Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-31
FASHIONABLE FANClES,

The fall will be a velvet season.
NECKLACES are only worn with full
dress.
FASHIONABLE dresses are made of nut.
brown sateen.
GLACE silks are now more popular
than the ombre stuffs.
PoNGEE dust-cloaks are stylish, com.
Portable and inexpensive.
A PALE forget-me-not blue has great
vogue among coStons and muslins.
PRETTY and cool evening waists are
made of null puffs and lace insertings.
The buttons for autumn dresses are in
two sizes, and in design and colors are
as handsome as jeweled brooches.
ALL the wool fabrics imported for
autumn and winter are soft flexible.
pleasant to the touch and excellent for
drapery.
A GREAT many shades of brown are
shown in the new strffs, some with
golden tints, and others as dull and
dark as dead-leaf shades can be.
WATERED silk and ribbons will be
largely used the coming season aus trim
mings on velvet and satin dresses, man.
ties, cashmere dresses and other WOODEN
materials.
OUTSIDE dress pockets are no longer
seen, the one useful pocket being dex-
terously concealed among the folds of
the tunic or under the drapings of the
scarf or panier.
SOME of the new long gloves have a.
slit cut in them, either at the top OF
half way up, into which colored ribbon
or broad gold braid about an inch i'm
width is inserted.
TwILLED surfaces abound in the shops
and are shown III fine cashmere twiIls.
the smooth, lustrous twill of Saline, the
regular g. diagonals" of serge and in the
rough finished camel's hair twill.
TERRA Gotta shades will be very fash
1Onable this autumn in soft WOODEN
fabrics, trimmed with Roman plaided on
Persian striped surah, or more elegant
ly with panels, revers, vests, cuffs and
pelerines of seal brown plush.
1T is Just now considered in good taste
not to mix flowers with corsage wear,
but to select favorite blossom, wearing
a huge cluster of the kind chosen. The
sulphur-eolored hollyhock is just at
present enjoying season of popularity
equallng that Of the field daisy so lately
the rage.
PLUsH promises to be the favorite fab
r1c for millinery, both for making the
bonnet itself and for it's trimming.
Glace plush is one of the new change
able fabrics, of which there is great
variety, showing two colors, one for the
background, half obscured by pile of
another color.
Bows of extremely large proportions
are now employed to give effect to the
backs OF basques made of thin materials.
silk as well as grenadine batiste, etc.
The body, which is of the dress fabric,
has large wing-Gke ends extending to
within quarter of yard of the foot of
the dress, and the tied portion reaches
across from hip to hip. The wing-like
ends are equally broad.
MANTLEs are mostly made of soft
merveilleux satin of a glossy black.
some fall loose m front, and are fitted to
the waist behind, and with the wide,
ample sleeves, called magician
Sleeves" trimmed with jet-beaded lace
insertion and edging. Others are simply
of the visite shape, with the square open
sleeve. Spanish lace and jet-bead pas
sementerie are favorite trimmings. The
large magician sleeves are cut so as to
fall loose at the sides when the arms are
raised in front.
HEAVY satin striped fabrics alternat--
ing with stripes of silk plush, in rich,
dark, shades of color, will form some Of
the most expensive and novel dress
materials for the fall and winter. Other
fabrics show broad watered silk stripes.
alternating with stripes formed of heavy
brocade designs showing leaves and
flowers outlined with threads of gold and
silver. The colors, though bright and
striking are harmoniously and artistical-
ly blended. Many of the designs and
effects seen in these new dress materials
are carried out in pushes and broeades
intended for millinery purposes.