The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-29

It is difficult to draw on ones imagina- tion as to the picture the smart woman will present this winter Never has there been such a variety of materials, and not in many years have the coutourieres paid so much attention to the smallest detail of a woman's wardrobe The rich ness of many of the fabrics take one back to ones grandmother's days when brocades and lowered things were in vogue.
 Such charming things
 Imagine a brocaded velvet, if you are a woman who loves warm, caressing fabrics, and the orchid tints, for these form the flowers against the satin back ground.
 Then, if you love the glitter of a gown the silvered things, there are diaphanous fabrics sprinked with gold, the cloth or gold. the fashion writers call this shim- mering material that suits the Iltohia women.
 Then, if you are a woman who loves to look as the Maud Muller women would without the garden part of it, there are things pointed in pale tea roses They are sunset looking things, and seem to fade away like summer clouds. If you are a woman who loves laces and jewels, for you, who are warm and luxurious and fond of the Cleopatra things in life, there are robes of lace, soft, clinging.
 The coIors have been drawn from Egyptian skies and Italian sunsets The tawny things that you see in Tangier, the reds, and terra cotta of an East In- dian place, and the soft and warm color ed things like old wine or the tints in Venetlans woman's hair. One could go quite mad in the midst of so much color, and ones love for luxury can be satisfied in all the soft nesting things of warm furs and skins.
 Think of enveloping oneself in the white heeee of polar bear and march, ing beneath a southern sun. One has grown accustomed to meeting face to face on some shining floor wonderful bear skin but now we are to actually feel their delicious warmth, to look nice and shaggy and to call ourselves Esqui- mau women.
 The latest use to which caifskin has been put IS the building of a natty jacket as part of fall costume. The brown cloth skirt which goes with it is laid in broad shallow plaits, the spaces between at the hem, being ornamented with bits Of the calfskin.
 The automobile has had much to do senting once a shapeless cut and sur face of indifferent black, this old protec- tive garment has within recent seasons taken on surprising beauty. All the good cuts have TOW the enveloping looseness of garments for motoring, but they are shapely to an astonishing degree, and certain coats of extra generous lines seem really splendid on large, fine fig ures.
 The new rain coat is not, as was the old one, of sombre and unbecomng hue. The richest colors distinguish coats for day use, and for evening wear there are rubbered silk coats as delicately tinted as opera wraps. These last are espe- cially gene. ous in cut, with great flow ing or bag sleeves made 10 cover the big gest under one, and pointed and circu- lar cape collars which hide necessarily clumsy shoulders.
 But the interest of most women cen ters in the waterproof for everyday use. With the rains of autumn coming on. a garment which will insure the neat ness of t.-e gown beneath is necessity, for rain is no longer a bar to the prom sibly this is because rain coats have become So delightful.
 Beginning with materials 1t seems to be the etiquette of the pretentious places never to call rain proof textures "crav- enette." Materials are either rubber or shower-proof silk or shower-proof cloth. If you ask for a rubber coat for foot wear you will probably be stared at as if you had just proposed to break one of the commandments. Rubber rain coats, you are told, are only worn en voiture Gin vehicles,) and to wear one out walk ing would be a serious indescretion. In other words although superb driving garment, the rubber coat is considered fast" on foot.
 Lace wells are in vogue and pretty. Dotted looking nets, trying to the eyes. but very modish.
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