Democratic messenger., 1881-09-24
Flashes OF Fashion.


The rage for beads is on the wane.
W bite toilets will be worn until frost.
CrinOlets are bCstles, with a new name.
Dolmans will be the leading fall wraps.
Bssques aud jackets are still fashionable.
Shoulder capes and schus will be much
worn.
Great latitude is permitted in the shape of
sleeves.
LOose-wristed long gloves will be more
worn than ever.
Ombre plushes will be used as trimmings
on costumes.
Flowers are used on evening toilets to an
unlimited extent
Striped more ribbons will trim many OF
the early fall bonnets.
All costumes and suits are composed of
two or several fabrics.
There will be a rapid demand for dolmans
and dolman .sacques this fall.
Some of the new trimming silks have al
ternating stripes, moire and damasse.
Quantities of Spanish lace, white, black,
cream, and colored, is future in fall toilets.
Dolmans in the sacque-visite shape, and
dolman mantles will lead the styles for ear
ly fall.
Some of the new plush goods have i'm
mensely long pile cut in irregular depths to
form the figures.
Horse hair cloth, mohair, steel and whale
bone stiffened crinolets, will be worn until
cold weather.
Low quartered buttoned half boots will be
worn until the last of September or first
of October.
Lawn tennis suitings in gay stripes will
be worn as skirts for fatigue suits until ths
middle of November.
Rhine-crystal clasps, buckles, msdalIions
and slides ornament various parts of the
most fashionable evening toilets.
Chenille plush stripes, on satin merveill-
eux grounds, are seen among some of the
new trimming stuffs.
The popular outdoor sports for the
months of September, October, and Novem-
ber, will be archery and lawn tennis.
Sleeves are long, demi-long, or three
quarter lengths, according to fancy, tight,
shirred, or puffed, as the wearer prefers.
The hair is most fashionable when dress
ed low and close but women with large
necks and fat faces should wear it high or
off the neck.
Pleated collarettes of null, plain white,
dotted, embroidered, and polka-dotted in
black and colors, are much worn, with
scarf-bows to match.
Some of the striped goods, in bright col
ors, with gold and silver hair-lines. are
crossed diagoually with strips formed by the
weaving of the cloth.
The Princess of Wales wore toilet of sill
ver.gray tulle, much puffed, pleated and
draped, ard frightened with diamond orna-
ments at the Quesn's last ball.
Terra Gotta shades combine ell with
porcelain-blue, peacock-green, black, ma
room and white, especially in stripes OUT
lined with gold and silver threads shot in.
Dresses composed entirely of tulle. pulled,
pleated, shirred and gathered, are not. at
the moment, considered too youthful foe
young married ladies for ballroom wear.
White and cream colored null scarfs, with
the en- DIS edged with the fine cream-colored
(imitation), Mechlin, Valenciennes, and Bre-
ton laces trim English strsws for early fal
wear.
Plush chenille fringes, with each small
stra d tipped with one fine cut jet bead, are
brought ont to be used with the plush bands
shirrings, and pleatings that trim cloaks and
costumes.
White Surah, combined with white satin
merveilleux, aud trimmed with white Span
ish lace, white satin bows, and Rhine-crys-
tai ornaments, makes the handsomest OF all
white evening toilets.
Flowers of the fall season, particularly
ox-eye daisies, small sunfowers, goldenrod
aHd yellow roses, will trim many of the
rough-and-ready straw hats and bonnets for
September and October.
The most popular fatigue suit for fall wear
is box -pleated hunting jacket and looped
tunic, of blue, dark geen or maroon flannel
serge, drawn up high on the hips over skirt
of lawn tennis striped suiung, made plain
as q ruie but sometimes trimmed with a
two-inch wide box-pleated ruche around the
bottom. The collar, cuffs, belt, and pocket
pouch are of the striped stuff.