St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23
Hints Of the Modes When the Leaves Be-
gin to Turn, Or Dresses for
Fall Wear.
Simplicity and Becomingness the Order of
the day--Pretty Fancies in
Trimmings.
New Things in Millinery--Hats and
Good wraps--Aphorisms on
Manners.
A Dozen Concise Household Sugges-
tions--SOme Good Recipes for
the Kitchen.
Fashions Forecast.

Despite the tendency toward the exagger-
alton in dress, moderation is used by women
of taste, and simplicity and becOmingneSs are
the order of the day. The adoption of the
matinee for neglge costumes is a pleasing
change from the Mother Hubbard wrapper.
which is really only suitable for wear in the
seclusion of ones room. Strong contrasts
seem TO be declining and harmony of design
and colOring are to be observed in the toll
cites of the best dressed women.
There is none of the accustomed fulfil
ness and looseneSS of dress this summer.
COrsages are as mOoth and tight as in cold
weather. The real discomfort is no greater,
though the aspect may be to ignorant OBJ
servers. Vests are universal; so are high
collars: and the way i'm which bosOmS are
laid out into ornamental beds and border
ings reminds one of floral gardening. In
corsages the vest and lapels appear along
with the choker collar. The material of
the waist is velvet and the vest is bro
caded satin. The effect is taut and chip
per. and the style has the advantage of be-
ing advantageous for fat girls. while at the
same time it is becoming to slim ones. In
trimming materials for
THE COMING FALL SEASON
velyets and pushes, both plain and fancy,
will be used for making and trimming the
hats and bonnets. In the imported piece
goods extremely fancy combinations are
shown and Sensationally named. para
doX' or Alfalfa is a mixed plush of me
dunn long pile, such as gray or other solid
color fer the ground. with white or ecru
threads woven in after Scrawley style.
''Parepie" is a plush with solid brown
ground, with narrow stripes OF different
cOlors half an inch apart. ''Signia" Is a
plain surface plush with short pile. There
are also narrow miXed-stripe plush effects
showing changeable colors.
Fancy feathers have again been brought
out in considerable quantities and in great
variety of styles and colors. many being
shaded and colored 10 match the materials
used in trimming. The latest are wings
mounted with small palm breasts, and sin
gle or double bird 5 heads at base. Parrots,
natural green and dyed i'm solid colors. are
seen in nearly all assortmentS. Ostrich
feathers will come in for
THEIR SHARE OF POPULARITY,
as it is impossible to trim hat or bonnet
full without the use of either plumes or
/ tips. A large variety of black. plain cOlOrs
and odd arrangements of fancy oddities
where ostrich figures conspicuouSly are now
shown by the modisteS.
The reign of the fanciful in millinery
may be expected TO continue, as lot of
! imported frames for hats and bonnets show
that the French designers have been exert
ing their ingenuity again in the production
of the unique and surprising. Among the
shapes in hats noticed are those of very tall
oval and of square peaked crowns, with the
brim narrow at the back and broadening
out and curled up in front and at the left
side. A shape with the conical military
crown indented at the top has the crescent
brim, much deeper in front than at the
back and curled up high. Among the latest
| in both bonnets and hats are trimmings of
scrim scarfS or ribbons. Pretty shade
hats are of imported Leghom braid-the
old-fashioned and comfortable fist-and are
trimmed with drapery of wide etamine rib
bon surrounding the crown, with a great
bow in 'front.' without assistance from any
other gaTniture. Recent dress hats differ
from those that have more generally OBJ
! tanned for the summer IN having the deiin-
lite steeple crown. with a projecting brim
careleSsly curled up in front