Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-21
Society,"

/ n UTE a radical change has come into
dress fabrics this season. in that GER
W tain weaves heretofore plain in color
ing are brought out in stripes. For in
stance, who, year or two ago would have
thought of such thing as striped broad
| cloth? And yet today striped Droadclotn
Is distinct feature in tailored suits, and
is often indeed the distinctive feature OF
| the suit. Possibly it Is the return of the
plain tailormade walking suit that has led
| up to this vogue of fancy fabrics instead
| of plain weayes. The palmer the making
of the garment the better the chances for
using a fancy cloth.
| The fancy striped broadcloths are first
in the rank of fashion favorites this fall
There Is a soft blend to the stripes In
! this CLOTH and the colors In which they
are brought out are all in the dark and
soft tones Two toned grays and browns,
and greens with brown, and blue with
brown are favorite combinations Plain
broadcloths are not by any means over
| looked by Dame Fashion, but for point
of novelty the striped ones lead.
| Another novelty of the season Is the
| fancy serges. These are serge weayes in
chevron patterns, but with interlines that
| form checks or plaids, the whole woven
in melange effects that account for their
name of the skibo serge. They are dis
tinctly Scotch in character and are counted
| exceedingly smart. These are shown In
the dark shades of leaf green, the Bur-
| gundy reds and the new blues, as well as
the more conventional grays and browns
the touch of black mixed in with the
color toning down what might otherwise
be too glaring shade.
| The plain serges are also in for a sea-
son of high favor The novelty in this is
the wide wales. The fine and regulation
| weaves of serges are also seen, but those
| with the ribs or wales an eighth or a
quarter of an inch wide are first in favor
| The very wide wales are intended Tor
tourist and auto coats rather than suits
Still another novelty consists of serge
or broadcloth or even thinner weaVes
showing a velvet figure or stripe. These
cloths are all imported and sell at $6 and
s. a yard hence there is little likelihood
| of their coming into general use. 1t has
Y been long and many a year since these
velvet figured fabrics have been in favor
and 1t seems like a return to the high
| quality and standard of our grandmother
times to find them back in the high class
shops and the imported model garments
| OF course they are intended for cere-
monious costumes.
Rather heavy and wirey voiles and pan
amas of good weight will be extensively
used for the little dresses that Will be
| such a feature of the fall and winter
fashions. These are just dresses" pure
and simple. They are not costumes and
| they are not jumpers, but waists and
skirts usually Joined with a medium belt
and always rather simple In style. The
| fact that women ave worn thin waists
SO much in the winter season makes them
like a very light wool fabric when they
use a wool for the waist at all. Broad
cloth waists are too heavy for our over
heated city houses hence light weight
fabric, above mentioned, will have first
place in the little dresses that will be
worn under the coats of cloth or fur or
fur CLOTH as the season advances.
| silk and wool weaves of medium
weight are also slated for the coming
season. A silk and wool colleen poplin has
luster of silk and the wear of wool.
1t is suited for the little dresses above
mentioned and in the light shades for
more ceremonious costumes for dinner
and evening uses Sedo silk is another
silk and wool weave of the corded variety
which is exceedingly serviceable and at
] tractive. Lansdowne, still another of the
silk and wool fabrics. is finer, but will
he used in these self-same little dresses
and also in more elaborate evening and
dinner costumes
Marquisette has become staple among
the fashion fabrics. 1t comes In silk and
wool and even In cotton, although, of
| course, the cotton weaves will not be fea-