The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-12
AUTUMN FABRICS.
The Latest Materials for Fashionable We
mans Dress.

The Latest Materials for Fashionable We
mans Dress.
The first ms tallmcnts 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 a great boon to the
wearer, as skirts Of dresses are now SO
generally lined and interlined that they
become too heavy for comfort even In
midwinter if made of weighty fabrics.
Plain colors. mixtures of two or three
colors, and clouded effects are among
the new goods. Small figures are pre-
terred to large. Narrow stripes length
wise, bayadere and diagonal, neat
checks or blocks, and some plaids are
N Dwn in dull and in bright colors,
Enough not in Scotch tartans. The pc
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 togctf.cr, ys:
scarcely heavier than summer goods.
Thus, the outside is of crepon, euckered
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 stutfs come in all the
new blue and green shades, in violet,
purple and in ruby and purplish reds.
The lengthwise crinkles of English
Grape 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 a black can
vas back. Some of these have small
tuc<s of 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 tucks, 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.
1t is rumored that Irish poplins are
20 be revived for winter dresses, espe-
cially for skirts to be worn with vari-
Gus waists in the way MORE 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 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 a smooth wool surface. Brown
grounds have silvery-blue dots. bronze
green is speckled with robin's-egz 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 bsya-
dere stripes. Serges and cheviots re-
appear in lighter weights tnsn any
ever before shown for winter gowns
The plaids have rough surfaces, vet are
woven like thin fannels or homespuns;
they are large irregular and Of rich dark
L.
ings generally come in soft WOODS. and
others partly of mohair which Is as
glossy as silk-Harper's Bazar.