The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-20

miiliners investing very extensively in
feathers, but dressmaRers are buying Them
as we'll.
Inc leather boas and the feather neck
trimmings, which were fashionable last
spring, are still more fashionable this fall.
ana are seen IN still greater varieties.
An extremely pretty evening dress,
mhlch was designed for early fall wear at
Lenox, was made on a French model of
black lace over blue. The waist was cut
extremely decoliette, and there were no
sleeves at all.
10 the top of the bodice was gathered a
very full yoke of black tuIle. which was
brought up high around the neck and tied
with an invisible ribbon. Covering the
I Ii hlgh about the neck almost under
tne ears. there was thick heavy ruiiie of
plack ostrich feathers. The woman who
wore 1t was blonde, and the ostrich tins
made beautiful frame for her face. She
looked as If she might have stepped out of
the Old pictures that we so admire when
We come across them Unexpectedly in
some OF the old picture galleries.
Feathers are to be used largely on man.
ties as well as on gowns.
An entire novelty will be the ostrich
feather sleeves, which bid fair TO be even
more popular than the fur sleeves. They
are made by stitching ostrich feathers ali
over foundation so closely that the
foundation is not at all visible-only the
feathers are seen.
A lovely and startling cloak recently con-
structed after this fashion is of dark red
cloth. Around the neck is very broad
fluffy collar of ostrich tips, which sets
very high in the back and surrounds the
wearer's head like huge ruff. Down the
front there is q smaller stitching of feath-
ers. But the most startling thing about
the cloak are the sleeves which are entirely
lOnp hi1pE I.sl
evenly in rows; one row overlapping the
other, so that at first glance one does not
notice that the coat has feather sleeves.
AT the elbow the feathers are put on so
lngenlously that they curve around, max
ing a graceful pretty turn to the arm of
the wearer. Such a coat is, of course, too
nlSh priced to become very popular and it
does not yet appear that it can be produced
In cheap imitation.
Inc early fall shapes in hats are not as
yet specially attractive The most popular
one Is modification of the sailor hat
For some reason, not entirely known to
any one, the sailor hat holds its own upon
all states and conditions of women. Young
ana Old, big and little, wrinkled and
smooth, are possessed of desire to wear
sailor hat The fall sailor is called bon
net or capote. 1t is merely reproduction
ana a reduction of the summer sailor
mere IS the same crown and the same
Drlm, only the former is cut down so that
1t barely covers the top of the head, and
the brlm is so narrow that it does not pre-
tend even to shade the hair
Some one has brought forward the criti-
clsm that, even without trimming, these
new sailor hats might easily be mistaken
for dolls hats. And, indeed, it is so, for
the brlm Is not over half an inch wide
The most extravagant of these hats show
only an inch brlm. They are set little
back on the head, and appear somewhat
comes used to them. All the fall hats are
very eccentric, and may be described as
decided novelties. Ribbon seems likely to