Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-29
LATEST ABOUT FASHIONS.

LATEST ABOUT EAS6lONos
Nebuleux is new shade of Russian gray.
Bright-colored stripes and checks are
again in favor, and those who rush after
every novelty will at once appear in zebra
CARDS, showing as many different hues as
the ancient costume worn by Joseph him.
self.
Cloak clasps made OF Roman gold and
l0pis ldzuli are very fashionable. The
stone is of dark. blue color, notified with
brown, and it is from this that the much
valued pigment called ultramarine is made.
Pretty nets made OF silver or gold threads,
and also silk nets with gold beads threaded
in the meshes, are being worn once more
by very young ladies. In silk they come
in shades of brown, auburn, golden color
and black, to match the shade OF the hair.
Girdles of plush, velvet or MORE are re-
vived. They are fastened front and back
with silk lacings, and upon the left side is
placed a sash of black watered silk ribbon,
among the loops of which is gathered
naouchoir pouch abont eight inches deep.
A decided novelty is the shooting. jacket
made of dark colored cardinal cloth, or
vigogne, which is worn upon the street
over skirts of black satin, silk or cashmere,
They are stylish, and also very comfortable
looking these cool autumn days, and do
not appear as conspicuous as one would
suppose.
Many of the new fall round hats, and
few of the mitigated poke-bonnets, have a
fall of Spanish lace at the edge Just deep
enough to shade the eyes. The drapery is
very becoming to most faces, and as the
fashion gains ground and the width of the
lace grows a trife deeper, wells will be
quite superseded.
The favorite decoration at present for the
throat is necklace Of amber or real cora
beads, both of which are in great request.
According to the esthetc code, amber
beads should be worn with the new artistic
silky green's, the deep philosopher blues,
any of the dowdy reds, or the intensely
royal puppies, which they affect.
Intensely bright colors are seen among
all the late importations, and some OF the
new combinations are quite alarming. Ii
this fancy goes on unchecked, an audience
of fashionable ladies in church or concert
will resemble huge bed of Dutch tulips,
and the similarity will be heightened by the
ewly-developed taste for stripes of every
possible hue.
The high. peaked crowns OF some of the
latest imported fall hats are covered with
towering feathers, not soft curling tips, but
great, horse-ike plumes, sometimes five
or six in number. Another French fancy
is to cover the crowns with solid vailing
of glittering jet or iridescent beads, which
in the sunlight or gaslight have very
brilliant effect.
Checked and striped woolen goods serges,
vigognes, cheviot cloth and limousine are
the most fashionable materials for autumn
walking costumes which are invariably
made with short round skirts, either laid
in very broad, fiat ox-pleats from belt to
toe, or with three straight founces put on
in hollow pleats. In the latter case a wide
scarf is draped over the skirt and knotted
loosely, low on the left side.
Black velvet poke ponnets are prettily
relieved by bright.color Innings Those of
crimson or doe.colored satin being favor
ites), to which are added broad strings of
the velvet, supplemented by pair of mar
rover ones neatly tied above and matching
the colored lining chosen for the interior of
the bonnet itself, the bouiltOnne crown of
which has generally bow of the bright
material placed upon one side.
Jaunty- looking marine hats Of very fine
French felt are imported, dyed in the
fashionable shades of seal brown, myrtle
green, admiral blue, dark cardinal, etc., to
match varied costumes. The crown is en-
circled with wreath of feathers, into
which is set garland of seasonable flow
rs-chrysantheuums of every hue, pop
pies, wheat heads, and Indebtedness daisies
being interviewer in true rustic fashion. 1t
is almost unnecessary to say that these gay
hats are only suitable for those who are
still in their premier jeltnesse.
independent coats, to be worn over
skirts of black or dark colors, are still seen
in great variety. They present the same
leading features closely fitting shape
which outlines the figure, high neck and
tight coat sleeves. The materials of which
they are made are brocaded velvet, striped
MORE. plush, or cloth. Plain black satin
or silk coats will also be desirable
medium between the very expensive and
the very plain styles These coats have
cuffs, pockets and deep, rounding collar of
velvet, and are also adorned with hand
some buttons of steel, faceted jet or those
of silk fastened by cords or frogs.
Indicative, or rather confirmatory, of the
supposition that round waists and full,
antique bodices will be as general as the
sharp pointed waists have already become,
are exhibited very handsome variety of
waist.buckles for belts. Among these are
solid silver clasps, set with semi-precious
stones, and those of Roman gold, with
carved heads in Egyptian designs. More
novel still are buckles made of shark skin,
which is now being utilized for useful as
well as for merely decorative purposes.
These clasps are mounted in silver, and the
yellowish-white epidermis seems as hard
to the touch as the metal surrounding it.