The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08
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Effective Little Touches That Tell for
Much.

September is the month Ct changes
and makeshifts IN the wardrobe, and
much depends upon the weather man
as to WherewithaI we shall be clothed
ments.
The wardrobe of the summer is still
more or less good albeit the coloreo
linens Individually show signs OF SOIL
and fading. But the hats whereWith
one faced the assembled multitudln-
Gus critics of clothes at the summer
resorts are by this time wellnlgh hope
less. It seems almost useless 70 pur-
chase headgear just now that Will nave
Added to which the coming styles in
millinery are totally different from
what has reigned hitherto.
The shops are still holding high car
nivaI in the reduced goods depart
ments. All Of the lightweight wooden
suits that helped out summer stock
are offered at a fraction of their orig
inal prices, and a purchase in this line
is good one just now
The spring season street costume
can be wonderfully helped out in the
wearing of some one or another OF the
new fads in neckWear. There are sew
eraI new shapes and sizes made up in
en- bro1dered9 nets, In point d esprit, IN
nnaiinette and in tulline. And, by the
way, this aforementioned deserves quite
a paragraph. all to itself. 1t is net
rather than q. Eulle, and has just about
the same body as a fine Brussels net, SO
that the title tulline is apt to be a
trifie misleading. Added to this extra
body there is a waterproof guaran-
tee that makes its price seem unusual
ly low and its term of service long
one.
The liking for ribbons as a costume
trimming or accessory is stiH rampant.
The vogue of velvet ribbons increases
rather than otherwise, and there is no
hut It'll ion
garniture for winter and party
frocks. Graduated rows are well liked;
knotted strappings of it seem to sup
port the three or four hounces that
decorate fussy frocks; innumerable
loops are used as shoulder knots to
support the collar of the sheer waist
and to catch the elbow sleeve just
above or below the point of the elbow,
as may seem most desirable.
Braids are on the counters in a most
beWildering variety. There are some
exceedingly smart patterns in plaids,
anywhere from two to a dozen inches
in width, and matched sets in those
appear on tailor mades in broadcloth,
serge, mannish goods and even up on
velveteens in the sober and more sta
pie colorings.
Lace braids that It is oftentimes hard
to consider as belonging to the braid
department at all are to be used in
dainty and delicate coloringg. Quite
fad it Is to pose those upon a velvet
band of contrasting color. For exam
pie, a gown of oyster-white broadcloth
Is trimmed with a yellowish lace braid
posed over chestnut-brown velvet, this
combination of brown and white being
a vastly favored one. And, en- PEASANT,
there was imported with this model
chapeau in oyster-white felt, with
beaver for trimming, and the cachet
that it needed was added in the long
paradise plume that waved from the
cache-peigne at the side, this being
brown at the end shading through the
orange tints and showing white at the
tip. al1sf
The French models intended for
winter wear are some of them bizarre
to an extreme. The sweep OF the IN
curled ostrich plume Is hardly a be-
coming one, and the tendency to pose
a lot of trimming upon it's quill hard
. ~ adds any grace to7the situation. Adj
ded to which the brins are manipu-
lated after the queerest styles One
large steeplecrowned affair from
Georgette has tremendously long
uncurled plume in white. There are
little bows of black velvet ribbons,
buckled on to the quill at close inter
walls, and this note is repeated in the
steep bandeau at the side. The brim is
narrow in the back and would be very
wide, indeed, in front were 1t not folded
back upon itself. just for all the world
as though the wearer had received a
slap in the face which spoiled the shape
/ of the hat.
Since those uncurled plumes demand
/ a length and luxuriousness of fue to
make them at all presentable, it is
not at all likely that they viii become
any too popular just at present, their
| cost being considerably in excess of the
| curIed kind. The willow plume is be-
ing pushed considerably. and here the
uncurled tip does not seem so forlorn
and bedraggled. A pretty effect is Of
tentines gained in the knOtting on half
way in its length of a hue Of another
color. For example, a long plume in
black has fiues of a brilliant royal blue
! knotted on: pale blues show lavenders
and lilacs .knotted through, and White
plumes are mated with almost every
/ color on the card.
Pipings are making strong bid for
/ favor, and one sees them in all sorts
of new and attractive connections.
While it is hardly piping in one sense
of the word, very effective work is
being done with thick and heavy ca
BILE cords covered with silk. The COW
ering is not shirred or wrinkled on
as heretofore; it lies quite smooth and
fat, and the cord--it is as thick as
one thumb in its smaller presenta-
| tions@is twisted into all sorts of pat
terms and designs. Watch springs.
| coil, undulating ropes. 1attfces. etc, are
SO fashioned, and very effective trim