The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-24
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Sir Thomas Upton
Influences Femi-
nine Dress.
BURNED BREAD BROWN.
A Velvet Season-Plaid
Skirts and New
markets.

1t is to be a velvet season and a green
season, if all signs do not fail, and the
fashionable woman must include at
least one velvet garment in her winters
wardrobe. Velvet dresses are always
elegant and they have this in their
favor-they need no trimming. The
beauty of the costume consists in its
rich simplicity. Velvet jackets and
fancy waists, deliberately trimmed with
old lace, modern lace and jet. will be
ultra-modish.
Some of the newest CONNECTIONS in
neckwear are velvet stocks. Velvet rib
bon an inch wide makes a lovely neck
garniture if passed outside the stand
ing collar, tied in graceful loops in
front, where it is caught by a pin or
buckle. then brought down a few inches
on the corsage, where the process is re-
peated.
1t is Sir Thomas Upton whom the
world of fashion has to thank for the
prevalence of green this fall. An emer-
aid autumn it will be-emerald in
dresses, hats and garments. Shamrock
felts combine rich leaf green with
pale sage. and brown, mauve, blue or
red is supposed to go we'll with them
favorite material for gowns, while the
Fife plaid, with its deep green and
brown stripes, is promised follow
ing.
This is to be a silk season as well as
a velvet. The shop windows are filled
with lovely patterns, stripes being to
the fore in the designs. In black silk
there is what is known as the new
street silk, or travellers JOY, which has
a finish like peau de sole, is as soft
as faille francais, and is warranted
never to wear out. Cloth in stripes and
bindings is applied to silk frocks.
Fur will be the rage this winter, and
almost any kind will be fashionable
Collarettes are deep and high, edged
with a contrasting fur and finished off
with numerous tails. Young women
will wear sealsl5in jackets, cut small
and tightfitting, with revers and col
lars of Russian or Hudson Bay sable
Sealskin sacks that were made LAST
year will need no alteration, although
the sleeves of new fur jackets are being
made trifle smaller at the top with
less fullness in the length from Shout
der to wrist
Plaid skirts will be fad this fall
They come in exquisite colorings, with
smooth or hairy finish the latter being
the smartest, and are meant to be worn
with plain Velveteen or cloth waists of
the ground color One of the new
Newmarket outing hats of big, wool
ly-plaid in bright colors goes we'll with
the suit. Original, imported Newman
kets" cost Sc apiece, but they are sim
ply plaid tam o. shanters crown and
brim stitched around and around a
great many times, with the inevitable
quill stuck in one side. With a plaid
skirt you would have a Newmarket
of the same plaid, of course
Crystal tassels and disks mingled
with White silk fringe win be used on
party dresses this winter. 1t comes as
wide as eight or ten inches and as mar
row as half an inch in width. Crystal
embroidery and buttons have gone out.
Burned bread brown, the new color,
is said to be the only brown that does
not make the skin in its neighborhood
look yellow. Gloves, straw hats belts
and gowns are made of it.
Boas of black ostrich feathers or
crimped chiffon which have been worn
SO long, will continue popular, as they
deserve to do. for nothing is more soft
ening to the face or more becoming to
plain features. They are expensive to
buy and people are always losing them,
but are useful and pretty. Jeweled boa
fasteners, in the shape of the letter
s, of silver, gold and cheaper metals.
are exquisite and not very dear in
price.
Paris modistes have devised a petit
coat to wear under the clinging outer
skirt that ruffies to the knees, but from
there Is made of Jersey cloth that
clings skin tight. This does not augur
very well for the return of more sensi-
BILE drapery.
Shirt waists for winter viii be built
of flannel, silk, velveteen, cashmere,
poplin and other fabrics. The fronts
are made yokeless, and full, with a
band down the front. closed with close
row of small buttons. The backs also
are yokeless, with slight fitness and
sleeves that are snugly fitting with
pointed cuff that falls over and half
covers the hand. Collars will be high
and close-fitting and will come up high
in the back. They are not intended 10
be worn with linen collars