The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-16
FOR FEMININE READERS
THE FALL FASHIONS DO NOT, AS YET,
INDICATE MUCH NOVELTY.
The Fad for Collecting Old Things
Has Amusing Features-The Lux
ury of the Lady's Maid.

Natty French Jackets of covert cloth,
says the fashion writer of the New York
Post, are made with loose fronts without
dart seams. double-breasted and finished
with three graduated circular shoulder
capes, the roll of the lining showing like a
silk or satin piping at the extreme edge OF
each cape.
The skirts of some of the smart autumn
dresses of light wool are shirred several
inches below the belt, after being slightly
gored in the front and side breadths. The
back breadths are box-plaited, and the
lower part of the skirt is laid in horizontal
tucks of graduated width, beginning with
one about two and one-half inches wide
at the extreme edge of the skirt. Some
times the tucks are stitched in with silk
of a color contrasting with that which
forms the skirt. and very often there Is a
taffeta or surah waist the exact shade or
the wool fabric, pin-dotted in silk, the color
of the Misunderstanding. The effect is
very pretty in gray and cherry red, blue
and old rose, or fawn color with Persian
mauve dots and stitching. All the beauti-
full fall and winter textiles, even the vel
vets, brocades and new French moires, en-
riched with velvet or satin stripes or flow
ers, are soft and flexible, and thus are cas-
lily draped. plated, folded or tucked The
lovely pastel dyes in nsonochromes or in ar
tistic French characterization are more
than ever fashionable-some warmer
shades being added to the list-other colors
showing but slight deepening OF the tlnts
which have proved so popular, and so re-
markedly becoming alike TO fair and dark
women.
The name of the new bolero is legion. In
stead of waning in favor. its autumn varie-
ties are almost past counting, and its new
effects, strictly and minutely chronicled
would fill a small volume. 1t appears In
models of every beautiful fabric from lace,
net, silk, crepe-de-Chine, sheer WOOL etc,
To velvet, brocade, panne, watered silk,
French velours, and so on through the
slowing fall exhibit, to fur of every costly
description. The bolero and the Elton mod
els complete elegant costumes for visiting,
Tor the promenade. for day functions, and
in the preparing of elaborate evening toll
cts; they smarter the going-away costumes
of autumn brides, and their Protean forms
render them becoming to all but women of
heavy build. They are made double-breast-
ed and very short, or they have long stole
ends, or mere jacket-fronts with long Direc-
toire coat-tails at the back, or again, they
turn down TO the shoulders, with Mousque-
taire revers with guimpe above, of panne,
satin brocade, or matelasse silk, with gath
cred undersleeves of the guimpe fabric issu-
ing from beneath the short bell-shaped
sleeves of the jacket.
Rivaling I'm favor the bolero, Elton, and
| little French jacket bodices and short Louis
| coats are new doube-breasted Russian
blouses, trinity belted, but made without
| the skirts, which were added to these gar
| ments when last in fashion. They are ex-
| tremely becoming to slender figures, and
pew French models show them in deer
| geranium or Roman red, covered with jet
| tea gimp, arranged in chevrons or lattice
| ratterns or braided in black soutache, with
| black velvet Russian collar cuffs and
| girdie. Brown Venetain-cloth blouses hav.
| stitched bands of sable-brown velvet; AMI
| green-cloth models show revers and higf
| military collar nearly covered with lines oil
| black and gold braid Violet-cloth blouses
fastened with crystal buttons, have collars
revers and cuffs of silver-fox, chinchilla, oil
| very dark mink fur