The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-11

September is the month of changes and
makeshifts In the wardrobe, and much
/ depends upon the weather man as 70
wherewithal we shall be clothed and how
| we shall seek our amusements
| The wardrobe OF the summer. is still
more or less good, albeit the coIored linens
Individually show signs Of soil and fading.
But the hats wherewith one faced the
assembled multitudinous critics Of clothes
4 at the summer resorts are by this time
welinigh hopeless. 1t seems almost use
less to purchase headgear Just now that
Will have TO be abandoned a few weeks
later on. Added to which the coming
styles In millinery are totally different
| from what has reigned hitherto.
The shops are still holding high carnt.
val In the reduced goods departments.
All Of the lightweight wooden suits that
helped out summer stock are offered Mt
a fraction of their original prices. and
| purchase In this line Is a good one
| just now.
The spring seasons street costume can
be wonderfully helped out In the wearing
OF some one or another of The new finds
In neckwear- There are seyerni new
shapes and sizes made ND In embroidered
nets. In point d'esprit, in malinette ana
In tuliine- And, by the way, this last
mentioned deserves quite a paragraph ALI
to ITSELF 1t is net rnther than a tulle.
and has Just about the same body as
hne Brussels net, so that the title tut
line Is apt to be trile misleading.
Added to this extra body. there Is n
waterproof guarantee that makes It's price
seem unusually low and Its term of serv.
Ice long one
The liking for ribbons as A costume
trimming or accessory Is sui RAMPANT.
The vogue OF velvet ribbon increases
rather than otherwise, and there ia no
doubt but that Il will reign supreme as
a earniture for winter and party frocks.
Sraouatec rows are well liked; knotted
strappings Of it seem to support the
three or four founees 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 or
the elbow, MS may seem :lost desirable.
Braids are on the counters In 4 most
bewildering vnriety. There are some ex-.
eeedingly smart patterns In plaids. any.
where from two to q dozen inches in
width, and matched sets in those appear
on nilormades In broadcloth. serge, man.
nish goods and even up on velveteeps An
the sober and more staple coIoringa.
Lace braids that II is oftentimes hard
to consider as belonging to the braid do.
partment at all are to be used in daintv
and delicate colorings Quite a fad n 1.
{, pose those upon velvet band Of cop-
trasting color. For example, a gown NJ
oyster-white broadcloth is trimmed v,th
a yeilowish lace braid posed over chest.
nut-brown velvet. this combination AZ
brown and white being a vastly favored
one. And. en- PEASANT, there vss imnort.
ed with this model q chapeau In ovs,.r.
white felt. with beaver for trimr,nr
and the cachet that Il needed was aaaed
IN the long paradise plume that wpvea
from the cache-peigne at the sida ,nI.
being brown at the end, shading thro,.s
the orange tints and showing white At
the tip.
The French models intended for v,n,.r
wear are some Of them bizarre "a a.,
IRENE The sweep Of the uucurIed m.
trich plume In hardly 4 becounlnr one
and tue tendency 10 pose q lot of tim.
ming upon its qnili hardly sdds any race
to the situation. Added TO which thu
orims are manipulated after the oueerest
styles. One large steeple-crowned afrsir
from Georgette has Tremendously long
uncuried plume In white. There are mr..
lie bows OF black velvet ribbons. buckIed