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

things, unless one is able to afford a mill
liner in Paris, a dressmaker in London
and a costume designer in America.
You haven't any of these things, my
good woman, but what you have got is
plenty of common sense, pretty manners
and style about you in the way of wear
ing your clothes that makes you the peer
of any woman who depends for her style
upon her milliner and ner modiste.
You are somewhat limited in funds, too.
That Is, you have certain amount which
must serve you during the fall and winter
for clothing And you feel that you must
be cautious before making the first expen-
ditures.
Now, take word of advice from one who
has studied the earliest autumn models,
and who is telling you something that
may be laid down as a millinery gospel.
Do not be in a hurry to buy fall shapes
in hats or fall designs in dress goods be-
fore the first of October, or better still, the
middle OF October, because the fall styles
that are going to be fashionable through
November and December have not yet de-
clared themselves. The windows are full
of hats that look very bright and fresh
and pretty, because they are new. and the
store counters are piled with dress goods
that seem to you the very type of all that
is fashionable, just because they are heav-
Ter than the ones that you have been wear
ing and may be little different in design.
But be wary about purchasing for
week or two, because these early fall fash
ions are like the early spring fashions,'
They seldom prevail throughout the sea-
son, and unless you have a nice purse full
of money you find yourself in a few weeks
with something that you don't want. If
we lived in England, you and L, We would
find ourselves wearing our straw hats
until the weather is very cold. Clad in a
skirt trimmed with fur, fur-topped boots, a
skin jacket and fur gloves, we would find
ourselves sallying forth with straw hat
on by way of head covering
We wouldn't wear our straw hat as we
had been wearing it in the summer. 1t
would be altered somewhat, although it
would be the same hat.
Suppose we had been wearing little
open work straw bonnet that set quite fiat
to the head and was fastened on with Jewel
headed pins. And suppose that at the
back of the little hat there had been bunch
of colored tulle and spray of gay flowers.
We would take the tulle off entirely.
and would also remove the flowers. In
the place of the former we would bunch
ribbon or silk to match the fall costume
which We proposed wearing, and in place
of the flowers We would fasten small
wings, ostrich feathers, or head or two,
or any variety of curled feathers.
If we had other hats, We would treat
them in much the same way, so that the
fall would find us with n completely new
stock of hats, which would have the merit
of costing very little, matching our clothes
and would be such that we could give
them away just as soon as We made up our
minds to buy winter hats. BY and by.
when we should know just what we
wanted, we would invest in felt hats vel
vet hats, ribbon hats, satin hats, or what
ever kind would please our fancy, and. by
this course of action, we would manage to
break up the long stretch between now
and Easter week, during which time one
is, according to the American idea.
Obliged to wear a heavy hat.
Every kind of plumage is to be fashion
able. Strange to say. the most fashionable
of all is to be the kind of feathers which
one finds upon domestic fowls, such as
chickens, turkeys, ducks and the like.
Chicken wings are specially sought, be-
cause they are broad, and can be fastened
at the back of the hat in a very chic way.
These wings can be obtained directly
from the market-man, who will be glad to