The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-09-25
0aanamaher's.
PHILADELPHIA, september 81, 1885

any help in picking out your
fringes and buttons and braids 7?
Well try. We shall not grab
the first handful of stuff we
come to and 60 into ectacies
over it, as if that were the fash
ion; nor pick out what we want
most to get rid of and make a
fashion of that. a.. .a....
We recognize the fact that it
is a difficult thing to do to tell
you what thousands of things
are good and what other thou
sands are not. You want the
good. Can we help you at all !?
Imagine our buyer going from
city to city in Europe looking
for novelties. What has he
brought2 At home again, he is
besought by every other i'm
porter to see his gatherings,
American makers too are after
him. What is the fashion ?
What has he got from them all ?
There's something in names;
though a name may stand for a
hundred different things. ..
Black chenille frinpes, etc. :
Single and double ball; leech;
looped; mallet; pinched; rat
tail; leech and rat-tail mixed;
leech with Milan drops; leech
with rosary beads; leech with
cut beads; tape thistle; balls
and beads; loops and beads;
tassels; marabouts. These for
mourning: plain and Auted
tapes, single, double and treble;
mixed tapes; tape and grass
marabout and moss; crimped-
silk moss. Braid and ribbon
fringes and marabouts.
Colored fringes and mara
bouts of braid, tape and che
nile. Moss trimmings of wor-
sted and silk to match every
thing plain and mixed in dress
stuffs.
Black passementeries: With
and without beads; drop gal
looms; ornament gimps; mohair
gimps; all-bead fringes straight
and pointed in cut and pressed
beads; pendant drop fringes;
beaded nets, grenadines and
laces; crochet gimps. Colored
passementeries of braids and
cords, narrow and wide-the
widest 3I-inch, for dress-fronts
and panels. (
Braided balls, black and
colors.
Feather trimmings, American
and foreign = American are
much the richer and finer; the
foreign excel in the lower grades
and in extreme combinations. .
Braids: Black, white and col
ors plain colors and mixed
cotton. worsted, mohair, silk
tinsel and mixed; shaped braid
trimming. ..'L -.'tIf' /
This by no means exhausts
the trimming gresources; but most
Of the materials are here
grouped together. The names
alone convey a better notion OF
what is going to be worn thar
we could otherwise put il
words, however many we nigh
use, The difficulty is in the
endless variety of forms the va
rious trimmings take. 1t ism
possible to touch them. Yol
wouldn't read a hundredth part
OF buttons another day. /
Northwest from the centre.
Everybody knows that Fall,
Francaise is crowding hard upol
gros-grain silk-has crowded
out of favor in strictly fashion
able dress. On the whole, though
we shall sell more gros-grai
than of heavier cord in spite Q
fashion. There's no differenc
but the size of the cord and tn
lustre. a
/ We have the new silk iron
Guinet at SI.75 and s., w
divide the colors. Those thu
ninety-nine in hundred wi
buy are at SI.75; a few rar
colors that very few buyers wi
care for, So.
Black cotton-back velvets {
more than market fulness for s
to 1915; but we shall have
keep those above S2.5o till II
all-silk velvet at 81 is out of tll
! way. Those at s. and 81 al
$ supposed to be the cheapest