The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-09-29
FASHIONS FOR AUTUMN.
MATTERS OF l.iyEL!- INTEREST TO THE
FAIR SEX.

MATTERS OF l.iVEL!- INTEREST TO TIL
FAIR SEX.
Novelties IN E!nts. and Odd f'et Becoming Bon
ue;s-somctlsiag Acw IN :kE.tinS. Etc.
New gootls for early fall wear con
tinuc to be displayed daily and present
number of novel fabrics, some of which
arc as brilliant in color shadings as the
richest tints seen in the autumnal foliage.
In all wool fabrics many quiet tones are
shown, varying with stripes with dashes
of color. In Paris plaids and checks
promise to be the latest choice to COM
bine with plain materials, but here
stripes appear to DC the most popular.
One striking feature in the fall modes is
the extreme ssmannishness' displayed in
the styles. This is not altogether new,
but this season promises to be carried to
a greater extreme than ever before. The
question of becomingress to the wearer
is not considered. Fashion is so potent
that there is rarely any discrimination
exercised in the choice of what to wear.
However, if the style is antagonlstlc to a
refined and conservative taste, 1t Is a
trihe modified if countcnanced.
An admixture of tints IS to be decided
ly fashionable this coming season. By
slow degrees the universal adoption of
black and dark tones is being given up,
which has made so many social gather
ings Of late years SO gloomy of aspect.
Excellent coloring is displayed in coarse
interpleated basket cloths-blach, white,
red and brown interr1ixed-and in the
Alexandra cloths with boucle stripes
red, yellow, blue and red, tiecked. Other
woolens are in plain colors and also with
tufted stripes, which, placed horizontal
ly and perpendicularly, form check.
Then there are cloths with spots between
the stripes. Plain material comes in the
same shade to combine with these in
costumes. Zebra cloth is solid, plain
and striped in such mixtures as gray and
blue, blue-brown and green. Partisan
fashions have always certain following,
so some tweeds have been brought out
with large plaids of blue, brown and
red
Serge, which has hitherto been con-
sidered q plain material, is now advanced
to decorative fabric, with broad velvet
and chenille stripes. \ very beautiful
cloth displayed is of a petunia shade,
with a very broad stripe, quite quarter
of yard across, in plain and fancy frize
velvet, showing convolvuluses in shades
of petunia "a red purple with leaves
twining around stripes Of dark and
light tone. This material is very costly,
and only appropriate for handsome
carriage of visiting toilette.
WHAT'S NEW n sRIETING.
It is always difficult to find anything
new in skirting, but the winter petticoats
will be remarkable for their brilliant
coloring. The perpendicular stripes are
two inches wide, in red, yellow, black,
white and gray. Some Of these have a
line OF herring-bone weaving beside each
stripe in yellow. Most luxurious are the
cardinal satin petticoats, lined with fan
rel, with very little elderdown between
the two thicknesses. These are ex-
quisitely quilted in fine diamonds with a
handsome border, the edge finished by a
pleating of satin.
Pure wooden fabrics in shades Of leath-
er and biscuit, with tiny specks in a
darker color, form some of the prettlest
demi-salson costumes; the skirt is pleated
in rather wide box pleats, each one orna-
mented at the edge with an applique en-
broidered design of Indian or Persian
character. The costume is completed by
q tunic and jacket, or by q polonalse
fastened diagonally from the left shoul-
der under band OF applique embroide-
~, continued round the light side, which
is draped like a rounded panier. The
left side forms a long trnic draped with
pleats under the embroidered band
edging the right side, and falling in a
long point a little to the left of the
centre, and draped again far back on the
left hip under bow of wide ribbon.
The back breadths form pleatel and
pulled drapery, bordcred down the sides
and round the edge with an embroidered
applique band.
Many novelties arc daily appearing in
millinery, each new bonnet or hat being
more eccentric than its predecessors, for
odd styles are certainly the most popular
at present. The latest Partisan novelty
is the ''pinc cone" hat, in perfect imita-
ticn of a gigantic fir cone. This hat is
always trimmed with ostrich plumes or
tulle of the hue of the pines. Many Of
the prettiest bonnets are composed of
crepe; even those intended for the win
ter season are composed of this fragile
material. Of course they have an inner
lining of thin silk and will be reserved
more especially for evening, afternoon
teas and reception wear.
RED THE FAyoRITE COLOR
Red is fayorite color for everything.
It has been popular in Paris for the past
six months and now promises to be
equally fashionable here. It requires
time for Americans to become accus-
toned to decided novelties, but when
they do the extreme of using colors
proniscuously is generally adopted and
this will likely prove the case with the
bright color that is popular; beautiful
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