Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-14
AUTUMN FABRICS.
The Latest Materials for Fashionable we-
 mans Dress.

The Latest Materials for Fashionable we-
 mans Dress
 The first installmcnts of new woolens for autumn dresses are received before summer is ended and commend them selves even at this early date by their exceedingly light weight. This light ness is feature of various goods--as camel's hair, lady's cloth. covert cloth and crepon-and is great boon to the wearer, as skirts of dresses are now SO generally lined and underlined that they become too heavy for comfort even in midwinter if made of weighty fabrics. Plain colors, mixtures of two or three colors, and c1ouded effects are enoog the new goods. Small figures are pre- ferred to large. Narrow stripes length wise, bayadere and diagonal, neat checks or blocks, and some plaids are shown in dull and in bright colors, though not in Scotch tartans. The pe- culiar blue called bluet appears in all materials, and there are many bronze shades, with green prevailing in some and brown in others.
 The newest materials are double stuffs, two fabrics woven together, yet scarcely heavier than summer goods. Thus, the outside is of crepon, puckered or in cross stripes, attached to back ground of entirely different weaving, which holds the puffy raised crepon design in permanent place. The back is usually black, and is in loose canvas weaving. These stuffs come in all the new blue and green shades, in violet, purple and in ruby and purplish reds. The lengthwise crinkles of English crape are very effective in colors over black canvas There are also wiry mohair stuffs as transparent as grena- dine or barege, applied in waves across from selvage to selvage on black can vas back. Some of these have small tucks of a contrasting color in each wave, so folded as to show merely thread of the color; one especially pretty, of golden brown, has gray in the waved tuclzs, while darker brown has pale green. Blue with gold, black with bluet, and black with yellow are also in these new stuffs. Silk-warp crepons for evening dresses come in very light colors, the silk waving across in festoons, or else in lengthwise stripes on grounds that are in straight long crinkles
 It is rumored that Irish poplins are to be revived for winter dresses, espe- cially for skirts to be worn with vari- ous waists in the way moire has been this season. English papers say that these stately fabrics are particularly admired by wealthy Americans who have visited the poplin factories and made various purchases, choosing among many a magnificent piece for court train, the ground of ivory white, the flowers of woven gold
 For tailor gowns are neat mixtures of silk and wool with tiny dots or stitches of silk of bright color showing on smooth wool surface. Brown grounds have silvery-blue dots, bronze green is speckled with robin's-egg blue silk, blue with red, and black with gold. Some small checks are woven in the new bronze colors in tweeds, and in other fabrics that have knotted silk threads. New bourettes have their rough threads forming slender baya- dere stripes. Serges and cheviots re. appear in lighter weights than any ever before shown for winter gowns. The plaids have rough surfaces, yet are woven like thin fannels or homespuns; they are large, irregular and of rich dark colors. Basket cloths and canvas weav- ings generally come in soft wools, and others partly of mohairs' which is as glossy as silk.-Harper's Bazar..T t's
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