Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-09-28
FASHIONABLE FANCIES.


YELLOW, red and olive green guipure
lace has appeared.
SILVER GRAY and AMBER tinted dresses
are very fashionable.
FLUTINGs being very much out of
fashion, will be exchanged for slightly
gathered founces or plain bias bands.
PLAIN velvet is now making it's reap
pearance, while figured or brocaded vel
vet is quite going out of fashion.
ONE of the richest novelties promised
for fall is sealskin cloth, material
heavily embroidered with gold or silver
BLACK velvet bracelets, fastened by
tiny buckles of French paste are again
fashionably worn with delicate evening
dresses.
The black satin pelisse, lined with
bright-colored satin and trimmed with
black Spanish lace, forms nice transi-
ton between the light summer mantle
and the heavy fur cloak of the winter.
The wooden fabrics imported this sea-
son, according to the Bazaar, have strips
of plush an inch wide or more, shaded in
the color of the wooden ground, or else
in contract with it.
The first wraps for cool days are pale
tots and square-sleeved cloaks of Eng
lish homespun and Scotch cloths made
in three-quarter lengths, neither very
long nor very short, and trimmed with
deep plush collars.
FEWER gathered sleeves are shown
than last season, as the materials are
now too thick for fullness about the
arms. The simplest sh1rred, folded or
pleated frills and inside cuffs are on the
most stylish dresses.
BORDERS made of the tips of smooth
feathers are very fashionable for trim
ming hats. The feathers of pheasants,
peacocks, guinea fowls and such like be-
ing much used for the purpose. The
head of the bird is often added on at the
side.
CHEvIoT dresses are very fashionable.
They are worn in shades of dark red,
dark green, clay color, cigar brown, lava,
and the numerous tints of gray. The
checks are very fine and lined with a
single thread Of red and blue, or, in some
cases, gold and silver thread.
The fashionable choice for black
dresses will be Rhadames silk, or else
satin marveilleux with damask Aounces.
Rhadames is new twilled silk on both
sides, but differently twilled, showing
the lustrous twill of satin on the right
side, but merely that of pure silk on the
wrong side. 1t is as soft and pliable as
the satin marveilleux, which it rivals.
The fashion of having the basque
different from the skirt continues. 1t is
made OF MORE or of striped stuff, of
plush or of velvet, or else it is of satin
surah or of cashmere, with MORE skirt
or with plush. The row of founces up
the left side so much worn during the
summer is now transferred to the back
of the skirt. The open embroidery
done on the cashmere is the new trim
ming for these always pretty and favor
lite fabrics. Only a small quantity of
this is needed, as it Is confined to the
front of the drapery, and to trimming
the basque.
! AMONG the imported pattern hats is
the T" Conde," which recalls the fashions
of the time of Anne of Austria, and is
garnished with wreath of small feath-
ers jauntily stuck up all round and
dropping over the edge of the hat. Also,
the I" Radcliff, with high crown, shaded
with a large tinted feather; and the
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turned up over the chignon or falling in
to hollow pleated curtain. Under the
protruding brim, sheltering the face,
bows of ribbon and wreaths Of flowers
are placed, the top being trimmed with
lace quillings or light tufts of tinted
! feathers.
| AN innovation is made this fall in all
the very dark shades which have pre-
vailed by the introduction of bronze
hues, which in various tones, both in
dress and millinery, will be very fash
ionable. Not only the bronze colors
will be prominent, but all the different
shades of brownish yellows, yellowish
green's and bronze browns, to say moth
ing of pure yellows, both light and dark,
and all colors showing a trace of this
hue, from the terra Gotta and deep ecru
shades to the delicate buff, lemon, straw,
sulphur, and particularly the greenish
yellows and mastic tints which have so
ragged in the aesthetic world of art and
fashion abroad.