Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-16
Up-to- Date Hints for Between Season
Needs.
GOLF CAPES and NOBBY JACKETS
An Ideal Travelling or Roughing It
Outfit.
NEW FLANNEL SHIRT WAISTS
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

| NEW 1ORh, september II, 1871.
| Why any poet should sing of melancholy
days unless he is thinking of the biz
yards of February and the thaws of March,
l cannot conceive Surely, nothing in the
way of weather can be more delightful
than golden October and gray November.
And even humid September has its charm
| ing intervals. In fact, If you are not on
city streets, September (omitting the euut-
noctaD is period worth living through.
| But September has one serious drawback,
| or episode. besides its great storm. 1t is
| the time when we must get some sort of a
Jacket or wrap to last until furs can be
| worn. and must have some sort of a tailor
made to replace the dainty fripperics of
| August There is a certain city founded
by Quaker where tradition has it that
straw hats are called in on September 1,
whether they be worn by men or women.
Gotham gives more latitude than that,
thank fortune. For the first few weeks of
| September have a way of reaching tenn
perature record which does not argue well
for felt headgear. Yet the fiat has gone
forth, and even the women who left for
! trips by mountain in August bore
| with them the soft gray and tan feits
which would have been most delightful if
only every woman had not chosen the
same shape.
L
ding crowd change of headgear is out of
the question, and you can only wait until
you come to town and look very shabby
for a day or two until you get something
together AS long as you do not come III
contact with less fortunate sisters who
have had to return to conventionality and
| pavement you will not feel bit awkward.
In fact, the clothes which have been worn
| a., summer in the and bravely taken
their chance in the laundry have an ar
tistic, softened tone which one grows at
| tached to. 1t seems part of the good times
of the days that are gone. But If you
| have come home for lew days prepara-
| tory for starting on little last tour of the
beautiful world which will so soon turn
| red, then brown, and then gray, and after
| ward white, YOU will need rather differ
| ent outfit from the one you sailed forth
| with earlier i'll tie season.
An Indispensable Wrap.
| In the first place, a golf cape is invalu-
| able. The one illustrated is taken from
| late model, and there are many such 1t
| cannot. | suppose, be criticised. But lame
| Fashion ought really to be told, l think,
| tat heavy fringes on a garment so plainly
| made may do for the wearer of a kilt, but
| do seem quite out of place cloth gar
| ment in our climate. a cape which is al
ready ornamented, with the bright lin
| ing shown either in hood over the shoulders
| or in a still newer trimming, which forms
a sort of second cape, draped a little over
| the shoulders, being more suitable.
| Or if you simply can't wear cape there
are the most charming little jackets. One
just sent home TO be worn the next two
| II ontils all sorts of occasions short of
| most cerenlOnious ones is of broadcloth, OF
| a dark shade of crimson, with lapelS OF
black silk. 1t is lined with crimson silk,
and when worn will be varied by putting at
| times lace upon the lapels, and at times
handsome embroidery. This trimming of
coats goes to a great length, and one can
not help being pleased with the effect, even
| If it is not as severe as the tailor-made of
yore. OF course, one can have a pilot coat
Of chinchilla Goth, perhaps in dark blue
| trimmed with gay buttons. and wear it in
all sorts of weather with a certainty that it
Is smart and is becoming to every who
takes enough exercise to keep down to a
| proper figure. Judging by the girl of the
period as she appears at the resorts of the
summer we are running to a tall spare
race and when We become that 1 suppose
| we VIII love exercise even better than we
| do now. Everything becomes more charm
ing when it is not an absolute necessity.
The Runabout Hats.
| The ceremonious hats and bonnets are
| scarcely en- reggie as yet One get them,
of course. bat there will be later models
| which it will pay to see But the runab3ut
| hat, the smart hat to with short
| jackets, the everyday hat, which will man
| festly bear autumn winds and winter
| SHOWS, has appeared. 1t is larger than a
! tC4ue, put mas fnucn the same eneCt, ana
| is about the shape of the toreador hats of
| the summer, but, unlike them, it is not
! tipped over the eyes. 1t is generally of
| brown, black or blue beaver cloth, and there
| may be soft breasts of birds on it (think of
| the homes robbed before you decide on
| those soft feathers), or there may be ends
| of the cloth itself brought up sharply 10
| stand out from the hat. Then there is jet
| to ado to the effect of the end. OF the felt
hats what can one say? The Rough Riders.
, ] mean They have been too much in evil
| dence. Yet am assured on good authority
| that it is only the dollar sixty-six or
| seVSnty-seven hat which is common. The
! hats which range from s. up, it is said still
| have their own glory and are easily known
! when worn. Be that it may nothing is
| more convenient than soft gray felt to
| wear during the next few months and If
| one wants ore it is only necessary to pick
| out an unusual shape. OF course, many of
| those one sees in the shops are most ex-
aggerated in shape, and the extremely long
| quilts are not in good taste. The best hats
have simply two short feathers on the left
side, and either a ribbon, scarf or veil
| wound about them.
Simple and Tight Fitting.
| The tailormade suits for early fall wear
| are tight fitting, and, the Illustration
| shows, severely simple in themselves. Any
| decoration or trimming which is wanted
| or needed is added in the waistcoat or waist
wcrn with them. OF course, such a suit
| would not at all do for wear with shirt
| waists and shirt waists has not at all
! disappeared from view perhaps it would be
| well to get a runabout tailor-made which
! would allow enough room under the coat
| for smart silk flannel shirt waist
| An acquaintance of mine. who has found
| refreshing spot in which to spend the
| next few weeks up on the outskirts of the
| Ad:rondacks, where one is near enough to
| the hearts of the woods to absolve one
| from formal festivities, and yet not far
| enough from the railroad to render commu-
| nication with the mails uncertain, starts
with her husband tonight for that delight
| full trip, first up the Hudson, then up Lake
George and then into the mountains
| Her travelling outfit Is a very simple one
but singularly complete and could be used
| If she were going to the seashore instead
| and is, in short, an ideal outnt of the au-
| tumn months.
Comfort and Style.
| She has chosen a tailormade suit with a
| double-breasted jacket, which yet fits easily
enough to allow her to wear a shirt waist
| underneath. The suit is rough brown
| cheviot, and she has beaver hat, made as
those described above. in brown. To carry
| til vfro o.,1 hove