The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-09-21
FASHION WHISPERS.
Popular Corors and Combinations for
Fail ard Winter.

Popular Cofors and Combinations for
Fail ard Winter.
For visiting costumes In ths fall, plain
princes dresses are being made up, with
embroidery In self colors, but no beading
or metallic effects are employed upon the
velvet. The velvet must be severely rich
in itself ana moderate in it's training.
A royal blue cashmere has yoke Of
pongee silk. T. is worn with q little
shoulder cape OF beige cashmere. in three
flowers, each one scalloped; the top one is
button holed with blue silk ana Is 6 ) III
cred up quite closely to resemble epaulets
on the shoulders.
The fashionable light wraps for the
early fall will be in the still popular cape
STYLE consisting Of fiounce OF black lace
applied to narrow, deep yoke, the
points of which reach below the belt,
front and back The yokes on new mod
els are variously decorated. Some are
made of heavily corded net, with designs
like passementerie; others are OF bengal
inc richly braided.
Bold, aggressive patterns are promised
for the autumn dress fabrics. Spots big
ger than silver dollar, big stripes and
checks that take an eighth of a yard to
show will be worn-so they say Rough,
coarse stuffs will be the mode too. Some
OF the materials are of the texture of
blankets. Only half dozen yards would
be needed for a dress, as quite plain
skirts are likely to be the only kind worn
for some time to come.
Pretty things in note paper include a
pale pink and bright blue, also q deli-
cate green, with line of gold tracery at
the head and foot aud also on the envel-
ope. A faint silver design of scroll work
on a shaded pink and gray ground looks
as If it was seen through mist, but is
very effective when covered with writing
Noon weddings are greatly IN vogue, a
fashion borrowed from England.
Large velvet sleeves appear upon the
new bias plaided gowns Some of the
fresh plaids are beautiful in coloring, but
decidedly loud as regards the huge blocks
forming the design.
Jackets, as rule, are longer than those
worn for some time past. Novel features
are rows Of small buttons up the inner
seam Of the sleeve to the elbow, and but
tons for closing used with hooks.
Even the dresses of toddlers uncertain
oflocomotion brush the ground and raise
the dust, and many darling gets tum
bic and bruised nose because its fond
mann ma insists on carrying out the fash
ion to the letter.
The newest lingerie, made of white cam
brio, has black lace trimmings. The
mixture is attractive.
SEARCHED white underskirts are slowly
following white hosiery into forgetful-
ness. They go slowly. The cotton and
the linen petticoot. embroidered or laced
and founced. have long been fetch. but
the new ones of pongee and china crepe
and plain dark silks or canvesses. for
everyday wear, are slowly pushing aside
the old ones The silk muslin ones. en-
broidered in delicate flowers, are pretty
enough, in white or in colors, to be sue :
cessful rivals of the old.
Cloth and silk are again combined in
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derskirts are made of the wooden goods.
reversing the past fashion of many sea-
sons that put the silk underneath.
Braiding comes ready made for sleeves;
in the new jackets it may be merely in
epaulets and cuff pieces, or yofses.
A wool plaid dress is cut bias; the high
shoulder sleeves, the corslet and the
neck band are in plain serge that matches
the darkest shade in the plaid.
Bonnets and hats are as simple as the
new gowns, and are made to wear with
low hair, most OF them having something
dropping low on the coil at the neck-a
bow, wing and some Ostrich tips or q
bird.
Black stockings are most usually worn
for walking and with dark dresses but
for wear with dressy and light toilets
there are all kinds and varieties of pretty
stockings to match or correspond with
the shades of the dress and shoes. Some
with honeysuckles, and lilac ones with
different colored flowers. Some also have
lace let in up the front, some in white and
others in black lace
Tasteful wool gowns for walking, shop
ping and travelling are of otter, brown,
dark blue or black .camels' hair, made
with coat bodice that falls well over
the hips. evenly all around and is cut in
square tabs. A deep SHAWL collar forms
revers that taper to the waist line, or else
the front opens on vest of tan, cham
pignon, gray or other lighter cloth. Black
braiding is the trimming for these bodices
done in slight border along the square
tabs the collar and vest, with a heavier
mixture at the rop and wrists Of the
tapering sleeves. The skirt is in habit
shape or is more ample. with pleats down
the sides and back.
BLACK hats will be worn with almost
any Of the new gowns, as most OF them
have black trimmings. Black with gold
is the combination of the season. and
black with orange or Spanish yellow vel
vet is most generally becoming.
Clinging skirts ale retained with their
too great length at the back. Many
are quite STRAIGHT, with all their fulness
behind. while others are bias. and have
slight drapsry with small clusters Of folds
down the sides or across the hips in most
modest paniers.