Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-11-23
,.NiERiCAN FASHIONS.

Dress Fabrics ami Costumes Importr'
for Autumn and Winter.
I The first importations of autumn
woolens promise a season of plain
! goods in new shades and new weaving
Solid colors largely predominant, and
are given novel effects by being woven
in stripes in most varied ways, as, for
instance, there are repped stripes al
ternating with diagonal stripes, corded
stripes with satin-fnished stripes,
zlgzag chuddah stripes with cash
mere twilled stripes or armure
and bird s-eye woven stripes with
those of lengthwise reps or cords
and these stripes are further varied in
widths, ranging from hair lines and
half-inch modest stripes to those more
bold and effective, from one 10 three
inches wide, while clusters of one kind
OF stripe are massed to form wide
stripes that alternate with solid stripes
of third kind of weaving. Many
high-hnished goods are shown in plain
fabrics with the silken glossy surfaces
produced by closely woven twills;
women of dark complexion, who
delight in luster, and have given
up dull rough stuffs, even though
OF the finest qualities. Cashmeres
are given 4 silken finish like that OF
Henrietta cloths, yet have no silk in
thew, and they are also woven in
stripes, and are strewn with large dots
that are made to 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 satteen Henriettas. 1t is the ex-
perience of dress-makers that these
mixed Henrietta cloths, even of the
finest wool and silk, will slip and frav
In the seams. and do not wear near as
well as the pure wool cashmeres, which
now also rival them in luster. Among
diagonal stuffs drap d'Alma is revived,
with its widely woven twill, and there
Is great deal of rough camel s-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 tho genuine India stutfs
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 i'm
ported for autumn and winter, both of
n ai dc+pi
figured borders are on the richest
goods, and are of great width, in palm
leaves and other India designs in very
gay colors, and also in the gray and
quiet shades familiar in the purders OF
Paisley shawls. Many striped borders
are also along one selvage of plain
woolens, and some of these borders
have silk woven in the stripes. Other
borders are ombre or shaded, and still |
Others are entirely of repped silk. A
wide selvage like that of nuns yelling
is the simple border Of many rough
surfaced wool goods, while a novelty is
a border Of large plaids on plain solid
covered materials. Hair-striped fab
RIGS have very wide plain borders along
one selvage, and there are plain cloths |
with striped borders in dull cashmere
colors. Tinsel borders of gay 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 together; for instance,
there are fine silk and wool goods with
plaided stripes of great width alterna-
ting with plain stripes, and there are
gay tartan plaid stripes on grounds of
most quiet colors. Rough woolens in
very large plaids nre considered stylish
In dark dull greens, and in combina-
tons 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's Bazdr