The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-10-01

Fall Materials. The New BOnnets
and their Novel Trimmings.

Fall Materials. - The New Bonnets
and their Novel Trimmings.
Certain ideas pervade the domain of dress;
given such and such ideas in millinery
and in materials, we are sure to see them.
AS for example, the canvas ribbons of last
summer, which served asa prelude to canvas
costumes, and when this fall we see wooden
ribbons as their successors, let us be sure
that wool dresses will have prestige; pecul-
lar prestige when wrought in canvas-like
texture, yet with coarseness of thread, max
ing amends for loose weaving. Broad wool
sashes touched with the same dull col
ored stripes shown forth in hat scarfs, are
brought out in dresses, and nothing can ex-
coed in style the coming wool costume with
scarf trimmed hat to match. Broad wooden
galoons in millinery, of ruglike thickness
and design, are also the prelude to thick
woods of indistinct patterns, and as prom
inence of beads upon hats and bonnets is
very great, SO will many stylish effects be
brought about by beads on dresses. Not al
ways the fine glittering jet, but large beads
set about fancifully, and here we see the
rosary beads, which, revelation in millin-
cry, will appear as well on costumes.
Old themselves, they become novel by nov
city of use, and with brownish standings will
woods Just mentioned will be in special de-
mand for
WALKING COSTUMES,
which, made short, will give opportunity for
an exhibition of the society lady's trim walk
ing boot, frightened by her tried and trusty
dressing, Buttons Raven Gloss. Plush will
enter largely into these costumes. Plush
bonnets are many; costumes where plush
appears, ditto. Too expensive, and too heavy
looking for the whole dress, this handsome
fabric will effectually serve as touches on
something less expensive or more generally
becoming. Rough bourette sprinklings on
wool will help to produce that heaviness at
present thought stylish, while thick loopings
in borders, sometimes woven in the goods
or set on in stripes, will be powerful expo
nents of leading fashionable idea. Succeed
ing to the cotton laces of the summer, we
see great quantities of wooden lace brought
out in shades harmonizing with materials.
They promise to be lavishly used for wool ma.
terials, while Irish wool lace in ecru will give
a change when similarly employed. Spanish
patterns will appear in silk laces that finish
more expensive goods, and handsome black
outfits will be adorned by French limitations
of Chantilly. This bringing forward of lace
as large element in the making of costumes
is probably the beginning of an ending tina;
will prove important, and where many rich
| possibilities may arise.
BoNNETs
are quite small, and as we are now tired of
term "capote" we say in place of it "Prin.
cesse." Close and small, plush made, velvet
made, or OF felt. The trimming .massed in
front, and bristling. Wings standing upright
breast feathers added to by stiff feathery
endings made of metal or wirestrung beads,
while if ostrich tips appear, they nod de.
family. But straight standing feathers, or
long narrow leaves stiffened out by glue
and beads are more often seen. Fine wire
strung beads are twisted into imitation ferr
and other leaves, and placed upright unite
with stiff looped ribbons. For while we notC
wooden ribbons as novelty, yet numerous
are the conservative ones of satin and velvet
or satin with picot edge, peculiar to this sea
son. Hats give room for considerable display
by pronounced trimming set in front OF
against the high crown, but there are large
importations of English walking hats ant
turbans. On all varieties, however, we OBJ
serve the favor shown beads and beading
Amber beads as large as medium sized but.
TONS and fiat, are set at regular intervals al
over; thickly beaded material is brought ou
for making galoons stiff with beads art
used in trimming, combined with beaded
simulations of foliage flowers, while the
favorite edging is a row of large beads
which correspond with others set ON in va
rious ways. Feathers are extremely fancifu
and artificial as they are fanciful. Nature il
not consulted, except perhaps in the case o
little humming birds that sometimes are Sc
in clusters of intrinsic beauty.
LUCY CARTER