The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1899-09-26


selling freely for skirts. - wear with
plain cloth Jackets. Automobile is co,or
which has found a great deal Of favor In
Paris. and now has come 10 stay In Amer
lea. The jacquard weaving Is still the
mode, fieeey and rough on the surface,
showing a sort Of broeade: and an
Amazon coating with black spots and
some shot reps are the chief novelty
Of the moment. A great deal of black Is
to be worn with contrasting eolcrs and
eolOred popIins with black silk stripes.
in castor brown. On some OF
the Cashmere grounds the spots are N
marked contrast, for example, rose and
fame color. gray and blue green and
black, or green and white. and stone on
white. A new make of CASHMERE in black
has openw0-k lace stripes, with an inter
woven color beneath like wool. Another
novel fabric has a mixture of woIl and
silk in the proportion of ninety-seyen OF
silk and three OF wool, ard s1Ele of the
stripes show a tinseled effsct. Vivid-col-
Ored cashmeres are woven with black
chenille spots. We are in a measure le-
turning TO the art colors. Light blues.
Washed-OUt greens, and a ce-taIn tone Of
magenta are powerful rivals ID the p1s-
tel shades. and. light though they are,
have a folio wing in the clothes preparing
for winter
We must bear in mind that chenille has
very important place in tue autumn
fashions. Many of the cloths nave stripes
of chenille, and one Of the novelties is q
MO al aH a. O. e
fects, good looking, but possibly not coed
wearing. Another chenille cloth in the
weaving is closely allied to astrakan.
White chenille spots appear on red, and
red chenille or black grounds and on
vivid green. while the fancy figured silks
also display chenille spots. 4 gJol deal
of white corduroy is to be woSn, mary
reps and many robes, and black and COL
ored stuffs with ribbon embroidery. "a
great feature is the thick make CT
crepons. They are mixture of WOO! nd
silk, and this in the weaving gives them
a blistered effect. The tones are brown
and prune, a color that is coming to ike
fore, and likely 10 establish itself. 10
gether with blues. resedas, and water
cress greens.
A Forecast In Furs.
We are so tremendously previous nova
days; the moment never sUffices. Very
often 1 am reminded of the similitude We
bear to that strange creature, the Shark,
in Lewis CAROLS funny poem. If you
remember it frequently took breakfast at
afternoon tea and dined IN the following
day. Can you see the connection? l trust
so; 1t is delightfully."- clear 10 me. But We
f1Il a ha hilf
end and aim with regard to these would.
this season. seem to be the securing Of
horizontal effects; velvet and fur super
posed. or fur and lace. Then with peltry.
such as chinchiila, sable, mink, &c, all
qualities, in fact, that show strong mark
ings, the shading will frequently be found
running round the figure. / am not as
yet disposed to criticise freely as to the
successful elegance or the reverse of this
procedure, but it has to be chronicled in
that IL is novelty.
One needs such immense caution in
these days of enterprise. 1t is never quite
wise to hear and imagine: one must see
and live for space for the novelties of
the hour 70 realize their value; and the
more pronounced and impossible they be,
the more necessary is it to withhold
undreamt of in the philosophy of those
outside the pale of the MODESTO world,
ways and means will be found to render
the worst possible, and possible persua-
sively beautiful
Horizontal Effects Sought.
Chinchila and sable are already fighting
In gentle rivalry for a first place. Il ls
absurd, however, a veritable little storm
in a teacup, for each of these fourrures
is in its own way a thing of great beauty,
though the sable is more likely TO prove
joy forever. Chinchilla is, its most 6C-
voted adherents must confess, something
Of an ephemeraliIy. Mink will, in all
likelihood, be little out Of temper with
the times. 1t has been so frightfuIly
travestied; the mink-maTmOt-rat concoc-
tions are still too painfully vivid with
most of us TO render us very kindly dis
posed even to its superior OfIicer, the gen.
uine article.
Before the engagingly decorative joys
of dyed caracul we may prepare ourselves
to bow in humble obeisance. Tile most
delightful departure had little chance last
season of being enjoyed to Its fun extent.
1t was just for the select few, who took
unto themselves great credit for their
eclecticism. But of caracul this season,
both black and colored, there will De a
long and interesting tale 10 unfold. and
one that will give me personally a fine
degree of pleasure to tell, seeing / was
one Of its first and most enthusiastic ad-
vocates in the days that seem now al
most prehistoric.
l have heard, though / cannot for the
life CT me think where and when, there
fore hand on the rumor somewhat ter
tatively, that strappings of caracul will
find responsive place in cur winter af-
fections, or. rather. these strappings Will
be MEETINGS, which is a distinction with
out very much difference to the uninitla-
ted. To explain, the lines Of caracul will
be laid beneath the edges of the cloth,
the latter being machine-stltched down
in the usual manner. Carried about in
curved lines ON a hnIern or Etnn iacL,.t