnaise is
of thchigher color, the skirt, buttons and
other trimmings of the polonaise red.
Sphinx color. blue of a peculiar or in
describabIe 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,
y,rOhohIv darived from another mania for
Indian and Persian manufactures, may
result lin introducing into drapery the
rich oriental tints of blues with a creamy
cast, crimsons which fade into warm
browns, and the soft yellOwish grays
so loved by tlle people of the east. Green
is the leading color, called either Lincoln
green, hunter green, Robin Hood green
or myrtle green. 1t appears in several
shades as delicately marked as the rythm
50 necessary to musical expression, or
mosaic and painting are nearer akin than
poetry. Yet 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,
aud the other accessories Of the toilet are
also red. A costume was made OF a mag
nificent damask silk in the cOlors and pat
terms of brown and amber oak leaves.
There was an enormous square
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