The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-26
A FEW FALL FASHIONS.

Cashmere overdresses will be worn with plush,
velvet and striped skirts.
Gray gloves ara worn with black toilets They
are embroidered with black.
Black and white materials of all sorts are in
favor for the present season.
Yokes of velvet are a feature of silk dresses
for autumn and winter wear
Ribbon remains in favor for trimming
dresses, and is used for sashes, belts, bews and
loops.
Sashes Of wooden material. corresponding to
the dress with which they are worn, are trimmed
with embroidery or fringe.
White lace jabots are worn with high bodices
and are fastened with gold or jeweled pins ar
ranged according to the dictates of the wearer
Bodces and overdresses will be as varied as
the fabrics of which they are made. In many
of the costumes a total absence of drapery is
noticeable, except at the back, where it hangs
in full straight folds. The back drapery is de
rigueur. even if the skirt be Quakerike in it's
plainness elsewhere.
Travelling dresses this season are carried to
great perfection. They are simple, elegant in
style, beautifully made and fitted. and arranged
and draped with regard to comfort and convent
ence as well as stylish effect In pattern materi-
ais the colors for these are mostly subdued, and
the designs not large.
Elaborate coiffures, arranged high on the head
are still very fashionable. Though the close
classic style of hair Undressing, which admits Of
but little decoration, is again in growing favor,
as it usually is when autum weather approaches
the high couture prooves cooler and more COM
Portable for the sultry season.
For autumn and winter, combination in cos
tunes will be as marked feature as in the past
season. Skirts will be trimmed with bands cut
from woven material, and arranged in a variety
OF ways. except when the drapery covers them,
in which case they will be plain or edged with a
single band of fur or trimming narrow foot
plating or band of feather stitching
The new fall wrappings challenge admiration,
and the styles are of the most varied and mixed
description showing an indescrbable blending
of visite. corsage jacket, mantle and peleriue
One of the favorite jackets is short and very
close fitting in the back the skirt portion lying
fiat, with, in many instances, no postillion The
fronts are double breasted with usually rolling
collar. The sleeves are close coat shape.
The novelties in gloves this fall are colors dear
to the heart of ali French women, namely, all
delicate tints Of dove gray, pearl and mauve
These many importers offer in preference to the
long favored tan and beige shades The latter
however, are still highly popular with large
autumn tints in these begin with pale chamois
dark ecru and yellow russell for deeper tints.
Black lace dresses over satin foundations will
be the rage for the next two seasons before u.s.
as new qualities OF lace (both black and whte)
are opened which surpass anything in the line of
fancy laceS that any market in the world ever
exhibited. and these at prices before unheard Of
In point desprit marquise, Chantilly, and Span
ish designs are nets, with flowers to match, that
rival in delicacy and fineuess the richest of real
laces of other days costing ten times the amount
of the new patterns.
Some of the beautiful lace dresses of newest
make show a satin skirt of four full breadIhs
the lower edge scaloped. Above this is the deep
lace founcing. artisticaly arranged The round
ed satin edge falls over pleated lace founce
three or four inches deep and beneath this again
is knife-pleated frill of the satin. set on very
full and in most cases is still another lace bala-
yeuse, sewed firmly to the under side of the skirt
facing close to the braid on the edge. Pie waists
are pointed front and back. laced behind, short
sleeved, and draped la nun, with folds Of lace
over the chest.