Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-22

are chary about exhibiting novelties
until the first of next month, when re-
turning tourists will wish to see them in
their freshness, enough has been shown
to give an idea of the predominating
styles of fabric. Many of the new goods
are bOrdered and the skirt has but one
seam, the material lying in such ample
folds as to enable one to idealize rather
more than heretofore the form no longer
plainly defined. The tact OF the mo-
diste is shown in these folds being caught
up here and there, giving a glimpse Of
the petticoat of silk that is beneath.
Many of the new weayes are of plain and
figured material matching each other
exactly in tone. The plain material is
to form the back of the skirt and the
waist, the figured effects to be used on
the plated fronts, front of waist, large
rolling collar, caps and cuffs to the close
sleeves. There is also q standing collar,
but rot half so high as those worn last
season.
Silk and cashmere are used in combina-
ton, and this is not iufrequentlv odd in
the designing. \ very uncommon ar
rangement is in combining blush green
and gray, the materials cashmere and
velvet. The skirt front has band of
green velvet with gray passementerIe
laid on it, and the back of the skirt is Of
rich, green velvet. The bodice has
yoke of passemeuterie land on velvet and
the cashmere from it forms a full bod
ice kept in place by a broad sash of green
velvet, high under the arms, passing
round the waist, rounded off at the back
till il descends in a point and loses itself
in the velvet folds of the skirt. The
sleeves have puff of the material at the
shoulders and band of the passemente-
RE below.
Stripes and plain is another variety
and is arranged in a striking costume by
a skirt with slight drapery at the back
and large plaits at the sides and on the
center front, the right side front of the
flower stripe, not more than twelve inch
es wide, and this crosses the waist line,
following up the front of the waist. and
finished at the shoulder by a point, be-
ing curved out around the neck low down
something IN the style of a guimpe waist.
The same width Is placed down the other
side of the waist, curved in the same
manner at the neck, one covering the
other on the waist from the bust down,
the under one branching off to the left
side. where it falls over the skirt to the
foot. Across the waist line in front is a
narrow belt of the PLAIN goods. The
sleeves are close fitting and finished by
stylish cuff of the stripe.
The princess of Wales has made gray a
distinguished color, and it is seen in ball
room, at dinners and receptions and on
The street. What might be called
model dinner dress is of silver gray Hen
rietta, trimmed with green velvet. The
silk skirt has q double row of narrow
knife pleating fastened at its edge, above
which is of strip velvet, in points, aud
outlined at the top and bottom with two
rows OF narrow silver braid. One end of
The sash, composed of the cloth, bordered
by deep fringe, is fastened at the left
hip, the other end just little to the
right of the center of the skirt. The two
ends are knotted in front, falling nearly
TO the feet. The corsage is cut with
priucesse back, falling undraped 10 the
feet The front opens over velvet vest
and is turned back with Directoire revers
of velvet. over the vest and down the
front falls a cascade of fiuted crepe lisse.
The sleeve is large at the top, forming a
puff at the shoulder, and the deep cuffs
and high collar are of velvet.
There seems to be a rivalry between
the triple cape and the scarf for autumn
use: the latter is frequently seen attached
to the dress. The material usually has