The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-10-30
FADS AND FASHIONS


New York, Oct. s0.-Women who
love beautiful things-and what wo-
man doee not love them.-lnd 1t more
tantalizing to visit the large and fash
ionable shops this season than ever
before. The reason is that never has
there been such a bewildering wealth
and variety of beautiful materials,
trimmings and accessories and of fin
ihed models exhibited as just now.
Those who are in a position to know
say that owing to the stringency of
the money market last year compare
lively little was spent for gowns and
other things dear to every woman. The
manufacturers, dealers and dressmak-
ers alike felt the effect of the panic,
and to make business brisker this
year they combined their ingenuity and
efforts and planned effects, both of
color and material, they felt sure
would prove irresistible. A glance at
the display in any fashionable estab-
ment will suffice to show how well
they have succeeded.
Not so very long ago simply colors
were the style and only the most sub
tie and harmonious combinations OF
shades of the same color were per-
missible in the same costume. Today
all that is changed. The variety of
colors and shades, of texture and fin
ish of materials has become multiplied
a thousandfold compared with former
years and there is scarcely any limit
10 the number of colors that may be
combined in the same costume. The
most daring combinations, producing
an effect of barbaric splendor, are
found by the side of the most chaste
and subdued combinations Particu-
larly in colors the variety to be found
in the shops is SO great that there is
no longer an excuse for any woman
who does not find exactly the right
color best suited to her complexion
Notwithstanding the fact that col
ors. even those of the loud and glar-
ing kind, are extremely fashionable
this season. there is a great demand
for blacks and grays. 1t may be
said that gray is one of the dominant
colors of the season. Apropos of gray
a word of warning may not be amiss
Gray is undoubtedly beautiful and
pleasing color, but it is not for every
woman. Only too often women of mid
die age, who are colorless. anaemic
anu nave lAS Nd5AGu-OQL complexion
of invalids, make the mistake of
wearing gray. They should .never do
so. It merely accentuates their lack
of color and gives them the appear
ance of moving corpses. an effect de-
cidedly undesirable. Gray, even the
most lifeless and dead, Is suitable for
young girls who have a great deal OF
color in skin and hair, or even for
middle-aged women of the forid and
healthy looking type, but never for
the pale and faded women with dark
lines under her eyes and wrinkles in
her bloodless cheeks
Blues, browns and green's are ex-
tremely popular this season and are ia
be found in the shops in an endless
variety of shades. OF the blues it is
characteristics that nearly all the new
shades have some green in them Va
rious shades of a sort of peacock blue
are particularly popular and are used
extensively for dress material and
trimming. But few blues have any
tinge of gray. Green serge, which is
to be worn a great deal for street
costumes this winter, has olive tones
curiously mixed with the dusky tones
Of damson plum The wistaria tone
of purple is the favorite, but the plum
shades from red to gray go all through
every purple and make 1t look diff
ferent shades in different lights. Tn,
wistaria is the softest shade of pur
pie because it has gray-green in /
and it tones in with hair and com
plexion better than any of the others
OF browns there is also a great va
riety of tones to be found. Citron and
bronze are probably the favorites TIL
latter, particularly, is brilliant and is
exceptionally becoming to a woma
with brown hair that has streaks o
copper in it. Another shade popula
last year Another shade is mustard
which can be made becoming by com
bining it with some deeper and dark
er tone of brown and ecru lace.
AS to texture, it may be said tina