Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-09-16
New York Fashions.
FALL MIALINERY-MATERIA
DESIGNS.

DESIGNS.
In choosing your fall bonnet, you may
select among the poke family with quaint.
high pointed crowns, among cottage
shapes or close capotes. Most of the new
hats are very large, having wide crowns
and broad brims turned up on the left
side. These are the newest and doubtless
most stylish, but as many persons cannot
wear very broad hat, we have Derbys and
turbands. Felt is again quite fashionable
and brought out in black, white and all
the new colOrs-garnet, wine olive, bronze,
myrtle green, dark blue, gray, mustard
and castor, and in the way of material,
the changes are many, chiefly on velvet
and plush. Plush indeed is veritable
rage. It is largely used in trimming'
there are plush ribbons with double face of
satin; satin ribbon may have reverse
side of velvet or there can be alternating
stripes of velvet or plush and satin. Flow
ers are ignored by some leading milliners
but others use them to limited extent -
Most of them are very heavy combinations
of chenille and velvet in dark shades of
bronze or olive with touches of garnet, or
yellow, but occasionally few pink or yell
low muslin roses are seen on a lace bon
net. A flower of any kind however, is an
exception. It is feathery and fussy sea-
son. Bands and feathers are without
number; of ostrich plulnes there is no
end; dyed in mixtures of colors, they
sweep around the huge hats in lengths too
great for single feather and are artificial
ly prolonged, but Oh the bonnets, a cluster
of tips is preferred. Birds are quite fash
ionable and often combined with bands or
ostrich plumage, but are not as often seen
as bands surmounted with head or
head and breast. Peculiar trimmings are
made of ostrich clippings arranged in fur
Yy-like ban'is; beavers with long mapped
brims are On tile same order, while more
pronounced shan either, are small animals
heads reduced down to the size of a large
bird g head, they are though in qusstiona-
BILE taste, brought out by exclusive MILL
ners.
MATERIALS.
Thanks to the courtesy of Lord & Tay
lor, I have been permitted to look over
their sample books of Autumn and Whit
er materials. This is in advance of an
exhibition On the counters so that you real
ly will know as soon as the average New
Yorker what we are to expect. Cheviot
with loose twill is the leading material for
semi dress occasions. That in small, in
distinct checks is made up in simply shap-
ed costumes without combination or trim
ming. Newer cheviots are striped with
plush or aaoire satin and to complete the
costume. clouded cheviot in colors to
match is provided. Again we see cheviots
wrought in broad, alternating stripes, and
these are intended for the pksse costumes
that are to be so very fashionable, where
the stripes are arranged in broad plaits so
that the surface is uniformly of one COL
or while the other shows from below in
glimpses only, as disturbed by the move
ments of the wearer. The plush striped
cheviots are especially stylish and the
moire satin striped as well, but here one
must not make the mistake of having
more than part of the costume of such
material, since there must always be a
combination of plain or clouded TWILL
Drap de dame is new material, having a
surface wrought in small regular figures
and satin soleil is wool with satin finish
and with lines set close together across the
breadth. Cashmeres and merinos too, are
quite fashionable and camel's hair CASH
mere, though more expensive, is sought
after. Ali these are in black and solid
colors, and here particularly we find the
new shades of the season, bronze, olive.
forest green, dark blue, seal mahogany and
rosewood browns. Material of another
kind will be much used for trimming
these solid wools Plush will be extreme
IL fashionable for such purpose; either
matching or contrasting in color and is
not only plain but with nap cut OF differ
emit lengths so as TO form squares or stripes
while more pronounced, ia plush woven
with guilt or shaded metal stripes. Aoire
or watered satin is also handsome TRIM