The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-23
FASHION TALK.
The Latest Combinations i'm Colors
and Fabrics.
The Shades That Are Most Popular
Painted Silk Jewelry-N and
Pretty Styles of Lingerie
Minor Notes.

been raidng our streets for the past two or |
three days has SGT the unready, procrastInat |
Ing wits Of the shopping world In flntter.
The wooens, velvets. satins and silks, which !
looked not merely unreasonable but suffo |
eating last Monday, when the mercury |
marked 81, to-day suggest only thoughts OF
comfort and stand dressed In new beauty In
our eyes.
The stores are not less elegant than gay
with nm exhibition OF rare fabrics. that show
the recent alliance between Eastern Ideas of
form and color, and Western achievements in
manufactured textiles. The drifting toward
this end, which commenced languidly in the
spring gradually strengthened into q cur
rent In the summer. and has now become a
sweeping tide In which Individual preferences
and aversons are completely merged.
To crafty the indispensable appetite for va
riety which fashion has fostered, silks and
woolans continue to show new combinations
OF established colors in grosgrain, stripes
and brocades. The stripes are frequently
shaded, producing whom artisticalIy handled
lovely effects of light and shade. The change
able stripes, noticed sometime since, appear
! to be susceptible of marvellous variety Of
effects, showing bright or dark shades as
they are turned toward or from the light and
sometimes cleaning with lustrous reilee
ton OF both colors.
| Plain silks intended for combination with
stripes or brocldes show most prominently
| the dark coIors Thus. in a combination of
olive and old gold, the gold predominates
In the striped material and the olive In the
plain In broeaded silks also changeable
.f,atr, for in1tn in
clustered flowers. Of very dark blue or an old
gold ground the sheen as 1t Is turned to the
| light showing both colors with exquisite
effect The silk usually combined with
stripes and brocades Is exactly alike on both
sides. n fact which all discreet purchasers
will duly appreciate.
The colors which seem to hold the favor OF
the shopping public are chiefly the Rem
brandt green, with a strong flavor OF blue in
1t amaranthe, blue leaning toward purple.
and seen In the callenes our black mammies
used to wear In the auld lang syne; and the
blue OF n ducks breast, with cigar, mahogany
and canaque, q coppery brown, for dress ma
terals In the reds that ent r into the India
fabrics, the old dull Pompeiian tint Is most
seen, although we are sometimes surprised
WIN Oh -. =. , -.
Feh tilac 2 sca.oets eoen' eAcepe - peas -
glowing scarlet SALIVA Old gold shows Its
irrepressible face In all mixed goods, and Is
| ,,,.,t,,,a In stranooat contrast with vor,,
dark browns, blues and greens, Yellow.
4 which represents splendor In color language,
though not in itself altogether pleasing
gives life and briliancy to all colors with
which 1t comes In contact One dande-
lion, or single butter cup, will make whole
bouquet alive and luscious. 1t Ia color
beloved In all oriental countries. and In Its
softer shades Is especially becoming to their
dard- hued daughters. Nature not unfre-
quently meets our whims with such little
illnesses. Ii Is said that Rubens loved to IL
Illuminate his pictures with masses OF yellow
! the oonquerlng midday sunbeam to the
: faint amber OF the Western sky at eventde
Many stubborn prejudice has gone down on
penitential knees, and many converted eye
! has been lifted In mute alteration before the
golden hearted roses that festoon Mr.. Hutch
} insons gallery on st. Charles Avenue.
Red among the orientals, is expressive OF
gayety and eonytviality, the latter 81 gniftcance
being possibly derived from association and
! the custom Of looking upon the wine when II
, is red. Swedenborg, however In his science
OF correspondence, lifts it above Its baechana.
liar Interpretation and places 1t on the pin,
naele OF sentiment as the symbol OF Love.
Green, another pet Of natures. Is varlously
and enthusiastically interpreted TO represent
! peace and plenty, jealousy and desertfon. II
Is now one OF the ruling colors, possibly be
! cause 1t Is q favorlte with the Persians. whose
9 color bearers we seem to have become. LIZ
one Of It's "darkly, deeply, beautifully blue
shades it is chrtstenei Rembrandt" and the
> fashionable world feels itself the indorser any
. indorsed Of art,
: In Justice to "the sweetest color that's
9 worn,' VIC ought to say something about
| blue, but we have not the time, and we mus
also leave unsaid all the pretty things thai
a deserve to be said about plum color and gar
net, because, we are Impatient to tell abou
g something else that Is very beautiful.
y II have found out gift for my fair, In tn
:, lovely and unique painted silk jeweIry nov
y first exhibited In New Orleans. The fashion
. books have been giving untntelligible de
2 scriptions OF It, and our we'll feathered bird
Of passage, who are coming South along will
o the wild geese and "cold Cranes" tell abou
: silk necklaces and bracelets, but still give IL
9 no definite idea of its nature. But we hav
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