St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-08

has the entree of the importers offices in
large dry goods houses in New York it is
not a difficult task to ascertain what will
probably be worn and what will surely be
imported. Manufacturers on the other side
keep us advised beforehand of what they
are preparing for next seasons wear.
ENGLISH STYLES WILL CONTINUE
to rule for outdoor suits. English cloths
will again be imported in light and heavy
weights for tailorS suits. Checks, plaids,
bars, stripes and inch-square blocks will be
seen on these cloths in artistic shades of
tan, brown and dark and pale blues, con-
trasting with reds olives and sky yellows.
By English cloths | mean cheviotS as well
as cloths. rough-surfaced as well as smooth
fabrics. Black and white mixtures in
checks, bars and stripes are also very pop
ular with the producers. and they, of
course represent the wishes of the con-
sumers. Basket and diagonal, armure and
crape-woven cloth will also be seen among
fall importations. One of the prettiest color
combinations proposed in these new goods
is of Chartreuse green and pigeons blood
ruby. These. with other bright, contrast
ing colorS, are much priced in baSket-wOven
wool stuffs. The wool frize goods are also
in preparation, new designs and new colors
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new and last seasons productions. Squares
of silk plush will be seen on these new frize
fabrics; also. messy, velvety, boucle and
bourette effects in new designs. The block
goods of this class are illuminated with
bourette stripes and lozengeS in Oriental
colors of soft rich tones Plush and velvet
will be again in vogue, and will do duty as
parts of silk and wool costumes. Among
the pluSheS are beaded ones
THE DESIGNS ARE NOVEL
And frequently artistic, but the fancy is
mostly for crosswiSe stripes of treble rows
of iridescent beads, with alternate stripes
of plush of the prevailing color of the
beads Very lovely are some of the sam
pies of fabrics in this grade, composed of
alternate Bayarde stripes of gros grain and
plush in contrasting dull artistic tones of
color, soft chocolate with rose pink, dull
red with olive. and dull blue with ruby
red These goods are for visiting cos
tunes, and will, for that purpose, be COM
bined with plain gros grain or faille and
silks, plain and watered, for watered silks
will certainly be revived for the next sea-
son. Among the novelties are those in
barred effects. The corduroys and corde-
rineS will not be exploded. Plaid velvetS
will also appear on our New York dry
goods counters in the fall, combining many
soft cOlorS and tones. White surahs, Satins
duchesse, rhadamade, and de Lyon will
not be thrown aside, but the popular silk
fabrics for the coming season will be gros
grain or repped and watered silks. When
not plain these silks will be striped few
showing the lasting popularity of broche
effects in having the brocaded stripes, al
ternating with watered or gros grain silk
or plain satin.
TO RETURN TO THE SEASIDE PRESENT.
Il said to male gossip: 1.-The reason
there is such loud display of diamonds,
silks. pug dogs and uncovered neckS here is
that the people here have just come into
fortunes that were heaped up so quickly
they have had no time to get used to them
Is that it?"
you've partly struck it," said my mas
culine gossip; ''but. that is not the whole
truth. There is a considerable class here
living in borrowed finerY. There are fami-
lies all around us whose silk dresses, dia-
monds. carriages, pug dogs. and everything
else that they are making a show of, are
all hired for the season. They are down
here to marry their daughters. They have
got plenty of money. but they live over
their shops in the meanest parts of the city,
and such fnerY as this would be out of
place there and would make them ridiculous
among their friends, but now that daugh-
ter has reached marriageble age the whole
family rigs itself up in borrowed splendor
and comes down here to put the girl on the
market"
That was pretty rude masculine way of
putting it, but | soon found out that it had
truth in it. These silly mothers 60 to
great lengths to catch beaus for their girls.
mir 10 1D 10,
in dresses as low cut as possible, and then
let them sit around in the Railways and
parlors to be ogled by the dudes Upon
my word, have seen the great parlor here
filled with decollete dresses on mammas
and daughters.
| GU know all the stories there about arti-
| ficiality in wOmen's make up, and about
the unhappiness in married life that is apt
| to follow bridegroom's discovery that his
wife can take herself all to pieces and pin
and strap all the pieces together again.
Really, L think it is time
THOSE SILLY JOKES
were shelved, for there has been a remark
able change in the women-at least, along
the Atlantic coast-in the last few years.
l used to see hundred that | thought re-
sorted to artificial help to give their figures
the pretty curving gracefulness that
should accompany feminine proper
tons, to every one that I see
nowadays. The truth is it is getting the
other way. l don't know why it is.
whether it is that we are learning better
and better how to live, whether the craze
for dinner parties and foreign restaurants
and hotel life, and all that sort of thing, is
is doing it, or whether the thin folks are
all dying OUTPUT certain it is that fat men
and corpulent women are growing very
familiar objects wherever I go. Pll war
rant there are thousand women in this re-
sort to-day who measure between forty-two
and fifty-tve bust measure, and upon whose
protruding forms it would be more or less
possible to play game of cards.
But, at any rate, there is certainly nc
necessity for most of the young men who
engage themselves to girls down here to
make any poisoning error about the phys
ical substantially and genuineness of their
adored Dulcneas. Belle, in Fin
| Quirer.