Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-09-12
FASHION NEWS AND NOTES.
Written for The Herald bu Leone. "
STRIPED GOODS.

STRIPED GOODS.
Plush, velvet and MORE stripes are
seen in various wool fabrics to form
combinations with new crinkled wool
Grapes, the English serges and PLAIN
camel 's-hair.
The stripes vary from a fourth of an
inch to those two or even three inches
wide, but the designs most largely i'm
ported are made up of even stripes that
are each an inch and q half wide.
Many colors appear in the smaller
stripes in one fabric, red, blue, green.
and orange velvet lines being raised on
brown or blue twilled wool surface; but
in wider stripes two colors in contrast or
at most three colors, are preferred.
Thhere are also many wide stripes OF
wool and velvet of single dark shade OF
sphinx blue, plomb, bronze, lynx brown,
castor, or myrtle green, and these Will
be liked for their quiet tone and rich
fabric.
Among the popular contrast of colors
are brown with green, blue with red,
green with red, and blue with brown.
Mixtures of silk and wool are very
effective in the wide moire stripes of
silk with heavy diagonal wool stripes.
and this lie particularly handsome in
black goods, in the dark plomb, or lead
color, and in the gray-blue, which Is call
ed sphinx, a shade warmer than plomb,
for which merchants predict great pop.
ularity.
WOOL LACE DRESSES.
Wool laces are very largely imported
| for autumn use, and are shown in houn-
ces a yard deep to cover the entire dress
skirt as far as it is visible.
These laces are now made of the dur
able mohair, which is firmer than the
soft wool woven into such laces last sea-
son, the patterns are small and new, or
else they reproduce those of antique gui-
pure lace small scalloped design fin
ishes one edge which is to serve as the
foot of the skirt.
These flounces are sold in four-yard
lengths for the entire skirt, and are to
be made up oyer silk, wool, or satin in
plain round skirt. Such founces cost
from 81 to 81. Is yard, and are also sold
in shorter lengths Of one yard, or else a
yard and half to cover merely the front
and part of the sides of the skirt in COM
bination with fine woods, for the back in
drapery such as Thibet cloth, Henrietta
cloth, or the diagonal surges.
Every color is represented in mohair
colors.
The wool laces for trimming plain
wool corsages, are about inches wide,
cost from 90 to rs cents yard.
There are also pieced laces, of which
mantles are to be made over satin and
velvet.
Both small mantles and large wraps
will be worn of this lace, trimmed with
fur or pasSamenterie.
NOTES.
The newest fashion is to have the bod
ice of the plain fabric, and use the figur-
ured for trimming and on the skirt.
The newest hood for evening wear is
formed of pink silk covered with cream
lace and ornamented at the top of the
head and at the back of the neck with
ribbon bows. The ends are crossed, and
are thrown over the shoulders.
The current rumor is that bustles are
decreasing in size, still, all the latest
foreign plates show the dress held out as
though by shelf at the back.
Broche woolens are exquisite. Some
of these have the fiat tapestry stitches of
last year, while others are embroidered
by machine in raised frise loops, flowers
and fruits in natural colors. Matching
cloth comes, of course, in combination.
Never before has there been SO much
variety and SO much novelty. 1t would
seem as though manufacturers, in view
of the recent del=-==:on of trade, have
made superhuman efforts to stimulate
the taste, and open the pockets of buyers
to the last degree. At this season of the
year velvet and plush furniture should
be carefully examined, as the moth
worm is apt to deal unkindly with it,
thus causing great amount of damage.
Three or four skirts of MORE antique
of darker colors, garnet or peacock blue,
are trimmed with black lace, founced
with goods of the same. LEONE.