Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-10-10
NO. A..
FASHION NEWS AND NOTES.
Written for The Herald ba" Leone. .
NEW MATERIALS.

NEW MATERIALS.
The materials for autumn and winter
wear. are already displayed on the coun.
tiers of our dry goods stores. They are OF
MANY varieties, and harmonious blend
ings of rich bright shades, and fancy
for rough-faced fabrics. In Paris the
momentary fancy is for stripes. Pekin
stripes, fancy stripes, plain stripes. mar
row and broad stripes in every possible
combination of color and material.
The color of the season is bronze, or all
the bronzes, in brown. copper and green.
There is also new sapphire in combina-
ton with copper zink, in. brocades.
The new reds are dark, with russell
tints, like autumn leaves.
Tinsel is no longer popular for ordina-
nv dress trimmings and bonnets. but lie
being more largely used for evening robes
and wraps ana IN the smaller articles OF
the toilette. Many handsome fans and
hand-screens are decorated with it. The
tinsel is put on in arabesque and fanci-
full designs, and the edges of such fans
have full feather trimmings surround
ing them.
Pearl embroidery trims many of the
newest white satin evening dresses the
embroidery is usually accompanied by
lace of fine quality. which is also en-
broidered.
Gloves are being made of Russian leath-
er !; the color of the gloves is not so red
as the natural shade of the leather but is
dyed in variety of sober tints they
have three thick rows of stitching up the
hand. Ladies have taken to them cspec-
tally for riding and driving, but they
are also worn with walking and travelling
1,.ra HI nd
effectually protect the hands.
GENTLEMEN's ovERcoATs.
Gentlemen may be interested in know
ing that advices from fashionable head
quarters state that the fall overcoat this
year will have fly breast, be of soft
goods lined with silk, and the fashionable
coat in point of length will scarcely touch
the knee. The melton and pinch-check
worsted cloths will all be worn by fash
able young men. The little jacket over
coat, which frequently revealed the tails
of the dudes dress coat in New York last
winter, has been turned down as too
dizzy and minute to be any protection.
What the clothing men expec. to sell
most of in the line of winter overcoats
is straight long garment of moderately
heavy cloth, with a cape for the shout
ders. This coat buttons close up to the
neck, and reaches within six inches of
the heels. 1t was brought out last season
but was not generally worn. The New
Market coat will remain in style for long,
slim men, and the straight single-breast
ed heavy coat of medium length, is al
ways worn. Large stocks of foreign
ready-made coats have arrived from Par
is, are distinguished by the names of
Prince Charles. the Linster, Brighton,
and Killifat. There is nothing to distin-
guish the Killifat coat from Buffalo Bills
wrap except that it will be worn by
slender foot citizens"
In undercoats the four-buttoned cuta-
way will be used on semi-dress occasions
The Prince Albert will be used where a
cutaway is not quite the thing while for
business the single and doubled breasted
jacket will be worn. The dealers say the
styles are becoming better, as well as
more becoming, as the season advances.
Velvet collars will be worn ON over
coats.
Sack overcoats are cut longer and not
SO shapely,
The flat scarf is still favored in neck
wear.
Derby hats in black and brown are the
most fashionable colors the latest shows
a fine full shaped crown, between a
round and fiat shape. The brims have a
wide roll, and are we'll curled.
Fashion DEGREES that pantaloons should
be worn wider, but the best dressers do
not take kindly to them.
Silk hats are worn higher in the crown
and straighter. The brim is wide and
well rolled. There are two heights, the
lower is favored by young men.
Inlaid buttons, hand made, of horn and
wood, are popular.
Buffalo Bill horn buttons highly pol
ished, are also fayorite.
Broad and medium diagonals are used
for coats and vests, with trouserings in
broad checks and stripes, matching the
plain colors.
The fine homespun and cheviots of the
McGregor and Blarney, are worn as bust
ness garb which fact will account for SO
much bldraey in business.
Black is the leading color in hosiery.
The days of flounces are no more.
Among French jacket models are those
showing extra front pieces sewed on to
the shoulders, and ending in front in
very long points that are to be knotted
gracefully below the stylish Vandyke
collar of velvet which graces the neck of
the jacket the ends to some of the scarfs
are richly embroidered.
Short jackets and redingotes are equal
ly popular.
Green in the softest shades of rereda
and olive will be worn this autumn.
New designs in jewelry are unique and
beautiful.
The high hat is still at the top of the
pile.
The new dress is not out yet to any
great extent. LEONE.