Smyrna times., 1879-09-10
Fall Fashion Hints.

important questions are now agitating |
the fashionable feminine world.
What fabrics are we going to wear and |
how we make them up?
The large Wholesale houses generally i'm.
port standard goods, while those which
have both retail and wholesale trade bring
out novelties, and these are seldom ordered
in large quantities at first for fear they will
not meet with the approval of the fair ones
for whom they were intended. Hence it is
that decided novelties are often entitled to
the name after articles brought out at the
same time and made common by promis-
cuous acceptance have been in favor and
discarded
Such a novelty is foulard silk, rather
heavier than the ordinary foulard, and
covered with irregular stripes on black and
yellow, interspersed with amber, upon an
old gold ground. 1t is called tiger foulard,
and looks like the skin of that animal.
Chenille cloth and velvet camel's hair are
different from any goods before imported,
but will not long remain in favor, for the
loops which come above the back of the
cloth are uncut, and will catch in rough
surfaces and pulls out like the loops of the
tapestry carpet. These fabrics are, how
ever very pretty, being not only odd but
on some patterns most brilliantly colored
| in decided dashes or flakes, and after the
manner of the last years bourette.
A new waterproof is, in appearance, like
| soft, fine and beautiful cloth; more COM
pact than camels hair, and yet susceptible
of being gracefully draped and arranged in
trimmings. This retails at $l.25 yard,
and is not injured by rain or snow, and
being perfectly waterproof is also used in
1 Intpo oln 10 oF i
coverings, as well as for compile costumes.
1t is called India cloth, and comes in all
| the desirable new colors and shades. There
are various other kinds of cloths, which
will be popular for mid-winter wear, and
will be trimmed with braids and furs for
cold water. Such suits will be very useful
If you remember, handsome Irish poplins
used to cost quite as much as silk, and were
richer and heavier than the silks that sold
at the same prices, $3.50 and SO a yard
For two or three years these goods have
lain dormant, simply because they did not
drape we'll; this season poplins have been
retired, but decided differences are notice
able in the new fabrics. They are rich in
finish, with sillen surface, but they are
not so heavily corded, and are soft, plablt
and can be beautifully draped.
Velvets are going to be in great demand
not only as trimmings for poplns and sill
costumes. but as the suit proper, and will bC
in turn garnitures with plain or brocadeC
silks, or the new figured and embossed
velvets, which come in designs, and in al
the fashionable colors. Velveteens, too
} will be used for complete suits for fall wea
and trimmed with silks early in the season
and with furs for mid.winter service an,
: for skating costumes.
In the large retail stores in New Yorl
! and in our palace of fashion, Wanamaker'
Grand Depot, new goods have not yet bee
exhibited in the show-rooms, but whole
, sale buyers are privileged to examin
S samples of the goods, so soon as the i'm
t portations are received from the other side
e The models already in the manufacturin
D department at the Grand Depot look lik
: old pictures and are very quaint and prett,
:. From them we learn that walking skir
e are surely to be short-that is, they wi
d escape touching the ground by at lea
e three inches all around. Elaborate decor
q ton is still in favor, and much fullness ma
e be found over the hips and in the hack
d showing the certain coming of the panic
not only rs an outside mode of garntur
If but the panier support underneath IL
t skirts. The most popular Of these al
e made of deer hair, and serve as support
1. well as slightly to increase the appearan
IS of size.
e. Jackets and basques, as yet, have l
n decidedly novel features, but the borde
Is which are now used for day as well as eve
lr ing purposes, have deep points both bac
Or and front, while those for balls are We
much pointed, very low in the neck al
er absolutely sleeveless. For full dress t
n, skirts are still demi, or very long trair
IN according to the fancy of the wearer.
lg yet we have seen nothing peculiar in wral
The same styles as were worn late in t
p. spring will be in favor for at least t,
op months, and then we predict absolu
to changes in the outside garments for Ii
he fall and mid-winter. NJ. E. L.
ut PHILADELPHIA, Aug. Goth, 1879.