The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-09-08
THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT SUNDAY SEPTEMBER g. 1878

bright Scotch plaid colors. The reversible
shawls, different on each side, are very thick
and warm. Striped shawls have richly
shaded borders. The travelling shawls, long,
fine, and soft, are In clan tartans, and ore
most liked In combinations Of green and blue
| PERSIAN BROOADEs, ETC
Intricately blended Persian colors and de-
signs ore brought out in the new brocaded
silks for fall. The colors are very rich AND
dark for the back ground, and are brilliantly
lighted with pale tints of yellow, blue and
| rose. Grenat, whlus1 Is very dark garnet, Is
the tavorite color for the ground, and in al
most every. piece shown there are dots
shades OF blue; there is also great deal OF
bronze shading, of old gold and ofprnne color
These fabrics are to make stately dresses fot
dinner parties and for the house.
The black figured velvets ore very elegant
| for carriage costumes and for full-dress tot
lettes. They, are really brocades with the
figures raised In velvet pile. while the ground
work is satin. There are also colored brocad-
ed velvets oil OF one shade, and still others
have chine ground of beige, blue or old gold
while the raised figures are brown. blue OF
black.
For wedding dresses are white velvet bro
cades on satin grounds of the richest quail
| ties. The velvet flowers are Of deep messy
| pile and suggest white moss roses# For even
| ing dresses Is white satin brooaded with q
small figure in colors, such as pink roses,
cream-coored ostrich plumes, OF pale blue
palm leaves.
Silks for lower skirts Of brooadod costumes
have inch wide satin stripes Of self-color, or
else Of shaded tints to match the grounds OF
| the brocades.
| FOR MORNING WRAPPERS.
A novelty for morning wrappers is a very
| fine quality OF flannel. which Is called camers-
hair flannel, It is In the dark colors now
worn in stripes on white ground; the most
| ye~ffg ,4ysvt
bronze, gray, or black. For still hfs1dsomer
wrappers Is loosely twIled cashmere In
| stripes Of Persian colors and various Oriental
| designs. This Is 50 loosely woven that the
| the W ole fabric has the appearance OF en-
| broidery. There are also plain Indian cash
meres in designs for wrappers with borders
| of gay Scotch plaids., Prune. garnet, sap
phire, bottle green, and ashes-of-roses are the
colors OF plain cashmeres now being made up
as wrappers ut the furnishing houses.
THE TABTANs.
The plaids most largely imported for ladies'
short walking dresses are Of dark grave col
OrS. arranged In what merchants call fancy
plaids- meaning that they belong to no spe-
cal clan. These will probably BIO most popu-
lar here, but Parisiennes have caprice this
season for wearing the regular Scotch clan
tartans that Worth has been making all sum
mer for Exposition dresses. In these tartans
every lne bar, and color follows q design that
has been In use for generations and which is
never varied. The tartans that are most used
In Paris are the Forty-second, with Its combi-
nation Of blue and greeli, the Argyll plaid,
the gay Mackenzie tartan, with lines Of
red and yellow amid blue and green, the
Forbes, the Malcolm and the Macleod. In
the pieated waist and kilt skirts Of short
suits these plaids are disposed in most
effective ways; sometimes o certain bright
part Of each plaid Is brought out on top Of
each kilt pleat, or single broad square forms
the yoke, the cuffs or the pocket Of the dress.
The only trimmings are buttons and pipings.
Flat gilt buttons, the color Of the yellow
Etruscan gold, and engraved like pure gold
are used on plaid dresses. The belts are
wide--indeed, rather too wide to be becoming
to the figure-and are fastened by square gilt
buckles.
HINTS ABOUT FALL DRESSES
Tho merchants who have returned from
Paris are unanimous on one matter ut least
They all speak with enthusiasm OF the short
walking dress, and Of the graceful designs in
which 1t will be brought out this fall The
short skirt is by no means to be confined to
the pleatef kilt, which will be most used for
plaids; this skirt is heavy when made Of win
ter goods, and consequently many ladies will
use instead the round goretIaskirt, cut short
enough to clear the ground. For the waist
double-breasted coats will be worn, fastened
by from three to six buttons, and cut away at
the top and below the waist line to show vest
Of different materials. Dealers show various
materials that are designed especially for
vests, such as corduroys, quaint small-tigured
brocades, and Oriental stripes. For The house,
dress skirts will be longer and wider, with the
fullness forming paniers and boufTant effects.
Conservative ladies will be sorry to give up
the graceful princesse dresses. hence they will
be more abundantly trimmed with drapery i
the way of scarfs and aprons, to give them
an appearance of fullness. PoOnaises OF now
design are shown. and there are basques with
overszirts. and others with o single skirt
trimmed to simulate an overskirt. Two ma
terials will be used again in new combina-
tiOns, and the economical reader will be glad
to know that most Of the dresses Of last sea-
son can be remodeled easily and without
great expense.