The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-09-08
Autumn STYLES.

Autumn Styles.
While the summer season is still at
its height, merchants and modistes are
preparing for the autumn. The first
importations of wooden and silk dress
goods show stripes, moires and ombre
grounds for their leading features. The
striped stuffs are meant for trimmings
and for combining with plain fabrics,
especially as skirts and as plated
founces for trimming skirts. There
are lengthwise and crosswise stripes,
narrow stripes and wide ones, even
stripes and irregular clusters, bold.
well-defined stripes and the vaguest
pencile1 lines, Ombre and watered
stripes. brocaded stripes, satin, velvet
and plush stripes. Perhaps the great
est novelty of all is the Introduction Of
line stripes that are the merest threads
of gilt or of silver in wooden stuffs OF
ordinary quality; it is claimed that this
gilt and silver will not tarnish. or they
would not appear in fabrics meant for
general use. Sometimes only the
smallest stitches of the tinsel are used,
but these arrange themselves in stripes,
and give tone to the stuff. New Cheviots
in stripes of olive. bronze, copper red,
blue and green have da she's of red gold
given by single threads, while chuddah-
like woollens of solid myrtle green, leaf
brown, or brick red have raised lines
and double lines of gold, either red
gold, the yellow of Roman gold, or else
the bronzed gold shade. Dull, soft hues
still prevail in the Chevicts, and these
are sometimes frightened by stitches
of silks of flame red, bright blue. or
jonquil yellow. In many Cheviots the
colors, though disposed in bars and
lines. are so well blended that the effect
of solid color is given, while others OF
heavy cloth-like texture really have but
one tone of any of the dark. artistic
shades, especially the copper reds
and bronze or olive green's. For
twilled woollens of lighter weight
there, are gay contrasts z in the
stripes, such as claret grounds
with pale blue, olive, or rose lines,
while others have several colors in one
stripe, such as red, gray, olive, blue,
and yellow together. An ombre-
stripe ground of copper red with light
ecru or blue penciling has pretty
effect when the narrow lines are of
silk. The wooden goods on which
MORE stripes are seen are usually
satines, with thee twills so closely
woven that the surface is az lustrous as
satin; among these are old gold
watered stripes an inch wide on black,
blue or seal brown grounds. A great
many shades of brown are shown in
the new stuffs, some with golden tints,
and others as dull and dark as dead
leaf shades can be; there are also a
variety of stone, mode, and drab
shades with blue and with pink tints
put in odd contrasts with the dull! red
and greens now in vogue. All the
wool fabrics shown are soft, flexible,
pleasant to the touch, and excellent for
drapery. Twilled surfaces abound,
and are shown in the fine cashmere
twills. the smooth lustrous twill OF
Saline, the regular "diagonals'' OF
serge, and in the rough-fnished camel
hair twill. The flannel and cloth
finished goods, smoothly and evenly
woven, mark an entirely different class
of woolens. Some new effects are Civ
en- in plaid goods by making the ground
ombre, and having the bars of but one
or two colors. Thus olive green ombre
grounds are barred with many lines of
pale. blue or of gold, or a few red lines
are added to these. The red ombre
plaids are shaded down to black in the
center of each plaid, and barred with
olive or brown, two shades of blue
with gold lines have ombre drab for a
background; shaded purple is relieved
by gold bars. A favorite contrast is
copper red with one of the yellow-green
shades, and to these are added tinsel
lines through the green bars. Some
bright Jacqueminot red is sobered with
gray and green, and this arrangement
of colors is seen in both stripes and
plaids. The solid-colored twilled
woods, both in cashmeres and serges,
represent all the colors seen in the
stripes and plaids, and these solid col.
ors are to serve as the principal part of
the dress, or at least as the over-dress
and wrap. For instance, new French
plates for autumn have a polonaise and
pelerine of olive or copper red CASH
mere, with a short skirt on which are
from three to six tlounces of striped
wool, plated so that the stripes. which
are the color of the polonaise will be
on top of the plaits, and lighter
stripe in contrast will be under each
plat, and only disclosed by accidental
motions of the wearer. A plastron OF
the stripes made crosswise extends
down the entire length of the over.
dress, and the pelerine, which is round
and clinging, or may be shirred in
Mother Hubbard style about the neck,
passes under this plastron in front.
The front or sides of the polonaise are
brought together low down at the end
of the plastron. and are knotted there
with hanging ends. This is seen with
leaf brown cashmere for the over-dress,
and striped brown and gold for the
skirt; or else copper red for the solid
color. with stripes of red and green, OF
red and blue, or deep red with pale
rose; myrtle green has sage green and
ccru stripes, while olive green over
dresses have stripes of gold, red, or
light blue. Harper Bazaar.