Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1885-10-03
ELEGANT IonEIrES.
Some of the Materials Considered Connie
ii Faut for Fall and Winter.

Some of the Materials Considered CONNIE
II Faut for Fall and Winter.
Buckles, clasps, slides, and hooks in
gold, silver steel, bronze, enamel,
pearl, amber and jet are used with
free hand this autumn both for dress
and millinery purposes. These various
ornaments, in all manner of odd, quaint
devices, often represent nothing
but the vagaries of the design
er's Imagination. Antique gold
belt clasps, with dog-collar orna-
ments to match, set with brilliant
Rhine stones, or ornaments for like
purpose made of iridescent enamel, in
laid with half-precious colored gems in
floral patterns, are added to many
of the elegant costumes of silk and
satin, and also to handsome tailor
made suits of rich hued tricot or
boucle fabrics. With the new fashion
of loose Fedora vests, 10 wear beneath
pretty house jackets, no buttons are
visible, and the ull-gathered fronts are
caught at the belt with ribbons, and
held with these fancy clasps, one large
one or two smaller sizes, as preferred.
Some of the elegant fancy woolen fab
RIGS brought out recently are as eX-
pensive as silk or satin goods of fine
quality, and are far more popular for
street wear than either of these materi-
ais, il we except, perhaps, the dark du-
rable surahs. The new vigognes, for
instance, are shown with exceedingly
rich broche figures, small, but magnif-
Gently colored, over plain, rich, darkly-
dyed grounds. The broche designs, all
though showing a mingling of Persian
colors, are always in perfect harmony
with the prevailing shade of the goods
they decorate, reminding one of the
autumn foliage, "a triie subdued from
its first vivid brilliancy of coloring,
against the background of dull, dark
September sky. These rich figures are
not woven in clusters, but detached and
sprinkled at quite wide intervals over
the soft, handsomely finished fabrics.
This is to be "checkered" season
in the matter of wooen fabrics, Judging
by the endless lines and grades Of
plaided and blocked patterns which
strew the counters and adorn the shop
windows of exclusive importers,
who are sure to secure the leading
novelties for their patrons. The new
| plaids and checks are uncommonly
handsome, and there is an absence Of
the over brilliant coloring which fire.
quently characterizes these designs.
Cream and ruby, olive and doe color,
dark blue and deep crimson (the fash
ionable Princess Of Wales" combina-
tion), and an artistic shading of a
single color merely outlined at the
edges of each plaid, with hair lines of
contrasting hue, are among the many
patterns displayed. Long, full drapings,
laid in heavy flat folds at one side, or
down each side of the front of the dress,
is the popular and stylish mode of ar
ranging the skirts to these. Velvet is
used as garniture upon checked and
plaided suits in preference to other
trimmings, and very frequently the
dress, wrap in the shape of Gladstone
jacket, or long French pelise, and the
princess bonnet are made to correspond.
The new double skirts are likely 10
become general as the season passes,
and the fashion is eminently calculated
for the heavy woolen materials which
form so large part of cold-weather at
tire. The double skirt increases the
warmth of the gown, and does away
with complicated drapery. Upon some
models these skirts are cut of nearly
equal length, and are set into rather
short-wsisted but pointed bodices in
thick gathers or heavy folds. The up
per skirt is faced up for considerable
distance, with contrasting color. 1t
is then caught up high on one side or
on both sides-a Ia milkmaid-as taste
suggests. The bright facing is in
tended to be shown, and this color is
repeated on the waistcoat and upon the
collar and cuff facings. M T. Post