Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-13
woMAN,s WEAR

Mask wells Of white net, with thick wovn
salvage that stimulates q hem and tueks, are
new and stylish beyond everything.
Green will be more than ever the wear IN
autumn silks and ribbon, and the gray and
bronze green shades easily first choice.
Feathers and ribbons viii trim fall hats
and the latter VIA have plain edges. with q
cord or satin stripe interviewer along it.
A very new fancy is the overdress cut from
soft wool, that is laid all over in fine fat
tucks, by consequence three ply all through
English women wear the universal blouse
with the frill outside the skirt, but the fash
Ion does not meet the approval Of the best
dressers on our side the salt water.
The Psyche knot, 50 called, is now as dis
tinctly passee as it was always reprehensi-
BILE; nevertheless it will be many a weary
day before we see the last OF its ferocious
ugliness-
Among the richest imported costumes are
plain woolens with deep cashmere borders
indeed, borders appear on nearly all the best
stuffs, and many of them show an interweav-
ing Of silk
Two paper weights, as unique as handsome
are big counterfeit seal with burlesque
coat-of-arrns on it, and a square and white
onyx shaped as box and with gilt rims
along its edges.
A skirt Of heavy muslin, founced up the
back and stiffiy starched, is worn BY many
who cannot reconcile Themselves to the nat
falling skirt--which is, however, far and
away more stylish.
lou hats rriV
Of black velvet ribbon and long black
feathers curling fat along the brim, are now
ready for the autumn country rambles of be
lated fashionabies-
For autumn wear there are shown dressing
jackets of white and cream flannel serge
and alpaca lined with bright silk, and with
collars and cuffs of matching velvet, or else
of Bulgarian embroidery.
New fall gowns from Paris show, many of
them, full undraped skirt, close clinging at
front, with bodice; la Josephine or Marie
Stuart, quaint close sleeves and loud Goa s
over richly embroidered waistcoats.
Cloaks, it is said, will be more feature of
the winter toilet than for years past, and
while their varieties are innumerable, they
all follow the general loose flowing lines of
ridicule.
All hat trimmings are placed far at the
back, and the amateur who can make her
chapeau when on look exactly as though it
was wrong side foremost, may hug herself in
the certainty that she has achieved the
height of style
Long pelisses made of big lowered rich
brocades arc no end stylish, but soon become
noted, so leave them to the women whose
gowns in number and variety proclaim that
Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed
like one Of these.
The picture girl affects for early fall wear
large round hat of fine black Milan, faced
with velvet, just family tip-tilted at one
side, and wound about with scarf of Brus-
sells or Spanish net, whose end fails straight
down to her waist.
The half seasons caprice is to trim straw
or felt hats, no matter what their color, with
jet black bi DIS, the more the better, and the
black and suede straws in aureoe shape are
faced with black velvet with fan pleating
Of lace next the face.
The picturesque damsel may venture upon
the hip jackets of velvet lacing in front over
loose vests of viii silk and with gold
slashed sleeves, but the commonplace one
had better wear only good silk or fine cloth,
well fitted and nconspicuously cut.
Nearly all the new fall stufYs show solid
colors, with stripes of different weaves, or
else have plain, lustrous surfaces that make
them a gosend - those dull bIunettes who
have been for so long smothered in loose
weaves and rough textures.-New York
Commercial Advertiser