Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-19
NO MARKED CHANGES
Fall Coats Follow Very Close
ly Spring Models.
BUTTON TRIM M I N GS
ARE VERY STRIKING IN COLOR
AND DESIGN.
Straw Hats In Dark Brown, Blues,
Reds and Grays, With Velvet
and Wing Trimmings.
B UTTON TRIM MI N GS

Special Correspondence of The Star
NEW YORK. August IT. 1905.
Misses garments are always slower to
change than those for women therefore the
first autumn styles show but slight depart
ures Spring and late summer effects are
in a great measure repeated, with such
notifications and materials as the new sea-
son calls for and with some small new
touch for novelty. September Is far too early
to be sure of the moods and caprices of
fashion, so mammas are more ensnared by
the recognized model than by the utterly
novel thing. Such modes as appear to them
as reasonable" are also preferred to more
dashing effects for the school wardrobe,
which involves the primary autumn sewing
done for young girls.
Naturally, the first fall articles to be con-
sidered for any wardrobe are coats and
hats, for the minute winds begin to blow
light wraps and seasonable looking head
gear are necessary. These also permit many
Summer frocks being carried far into the
autumn, especially gowns of silk, Yelling
etc, for there Is now neither a season for
light tints nor thin fabrics Provided a frock
is not of wash material, suitably shrouded
it may go all winter long at the right mo-
ment and place.
The Ready to Wear.
being shown for misses by many shops adj
mirably suit the unsettled moment between
the heat of summer and the chills of late
autumn. Numbers Of the loose box and
Norfolk coat styles in covert, French cloth,
etc, vary little from spring ones, a slightly
increasing smallness in the gigot sleeve be-
ing the principal change. The autumn touch
is made with velvet collar and slight trim
ming OF the same on the sleeves, while
some Of the half-ftting coats are made dis
tinctive by the number of their patch pock-
cts A little French model in greenish COW
ert, shown for a girl Of sixteen, had a tiny
watch pocket at the left breast, larger
one beneath 1t for the handkerchief and two
hip pockets.
the ones which will be preferred, with
a fly buttoning of the front. in preference
to the double breast. Still, despite this
tendency to hide the buttons OF coats, there
Is likelihood that a very fiamboyant taste
in coat fastenings Is about to be encour-
aged
Paris Hints.
Advlces from Parts on this subject state
that the large makers are considering a
coat button which Will exactly initiate the
larger OF the copper coins used In Japan A
coat already designed for a lady of fashion
exploited buttons made of genuine Japanese
coins. the square orlices being bored for the
sewing on. The coins were polished to a
dazzling brightness and mounted in thin
rims OF silver. and the effect of this upon a
coat of brown lace and taffeta was said to
he very splendid. Adherents of the Rus
sian cause we are also told may look for
ward 10 seeing the silver and copper pieces
OF the Little Father" upon their coats.
Some perfectly new coat cuts later on are
liable TO deal largely with short WASTED
empire effects. and in colorng the soft