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Fall Fashions

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
September
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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Hat trimming will continue to be very high. Iloniton lace will be in liiirhest fasliion for bridal toilets. Lace jabots will be nuicli worn, but thoy will be calltd steiukirk. ölde panels are going out. Front bands or draped panels will take their place. ïlnire will be used for trlmming serge dresses, but scarcely in nny otlier way. Next winter will be einphntically a "silk" as distinguUhed from a "woolen" season. The most fashionablc women in Paris are wearing their gowns without the tournure. Coat basques with long square side pieces, below on the hips, will be used tor demi-saison toilets. The puffed sleeves have liad their brief day. Straight sleeves will rule during the fall and winter. Silk tapestries as thick and rich as upholsterers' goods inay be used to trim woolen dresses. Shot and shot velvets will bc combined in expensive toilets tliis fall, and the result will, as a rule, be hopelesMy urly. Blown glass beads nul pcarla are ccrtain to bc among the most fashionablc of lic-s triinminus during the fnll and winter. Halioeany and the varlous Florentlne reds will be fiivorite shades for Street weur next winter. Tliey are certainly warm lookinjr. Dr.iped and folded vests will remain a feature in most fall and winter gowns. Etepped silk, Bengaline, and velvet will be used for tliem. What used to be callcil (he "Pierrot ruil" will next winter be known as the "Hoi de Rome" collar and finlih off tlie neck of many a bodkv. Dreasinaker who pleat mul gatlipr a quantity of stnfl'about the drefs-wearer's liiiure are not lollowing the best models. Simplicity will rule next winter. Headings this fall should be of the sanie tone as the foundation, and the bciuls must be so liberolly used that but verj' little of the foundation eau be seen. French women will ding to the big plaMl wbic'i lmve iuu all summer, but Kugliüh womi'ii will have none of them, so tliey will be dangerous experimenta be re. Single colored truvelini gowns for eulj fall must be elther gray, Gobelin blue, or fawn color trimmed wiili BengalIne of the same suade. The basque should have no vest. The long, straight polonaises, whlch will be made of heavy material for winter wenr, IhmiU1 not be cauglit up in the blpa, but be cut in flat pleats behind, ■■doping uway at the sides to disclose the skin beneath, which will beentirely concealeil elsewhere. Simple and beautiful house gowns of cloth or camel's hair will be made witb a round waist, and single skiit wldely bordered with iur, gray, blue, sable, beaver or Astrak ban to suit the color of the material. Passimenteries of applique silk cord, with fur introdueed, may nlso fonn these borders. In tailor-made gowns smootb-suifaced cloths will stlll be used for dressy suits, two markedly contrasting colors in mm Mátame, the lightur color for lower skiit and vest, the daiker lor the basque and drapery. Tbus serpent green over gray, imd dark blue over tobáceo brown. Jacket in the daiker color. Small mantlcs and sboulder tapes of the two colors in comhiiiaüon.

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Ann Arbor Courier
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