The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-29
FOREcASTING THE FALL

ImportatiOns in Dress Goods Ar
irving DaiIy-Novel Braids and
Trimmings-veIvefs Extremely
Prominent - POpIins Recent
ArrivaI-BrOadcIofh Holds Good.
Henrfettas and High Grade
Cashmeres in Vogue - skirts
Fuller and Well stinened
While the world feminine is amusing
itself by seashore and lake, by mountain
and meadowland, the shops, both big and
little, are making strenuous efforts to ar
range and classify the goods that are ar
riving daily in anticipation of the autumn
trade that starts In when Madame returns
to town.
The custom-house officials have passed
the sweltering summer In examining bolts
and bales of cloths and furs-materials
that only to look at will aggravate the
heat, while the handling of them seems
to make the mercury wellnigh jump out
of the thermometer tube.
1t is interesting to the privileged few
that are admitted to wholesale ware
houses to see so far In advance Just what
Dame Fashion is going to favor some two
or three months hence. The city Is
thronged Just at this writing with mer-
chants and their representatives from all
parts of the States selecting and ordering
goods for immediate and future deliveri
les Dress goods seem to occupy the ma
jor share of attention at this moment;
and while the array is a bewidering one.
1t may be narrowed down to such as ara
positive successes. At this season many
things are represented which will fail in
the future to win popular approval Dame
Fashion is said to be a tickle lady, and in
nothing does she manifest this changeablel
quality more than in the dress goods Sec
tion.
With the extreme vogue that has at
tended Irish linens, Irish crochet and
other products of the Emerald Isle II is
only in reason to suppose that the Irish
poplins that have been famous for a CEN
fury or more should have their due quota
of fashionable attention. Queen Alexan-
dra of England and her daughters (the
Queen of Norway and the Duchess of
Fife have always been extremely partial
TO this fabric. There is new weave in
this modish goods that partakes of the
so-called chiffon finish that Is applied to
well-nlgh everything these days. This
late one Is quantity known as the colleen
poplin in Gaelic the word colleen meaning
a pretty young girl. There is no doubt
whatsoever but that the younger. as well
as the more staid and elderly sections of
society, will welcome this decided novelty.
1t presents a slightly ribbed surface,
high silken gloss and, better still, IL
wears like iron, hguratiyely speaking. All
of the modish colorings are shown
Broadcloths of high lusrer and con-
spicuously light weight are well repre-
scented on the wholesalers counters. Color
is to play q very important part Ia these,
trimmings of all sorts and characters
are slated for most enthusiastic inning.
Henriettas and cashmeres, the higher
grades be it well understood, are bound
to extend the favor that has been shown
to them In the late spring styles. In
deed, many of the models purchased by
dressmakers and buyers now In Paris arc
made up in those effective goods. Rib
bon velvets are the trimmings. par excel
lence. for those; and so far as the fall
fashions have declared themselves, 1t will
be the horizontal line liz applying those
that is to be followed.
Mohair Is another material to be &C
corded strong favor In the fall showings.
The newest designs from the other side
are in all the staple colorings-br0wn,
green, blue, etc, and there Is noted a
strong tendency toward novelty effects In
the form of the woven dots, dashes aud
stripes of self and contrasting eolors, the
background showing a melange effect IN
white and pastel colors, of which orange
seems to be the favorite.
As for the new color card, 1t does not
display anything that Is strlkingly novel.
chiefly of the FURNISHED and golden cop
per varieties; and In goods of high luster
they are certainly most attractive. Some
snuff aud cinnamon shades are attracting
quite some attention, and there are some
blues, which follow half tones rather than
aggressive shadlngs, that are bound TO
meet with approval. Those Elusive and
elusive shadings appear only In the more
expensive goods, such as siken veilings
and such like filmy weaves that are clear
ly Intended to be made up over silken
Innings.
And, by the way, there is to be a very
decided vogue for Innings of a strongly
contrasting shade to those transparent
and semitransparent weayes that have
lasted for more than one season now.
Somewhat tentatively have the plaid and
checked silks been used beneath plain
voiles and the finer Irvine cloths.
Gray Is already slated TO continue Its
vogue. but the new shades are all OF them
softer and even more intense than were
those of the springtime. The extremely
light tints. as pearl and nickel. are passed
by In favor of the denser smoke and fog
grays, the marechaux. the souris, Deep
ening into a peculiarly soft castor tint
which declares q hint Of yellow In ita
dyeing.