The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1919-08-22
READY-TO-WEAR
BEGINNING TO
APPEAR HERE
Local Stores Taking On Air
Of Fall AS Weather Is
Cloudy and Cooler.
MERCHANTS GETTING
BACK FROM MARKET
Resume of Styles That Will
Predominate in Clothing
And Shoes.

With the return this week of Col.
f. M. VanCleave, of johnson & Van
Cleave; of Mrs. Harris Morris, of the
Beckett Value Company, from New
York, and with the departure of j.
L. Holland and W. E. Sparks for the
markets, and with the daily arrivals
in the local stores of ready to wear,
shoes, hats, and accessories to femi-
nine apparel, the fall fashion fore
cast becomes of local personal inter
est.
Some one has defined fashion 'as
the efforts of one woman in 100 to
be ahead of everybody else, combin-
ed with the efforts of the other 80
to keep up"
Be that as it may, season by season
the natural human desire for change
expresses itself in the altering of
styles and as long as people are will
ling to pay hundreds of millions of
dollars a year for the privilege of
changing, style will be pertinent
issue,
1t is the consensus of the local
merchants that the fall fashions are
exceptionally alluring, and make a
radical departure from last seasons
styles. All skirts are fuller and
some shorter-ranging from 7 to 8
inches, with the extremists declaring
that they will get shorter and short
er,
Mr.. VanCleave says that 80 per-
cent of the coats, suits, and dresses
are navy blue, with brown a strong
second. A few greys, greens, and
tans in various shades are shown,
Bermuda, Madura brown, chestnut,
raven blue, pigeon grey, terra Gotta
are also among the shades that rule
Tricotine, velours, silvertones,
pom-pom, zebeline, and other soft
weaves are the leading materials.
Serges and mannish mixtures are al
so extensively used.
The suit models are severely tai
| lored for matrons and "the chicken
sizes" for misses and small women
have fancy straight lines and blouse
effects mostly snug fitting. Very
little fur appears on the suits, tho
other trimmings of buttons, embroid-
cry, and braid are to be found.
a popular coat model shows a belt
ed front and loose back. Fancy
coat materials are tinsel tone, cham
elton, and polo cloth,
Soft materials are given marked
favor in fall dresses. Beads, frin-
ges, and monkey fur are popular
dress trimmings. Fashion dictates
an apparently uncorseted silhouette
and every effort in dress designing
is made to preserve the soft contours
of a strictly feminine figure.
The all important hat question is
one of pleasing possibilities this sea-
son, according to the local milliners,
hats being both large and small and
of such delightful variety Of shapes
that there is certainly a becoming
one for everybody. Velvet is the
most popular hat fabric, but there
are duvetyn hats, velours, beavers
in cunning poke and jockey shapes
tams, tailored sailors, with trimmings
of ostrich, ospreys, and monkey fur
on others.
The fall footwear forecast is tempt.
ing and the new select styles that
are arriving in Paris every day in
dicate that the ladies here will bt
, well shod this season. Button shoes
are to be muchly worn. Two toned
; shoes are good, all blacks, but ths
prettiest fall styles are perhaps tht
browns-soft beaver browns anC
browns of darker shades. Vampl
are long and heels either military Of
French.