St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-09-20
Fashion Notes.
Red never goes ont of fashion.
Yellow flowers are very fashionable.
Felt will be revived for fall hats aDo

RGd never goes out OF 1aSnlOn.
Yellow flowers are very fashionable.
Felt will be revived for fall hats aDo
bonnets.
Sleeves are to be worn lower on the
shoulders.
Round turpans are the novelty for
early fall wear.
Iron rust browns are the rivals Of
gray and mushroom.
Astrakhan Jersey cloth comes among
the new wool stuts.
Lace dresses are worn in the streets
Of Paris, but not in New York.
Velvet, satin and lace costumes will
be all the rage in the earl y fall.
Fancy feathers will be more worr&than
ostrich tips on the first fall hats.
Motifs of embroidery and beads will
be much used for dress decorations,
Half long Turkish jackets of velvet
broche will be the first dressy fall wraps.
Moliere fronts of all sorts are tabooed
Cockades of owl feathers sprinkled
with gold dust appear among fall mil
linery goods.
Velvet leaves veined and edged with
gold will be used for bonnet trimmings
and dress motifs.
Jet and chenille will play an impor-
tant part in dress trimmings, decora-
tions, and motifs next season.
Brown and pale pink is the favorite
combination for millinery and acces.
series of the tohet at the moment.
MANY skirts are being made with ons
deep hounce extending almost to the
waist. Over this falls short overskirt
scant and slightly draped.
The small capote is the most favored
bonnet, but for those ladies who will
have big bonnets, the "fish-wife' and
Mother Hubbard shapes are shown.
Polarian is new WOODEN stuff fol
jackets, ulsters and trimmings. II
comes in smooth, curled. tleecy pile
surface, initiating the skins of the Per-
sian lamb.
The fashionable colors are, or will be,
iro1-rust browns, grays, ashes of roses,
dark greens, mignonette and mush.
room shades, punch blue, fawns and
be:ges.
Cuirass woven, chevron, arn1ure,
Venetian, birdseye and other fancifui
weavings are the features in the new
mohair and cheYiot woods of the incom-
ing season.
Short jackets made of jersey webbing
will be in high favor to wear with skirts
of half-worn dresses or with accordion
or box plated mohair and light wool
skirts.
Dark blue and red calicoes, with large
anchors, bars of music. and cards and
dominoes, printed in white, black, and
colors, are the fanciful wear at seaside
and watering places this fall.
The new wooden goods, mohairs,
cheyiots, fanneIs. camels' hair and
jersey cloths are already in the hands
of our merchants, and show new weav-
ings, new colors and new mixtures.
Pale blue brocade, pale blue feathers
and diamonds were worn by the Baron
ess Burdett-C outts-Bartlett st a ball
lately given by the German Embassy in
London. The Baroness is in her seven
tieth year.
Wooden velvet stuffs, with uncut vel
vet flowers and figures on prunella-
twilled grounds, are to be worn as skirts
of suits that will have polonaises Or red
ingotes or jackets of plain, twilled. OF
jersey web cloth.
The sashes worn with autumn dresses
by young girls at watering places are
very broad, made of silk or surah, not
ribbon, and arranged in plaits which
pass around the waist, tying on one
side. with the ends falling the full
width almost to the bottom OF the skirt
Red surah is the favorite stuff for these
sashes.-N. Z. Sun.