The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-09-25

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Grant, and would win where Grant
would fail.
| was locking at some of the new
fabrics for fall and winter dresses a
one CT cur largest inportipg houses
that Of Fenton, Thompson & Co.
and indeed hardly knew where t.
commence 50 confusing are the mul
tiplicity of beauties. Ire silks ar,
mostly what We used TO call shot
in old times, bur the combina'
tloss Of coiors are quite novel anC
very brilliant. TIE wooden and sill
and all wool goods are unusually
handsome, The wool and silks ar,
brocaded with brilliant patterns o
natural flowers, very small Ia figure
rich in colors aud thick and durable
10 quality. Some Of these have the
effect of embossed silver and gold
and all are very elegant They make
alspeciality Of their impcrtations, but
some Of the goods that are manu-
fsctuFeG 10 this city are most excel
lent in quality. and very haBdsome
in appearance, and much cheaper
than imported goods. Their Phila
delphia Bouret'es ard such goods
are particularly inc. They have q
new goods called Shoada which i.
very nice. The most of The gcods
come in the new colors tf bordeaux.
amethyst, plum, cream-yel!0w, olive,
brown, tea, rose aud jaquemino, red
These goods are oaly sold at whole
sale, therefore | cannot quote prices,
but all ladies who love to dress nice
ly mighs envy these beautiful goods.
Stra~bfidge and Ciothier lave
opened their magnificent warehouse
aud store 10 the public aud they show
some Of the most elegant costumes
that it is possible to make. Their
store is fail from morning to night
with ladies' making their fall pur,
chases. The trade is regularly open.
ed now.
Ia bonnets, some of the most ugly
and awkward loobing things that ev.
er were iuVenied for that purpose,
are to be worn. 4 certain leaning
toward the old sugar scoop, or coal
scuttle bonuets of ancient days is OBJ.
.servable, but there ere also so many
styles Of hats and variations 10 bon.
nets, that individual tastes can be
suited. The flowers for fall and win.
ter bonnets are the richest | have
for many years aud, then Tot to
the same extent as now. The feath-
ere, of which there will be quantities
now, Is well as flowers, are bright
ened with gilt stars, gold Deeds and
seal garnet beads, and the rich gold
colored feathers Of the pheasant and
peacock are chosen out and worked
up into what they call cashmere ef-
iects. Fruit is used 10 with the
flowers such as never has been worn
before. Peaches of natural 81 ze, rs
well AZ plums. walnuts, persimmons,
to say nothing of grapes and straw
berries. The fruits woald seem
more in place under a glass shade in
q drawing room; still ii any body
can wear such thiags G; all, the wo.
men OF this city will manage to look
charming ia them am not alone
in this opinion. witness al extract
which | give from ore of Mrs. II y.
P~ane,ast's letters to the Daily Pres
from Paris, which have attracted
much attention, from the fact that she
speaks her honest convictions instead
OF bowling down and worshipping ev-
erything simply because it is French.
Mrs. Paucoast knows what she is
talking about perfectly well, as she
is the most renowned mOdiste Of this
city, aud ste is il Paris now for fall
sly lee, but she sees things az they
exist ard has been sincere enough to
write what IS true. She says:
But will tell you q secret, some
thing that you will be glad and proud
to hear. Our women of America, and
particularly Philadelphia, are the
best dressed women 10 the world
The women of Paris dress better
than any 10 Europe, and cur women
dress better than they, ergo ours are
The best dressed. Now, Who says a
woman cannot make an argument.
Bot seriously, that is q fact, there is
in Philadelphia 9 peculiar chic that
is possessed by every one, and which
seems indigenous to the climate, of
knowing exactly what to wear and
how to wear it. From poor t. rich
there is a peculiar fitness Of thi ,gs,
and though the dress Of one person
nav not cost tie tenth Of The price Of
the otber, the style is az elegant, the
same attention paid TO the mode. and
those numberless little accessories of
hats, boots, gloves, etc are always
neat and in general harmony with
the whole, and with US it is general
aud not occasional The whole
population of our beautiful city
are well dressed, even though
The material Of their garments
be cheap. The street styles are med
est and designed 10 please the eye,
but not attract attention. Here it is
different, the poor and middle class
have distinctive dresses, and les gran
les danes dress more II attract atten-
lion as they loll back in their clleches
han anything else. Their out door
i~resses are gay and bright eolored,
trimmed most deliberately, with little
to true artistic taste, and their
Jrandes f0jietteS are more pronounce
Z style than we admire: of course,
here il magnificent dressing in
bat il is more snowy than
-eally elegant.
Ii looks droil, too, u see ladies 60
ng to dinner with breakfast caps oD,
md il seems to me as If they were
to c5mmence sweeping. Their
hoes are NO. as DAINTY and well
'ormed as our own, in spite OF all the
;hoemakers have to say about theirs
being "Ffeneh shoes in fact, bon
acts and shoes, cloaks aud dresses,
sll ere truly excelied by our own
American wotkmen, and "a Ameri-
,an women know how TO YEA them
20 a. to earn the namc of being the
b~auds0mest and most s;yiishly dress
ed women In the world.
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