The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-10-26
AMERICAN FASHIONS.

Dress Fabrics and Costumes Imported
for autumn and Winter
The first iGnpoftations Of autumn
wooiens promise Il season OF plain
goods in new shades and new weaving.
Solid eolors largely predorninate. and
are given novel effects By being woven
I'm stripes i'm most varied ways. as, for
instance, there are repped stripes al
ternating with diagonal stripes. corded
stripes with satin-inished stripes.
zigzag chuddah stripes with cash
mere twilIed stripes or arrnure
and bird d's-eve woven stripes with
those of Iengthxise reps or cords;
and these stripes are further varied In
widths. ranging from hair lines and
haif-ineh modest stripes to those more
bold and effective. from one TO three
inches wide. while clusters Of one kind
OF stripe are massed 70 form wide
stripes that alternate with solid stripes
OF third kind OF weaving. Many
hign-6nished goods are shown in plain
fabrics with the sill1en glossy surfaces
produced by closely woven twi1ls;
these will be found becoming TO
women of dark complexion, wh0
delight in luster, and have given
up dull rough stuffs, even though
of the finest qualities. Cashmeres
are given a siIken finish like that OF
Henrietta cloths, yet have no silk in
thens. and they are also woven in
stripes. and are strewn with large dots
that are made 10 look even more silky
than the groundwork. Plain Henrietta
cloths are imported entirely OF wool.
and are also mixed with silk in such
large proportion that the dealers call
them sasteen Henriettas. II is the ex-
perience of dress-malzfrs that these
mixed Henrietta cloths, even of the
finest wool and silk, will slip and fray
in the seams. and do not wear near as
well as the pure wool cashmeres. which
now also rival them In luster. Among
diagonal stufTs drap Alma is revived.
with its widely woven twill, and there
is great deal of rough camers-hair
and Of English serge in plain grounds
and in stripes. The soft fine chuddah
cloths for both house and street dresses
are made in France, but closely initiate
in weaving the genuine India stuffs-1
For winter costumes ladies' cloth Is
again imported in the light weights
introduced last year, and in all the
new dull colors.
Bordered costumes are largely inn
ported for autumn and winter. both Of
plain and striped wooIens. Cashmere
figured borders are on the richest
goods. and are Of great width. in palm
leaves and other India designs IN very
gay colers. and also in the gray and
quiet shades familiar in the borders Of
Paisley shawls. Many striped borders
are also along one selvaee of plain
woolens. and some of these borders
have silk woven in the stripes. Other
borders are ornbre or shaded. and still
others are entirely of repped silk A
wide selyage like that of nuns yelling
is the simple border Of many rough
surfaced wool goods. while novelty il
a border Of large plaids on plain solid
covered materials. Hair-striped fab
ries have very wide plain borders along
one seivage, and there are plain cloths
witH striped borders in dull eashmera
coIors. TinseI borders of CAV metallic
stripes are new on dull-colored wool
ems. Steel and silver borders and
stripes are especially handsome
CoIored stripes and plaids are shown
both separate and togetheri for instance.
there are fine silk and wool goods with
plaided stripes of great width alterna-
ting with plain stripes. and there ars
gay tartan plaid stripes on grounds OF
most quiet colors. Rough woolens 10
very large plaids nre considered stylish
in dark dull greens. and in combina-
tions of green with gray, or green
with brown. blue with brown. and blue
with purplish red shades. Indeed, all
dull-colored plaids are about to be re-
vived. -Harper' Bazor.