Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-10-14
FASHION NOTES.
what the Ladies are wearing This
season.

what the Ladies are Wearing This
Season.
Daytime sashes are now worn at one
side, and sometimes almost in front,
falling over one knee.
Colored alpaca and cotton rep under
petticoats trimmed with coarse washing
lace are much worn under light gowns.
Plain skirts mounted in deep pleats
behind, slightly draped in front, few
lifted on one side, will be the order of
the day.
Coats linger still in fashion, and a
light green one had much to commend
it, having a sort of white undergown,
opening on to a pompadour waistcoat.
Fringes will be used again, both in
| light Chinese designs of silk strands with
deep meshes at the top, and in heavier
grelots, partly of beads and partly of
silk, for mantle and cloak trimmings.
Sashes are much worn. They are
folded round the waist and then fall
Imply on the skirt. This is a thousand
times prettier than the stiff sashes 30
fashionable little time since.
Tailor gowns are still made with coat
sleeves for the reason that the cloth is
too heavy for full sleeves, and would be
too bulky in dress that requires rather
severe style for its outer garment.
Those who have any court waistcoats
lying by, such as were worn years ago by
men. should utilize them. They went
cut of date at court when gentlemen's
new regulations were issued, allowing a
simpler style Of raiment in velvet or
plain cloth.
| Extremes meet, and this will be more
than ever the case next season, for two
fabrics in highest favor will be camel
hairs and mohairs-the most and the
least lustrous - the crispest and the
softest-of all the materials for street
and general wear.
| Long cloaks for autumn days are made
of soft twilled woods with black broche
borders on colored grounds, or else
broche figures of great size-vines,
leaves, arabesques or cones-all over the
fabric in black, or in darker shade of
the color of the ground.
For morning wear, with the large hats,
the hair must be worn in coils and heavy
plaits, placed low and entirely covering
the nape of the neck, or else in ringlets
of different lenths, floating loosely and
gracefully over the neck. At the Cop of
the head the hair may be fastened with
a tortoise shell ornament.
Kid is used for the background OF many
new trimmings, white, tan and light
suedecolor being wrought with steel or
gilt beads, and cut in slender points or
else open diamond-shaped bands of tan
kid form wide galloons, on which are set
squares Of dark velvet, making very
handsome trimmings for cloth gowns.
One of the principal tests of the taste
and elegance OF q costume is the way in
which colors are handled in combin.
atoms. This is especially true of this
autumn's costumes, in which some oil
the associations of colors are peculiar
Gray and cream are used together, and
lmignonette green with mastic or putty
color. Chsmois and seal brown together
are not unfamiliar.
Tinsel has boen the fashion this year
and is likely to continue; but, during the
winter and autumn, gold threatens to be
as we'll worn as silver. Some very ex.
lquisite front breadths on white and lighl
shades are worked in gold, with huge
set pattern in gold, quite half a yard
being required to show it off. In others
rich silks are interthresded with tinsel,
and have small tinsel motifs scattered
all over.
Among the many charming and re.
cherche toilets is handsome dinner OF
tea robe Of unique design. It is of rich
red satin in the new Eiffel shade, EN-.
broidered with golden butterflies and
other designs, made In oriental sty le,
loose sleeves, with undersleeves of W bite