The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-15
Fashions From Three Centers
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
BY Edith RAYMOND.


silk piece goods. Retailers are care
full in selecting their goods, but at the
same time the yardage taken is well
ahead of that of last season at this per-
iod. While prices on finished goods are
holding firm the increased cost of pro-
ducti5n can only mean that manufactu-
rers viii be compelled at no very dis
tant date to mark up the prices that
they opened their lines at.
In jobbing quarters there is steady
demand for~fall on plain fabrics, such
as taffetas and peau de soies. The
larger call for silk Innings has placed
the taffeta end of the market in a very
strong position, and as the silk lining
viii be largely used during the fall and
winter months, this demand will I'M
doubtedly increase steadily. Quite a
few mills are already refusing to book
any further orders on taffetas for early
fall delivery, as they claim they have
booked up orders for all they can turn
out for over two months Buyers are
finding the supply of taffetas and other
staple silk goods short, and deliveries
difficult to get In addition to the call
for plain goods, crepe de chine, and
silk mouSseline de soies are also being
taken.
The popularity of open weaves for
fall and winter wear is quite pro-
nOunced. and means a large consump-
ton of sheer silks as we'll as open
weavss in dress fabrics. This also
means that larger quantities of silks for
foundation purposes will be needed, and
that the call for plain taffetas and 9TH
er goods of a similar character will be
very heavy. With raw silk prices in
creasing at the rate of twenty cents per
pound per week, 1t will not be sur
prising if raw silk touched the 81 per
pound mark
To find a parallel condition in the
colored and fancy cotton goods trade
one has to go back many seasons and
then there has not been a time within
a generation when the strong position
of goods applied to all lines as It does
today. Starting with the standard sta
pie ginghams agents state they have
their mills sold up for the fall and win
ter and have extensive spring contracts
with jobbers and the cutting-up trade.
The export brokers have been unable
to get more than a fraction of the usual
stocks of ginghams for shipment
abroad Agents tell them that the
home demand is so strong that the
mills will not divert goods for foreign
trade The fine dress ginghams that
range in price from 81 TO IL cents, are
under order to the full extent of a ma
jority of the New England mills and
the southern organizations making fine
quality ginghams are as we'll sold I'D
as ever before in their history
For chambrays and madras line the
domestic trade has come in with strong
fall and winter orders and on spring of
1908 lines they have taken considerably
more than for last spring The over
the-counter sales of zephyrs, mulls and
organizes this year have been heavy
and this has given the jobber full con-
fldence to place orders for a liberal
quantity Of goods for the spring of 1908
On much of the business booked the
prices show an advance which dis
counts 1S-cent cotton for the coming six
to eight months.
Striking touches of color are always
quite likely to appear with the first
hint of fall, and this season is not to
be an exception. Not only striking col
ors, but striking color combinations
are the order OF the day, even at this
early hour. Take for an example this
toilet worn last week at an out-of- town
hotel by a fashionable woman who is
far from being famous for sensational
effects. The gown was of mole col
ored chiffon broadcloth. and the hat of
purple velvet massed with feathers that
shaded from pale yellow to purple
The most startling color tone of the
AOuA 10 NOlNl61lS rust yellow Is
another. In the combinations into
which these colors are introduced. me-
tallic effects seem to be the desired
thing. Bronze is one of the accessories.
A rust velvet shot with bronze trim
med rust-COlored suit just brought
from the other side. There was a band
Of the velvet around the bottom of the
skirt and the velvet trimmed the coat
Just now it is safer to choose a mixed
or plain material and trim it with
braid If it is to be made now and go
through the winter. All tailormades
will have long sleeves, without a doubt.
which means that the dressmaker's
time will be used all through the fall
and winter in frightening sleeves of
passe garments. A tailormade lust
brought from London, where it was
made for the fall, has q short jacket of
diagonal striped wool and a plain cloth
skirt.
Natter blue began the season with
such vogue that it is being set aside
with alacrity by the exclusive for the
puppies, which are the tones of the mo-
ment. Purple of a vivid shade is the
most popular accessory color of the
hour. The all-purple costume is hardly
as much Of a favorite as the one in
which the tone serves as a trimming
for the gown and in the color of the
sunshade, hat, scarf, etc. When purple
is employed as a gown color the fabric
Is pretty sure to be gauze of some sort,
as the color is far from being a summer
one. A well-known society woman was
seen the other day in a purple and
white striped chiffon and a purple
horsehair hat which was mass of lit
tie straight feathers also purple. A
cream cOlOred cloth gown seen at a
fashionable restaurant was accompa-
MED by a big purple hat with purple
feathers, A white lace frock was worn
recently with a purple hat trimmed
lavishly with purple marabou feathers,
little neck ruff of purple marabou
and the daintiest purple stockings and
shoes, the latter tied with very wide
ribbons.
Parisians are wearing very elaborate
leather belts. the leather being much
fooled and gilded after the fashion of
old bindings, having solid gold buckles.
With an ingenious eye for effect, many
women are wearing them back to front.
the deep buckle coming in front, while
the narrower one, with its holes for
adjusting, goes at the back This plan
gives pretty sloping line to the waist
The striped leather belt is very fash
ionable for the moment. The belts are
of white suede, and the stripes. about
half an inch wide, run across. These