The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20
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1t seems a bit early to talk fall fash
ions but the city shops are showing
their first autumn suits and millinery
and genera interest in summer clothes
is surely waning. Witness the dearth
OF interest shown in the late summer
bargains offered at all the shops. One
can buy really lovely fifty and sixty
cent organizes as low as twenty-four
cents a yard now and the linens, lawns,
batistes, dimities, and summer suitings
are all correspondingly Inexpensive.
This refers mainly to colors as white
goods are always safely kept from sea-
son to season and are seldom u in
price unless they find their way to the
remnant The silks are also re-
duced and have been for several weeks
and the prudent and economically in
clined are aging in their supplies for
next summer. For common as silk shirt
waist suits have become there is no
violence of their decline in popular
favor and those who are buying now
But to return to the fall suits and
hats-they haven't put in their appear
ance in Topeka. yet hut are due to ar
rive almost any time now and SO 4
word about what the earliest showlngS
reveal may not be out of place. AS
usual at the beginning OF the season
most of the new things are copies or
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son just ending. In hats there is moth
ing much yet but the soft felt knock
abouts, in all the old outing shapes and
some new ones, which are always
brought out at This season and hailed
with delight by the woman who realizes
that her summer hats are getting too
shabby to be respectable but neSitates
to buy others so late in the season. The
early fall felts are a boom in this emer-
-gency-aImost as useful as the wells
which return perenially in August to
cover a multitude of sins in the way of
weather beaten summer They
are back again this summer in all h
former fearful and wonderful shapes
and shades except that the mauv craze
which f1ourished in the east last year
(and fortunately never got west) is not
noticed. But the vivid greens and eli
the browns and blues and grays, white
and black, even pink and yellow are
seen. A fashionable combination, eSpe-
cially on the white duck, pique and
linen hats at the eastern resorts this
summer has been pale blue and bufT.
in chiffon or any other soft drape While
very effSctive this cOnce1t has not pc
come
But it was hats. not wells, we were
talking about, which brings to mind the
late summer fad of pale blue beaEer
outing hats. These are mostly in the
large crowned sailor shapes and are
trimmed with velvet, silk coque feath-
ers or quilts. Sometimes they shade
toward a turquoise but most or them
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not inexpensive, yet a great many are
seen at the resorts and swathed with
white or pale blue and white wells they
are very fetching.
Now about the suits: there isn't yet
anything so very new, except the
sleeves. These show the bouffant top,
the straight shoulder line that
have been promised all summer ana
to an unaccustomed eye it can't be said
they are so attractive. Skirts are
of spring and summer models
of fullness in tucks or plaits let
out at the hips. No plain skirts are
shown and all are short, instep length
or shorter. The box coat prevails
among the early showings- 1t is seen
in hip, three-quarter and longer styi2s.
the back is plain and solne-
times it has a wide inverted pleat- The
back strap survives in many instances.
Many fashionable models in travelling,
storm, driving and DUST cloaks are IN
The SHOPS. These lave enormous
sleeves with big f1aring cuffs, are three
or full length and are capac-
Gus enough for three of the f~ashionably
slender figures of the season. All the
,ough weaves and mixtures are en-
oloyed for these garments. Capes are
eonSpicuouSly absent and the neckS are
finished with mannish coat collars.
The nifty little blouse jackets IN
reduced last spring and which have
oeen so much worn in linen and wool
throughout the summer are not much
;een in the fall suits. But then only
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orought out as yet. The blouse will
be good for dressier wear all
winter all the fashion experts pre-
lict the popularity of the tight fitting
ong coats later in the season and the
eturn of the Directoire modes.
The new corset is of course of much
to women. 1t differs from the
Id in thai it supports the bust but does
o without raising it and sharply de-
ines the waist but preserves the
traight line at the clasp in front. Thus
{ will be seen the boX-front corset is
lot the mode and that the smaller ]
waist is obtained by the use {
f the new corset. This does not mean
high busted effect of the old curved ]
ront corset any more than it does the t
exaggerated straight n box front af- I
air but a shape approaching more
loosely the perfect and what should be f
he normal figure.
Small checks and small and medium I
lafds appear in the fall dress ma
erials, and from them most effective t
hirt waist suits are fashioned. One l
eady made in a city shop was of a r
sized plaid in two shades of T
dark and d barred with Z