St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-09-10
The new GOODS
FOR
fall AND wINTER,
188O-81,

have arrived and the Fall
Trade has commenced in ear
nest. l shall leave the matter
of deciding on the merits of
these goods to those who see
them, as talk is said to be
cheap. 1 will say, however, to
those who buy fine clothing,
that this seasons stock is the
finest [ have ever seen in this
town.
The styles of garments have
not changed much since the
last report, except in the ten
dency to make coats smaller,
and to close higher. Panta-
looms are cut smaller with
more spring, with a tendency
to be made still smaller in flu
ture. All business and sack
suits are more with single
breasted no-collar vest closing
high. In this connection I
would remark that no custo-
mer will be compelled to wear
any STYLE that is obnoxious TO
him, and that, as in the past,
satisfaction is promised.
The following description of
the new goods for this season,
taken from Vests New York
Report of Fashions, will give
the readers of the Cazedonian
an idea of the different styles
of Goods that are now being
sold for the Fine Trade:-
In making a careful examination of
the new goods for the coming Autumn
and Winter, we find the variety is
large. The increase in business the
past year, and the large amount of fan
cy suitings that has been used by the
fine trade, has given character and pres
tige to many makes and colors of the
more fancy patterns. To say that there
is any one style or color of fancy goods
that is leading, would be saying too
much, or would be an exaggeration of
the facts. The endless variety of small
checks, pin checks, broken and unde-
cided checks, that have been in favor
for some time, are still in favor, with a
tendency to increase the size of the
check bordering on to a small plaid.
There is also a marked tendency to in
troduce plain undecided pin check of
admixtures with broken over check or
broken plaid, in variety of designs,
all of which are in use and find patron
age. There does not appear to be any
disposition to adopt the plaid as worn a
few years since. Plaids in their origi-
nal form were very marked style, a
plain ground with red, blue, green and
other strong colors, running in bars and
large squares, giving marked appear
ance. The present style of plaid is of a
very different character, being an ad-
mixture of colors combined in pin
checks with an over plaid of broken
lines, making the plaid scarcely notice.
able, and at the same time giving a
very pleasing effect. There has been,
and still is quite a tendency to wear
blue checks and stripes for trousers,
and in some cases blue trousers have
been worn with fancy coats; also the
blue check and stripes have been fash
ionable for sack and cutaway suits.
Blue checks and stripes will still be in
favor for suits and trousers, though
from the present appearance they will
not be as much in favor the coming
season as they were last. We are in
duced to think that blue is on the wane
from the fact that some of the finer
trades who have been cutting a large
amount of blue for the last two or three
seasons, are buying quite small under
the impression that blue has had its
day with the finer trades. However
this premature judgment may prove
to be mistake.
There has been quite a tendency for
some time to make a run on green, but
that is too marked a color. Green is
considered fashionable, but there is but
little of it in use, not enough to warrant
any one in laying in stock. Undecid-
ed green mixtures are in favor. Olive
is a leading color, especially olive mix
lures. There is no tendency for any
decided color to have a prominent run.
In summing up it would be pertinent
to say that there is no radical change
in the style of woolens for the coming
season, and that merchant tailors can
be governed largely by their own taste
in selecting from the various goods that
will be shown in the market. That
portion of the trade who order their
goods before they are made, consequent.
ly have their orders placed at this time
and the selection of the styles already
determined. In these cases it has been
observable that the trade never befor,
had been governed as much by theil
own taste in selecting their stock az
they have the present season. This i,
a coming feature and a growing on,