The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-10-29
FASHION NOTES.

FASHION NOTES.
Redingote costumes will prevail dur
ing the autumn and winter
More novel than one box plat down
the front of the skirt is one down each
side.
The fashion of wearing white at the
throat Is not SO prevalent as it was in
the spring.
Alpaca AMI mohair fabrics are being
made into very smart toilets for house
and street wear.
The dashins plaid silks will be
much used this fall for waists to be
worn with plain cloth skirts.
Mohair, grass linen AMI fancy taft
feta silk form the three most popular
dress fabrics worn this season.
Underskirts and slight draperies
have appeared upon some of the French
dress models designed for next season.
1t is quite safe to have any silk
gown, or light wool designed for
early autumn wear, made with RULED
skirt.
Some very elegant plaid silk blouses
are beng devised by fashionable mo-
distes to wear with tailor made cos
tunes.
Plaids are very fashionable, and will
be all the fall. They are now made
in cottons and silks and every variety
of gauze.
Belt clasps and buckles of silver are
seen in several new designs and pat
terms, including the filagree work that
used to be so fashionable.
Pretty dresses for afternoon and
evening weIr Mt fashionable resorts
are made of the soft, light pineapple
silks so popular this season.
Black jet serpent bracelets that go
around the arm three times are Euro.
pean novelty introduced here. With
the short, pulled sleeves they are very
effective.
The latest in sleeves is n modern.
lied bishop, which is full from the
shoulder to Che wrist. 1t has linina
of fibre chamois to retain its graceful
contour.
The new skirts are not especially
heavy. They are interlinel with hair
cloth for several inches, and some of
them have II light, flexible wire insert
ell in the hem.
a blackcloth suit is novel and
handsome, and the skirt is original if
1t shows some attempt ut draping-
very slight, 1T is true, but conspicuous
because of its novelty.
1t is confidently predicted that
boomers for bicycle wear will be
short-liyed. The skirt to the ankle
and high, buttonel shoes or over.
CATERS are to he the costume of tho
future
is rumored that Parisians are like.
~ to make considerable change in the
size of sleeves by the time that heavy
wraps become necessary. For the an
tumn season, however, sleeves will re.
tain their very full appearance, most
of the fullness showing about the ell.
bows, and more or less fiat in effect on
the top of the arm.
Yellow dotted muslin mounted over
yellow silk makes pretty garden
party gown, with white Valenciennes
lace to trim the rulflss and Vandvk,
collar of yellow batisto. Yellow rib
bon forms the belt aud sash en- Is i'm
the back, while the collar btnI is
OF blue mnuyc velvet, giving the gown
n very French appearance.
Some of the newest capes are fin
ishod with sailor collar ending in
polntedrevers down the front. Others.
shaped with seams that are covered
with rcd gimp, have rolling Stuart
collar Some of tlfe' capes are made
OF silk seal plush, tho collars trimmed
with nstrakhan, leaving n narrow bor-
der Of tho plush, about one inch
wide.
a change in the cut OF our gowns.
which seems imminent and originated
in Paris, is the long shoulder scam.
which is slowly but surely paining
ground. At present the wide collars
disguise the tendency, but by the time
they have had their day we will awik-
en- to the fact that the old-time ex.
tended shoulder seam. with all its dis
comfort, has been revived
IT is quite the Custom for many
ladies' to go out for spin on their
/ wheels IN hour or so before sundov,.
\ starting with their backs to the sun.
/ BJ the time they are ready TO start for
home the sun is ont of the way. AMI
thoy are spared tho necessity of n
burned-up complexion and the need of
cold cream aud perhaps day indoors
to recover from the effects of the sur =
scJrchin9 rays.