Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1887 — A Column or Two of Chat About the Fair Daughters of Eve. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Column or Two of Chat About the Fair Daughters of Eve.

Together with a Few Notes on the Latest Styles in Feminine Attire.

Fall Fashion Flyers. Ihe truly fashionable belle is doing a double duty to the goddess of dress. She is finishing her summer season handsomely, and at the same time is getting her wardrobe ready for winter. The proper outlines for evening toilets, as fixed by the latest canons of style, are accurately shown in the first of these pictures. The materials may be anything within the considerable range of approved fabrics, but the shapes for grand occasions of finery cannot greatly depart from this illustration, unless the wearer be a bud, or debutante, as young girls are called during their first winter out. In that case two styles are illustrated in the second plate. Formerly, such maidens wore distinctly juvenile costumes, like that of the girl on the left; but now bare arms and low corsages are allowable, though the gown usually has, nevertheless, a girl-

ish air, as here shown. The drawings in both plates are from actual garments just made for September use for balls or receptions. Fashion writers sometimes do not hesitate to grind out information of the fall styles as early as August. But never until October will the public know all about the winter's glories of dress. Things are projected upon the public as fashionable that will never become so. Styles are described that will never be heard of on the backs of the modish. Some merchants in New York fix up the show-windows as ear'y as August 25 with loud devices in wool, but the custom is as foolish as eating oysters on a certain day for the first time, because there’s an “r”’ in the month. Many people spell “’Orgust” that fashion for the sake of getting in oysters on the uneducated; Sb with the big stores of Gotham. They eatch the unwary with unsalable' goods by their early displays. When the real styles get in their flaming inducements, the Macgregor plaids and the tele-graph-pole stripes are relegated tn the store-room, not to be seen till' the next summer. I am: acquainted with a piece of silk on whose orange* ground! rest

peonies in their natural colors and life size, that has decorated the showwindow of a Broadway dry-goods house ten consecutive Septembers. Some credulous women have bought breadths for panels, and in 1879 a lady from Ann Arbor purchased a dresa pattern off it. In other respects the original package is unimpaired. The Ann Arbor lady is said to have been consigned for treatment to a lunatic asylum in the spring, and it is an open question in Michigan to this day whether the purchase broke up a fine Western intellect or the purchase .indicated an intellect

already dfl the wan<- , there are genuinely new stoe/ 8 , ’ n BOme of the stores of this city. Tk e £ ener al tendency of taste and style can < e oa * ; * lined at this early day. The ers are coming home with their disco*-' eries. Dresses for autumn out-door wear show no more d stent on of bustle than was tolerated last summer, and it is to be hoped that a decrease of that deformity will soon ensue. Two contrasting styles are depicted. The draperies which characterize the skirt of one are absent in the other. The bodices illustrate the ingenuity of decoration nowadays achieved in mockjackets and plastrons. Big hats are st.ll seen, especial y on late sojourners at the resorts and mountain tourists. Striking suits of Scotch plaids, of loudly figured stuffs, and of violently tr.mmed goods, are worn by fair travelers. But it is safe to say that big hats will not be worn this fall for the best of reasons. All the skewers this side of the kitchen can not keep a Gainsborough on the head during No-

vember and the windy part of October. Two things may be depended on :: Jet will be as fashionable as ever —nothing takes its place—and birds’ plumage will hold its own on hats, especially the stiff wings and cocks’ feathers,, for the humidity lately so largely introduced into our atmosphere ruins an ostrich plume on sght. The importers are booming an immense stock of velvet flowers, leaves and such small fruits as grapes, plums and cherries made of plush. They are handsome, rich-looking things, but have a prim, set air of their own that imparts a flavor of middle age to the female face. That settles it. I have said a middle-aged woman under 75. One would suppose 150 years w r as the average length of life, if we took a lady’s word as to the dividing line. It is doubtful if the gorgeous, soft splendor of plush fruit or velvet flowers will ever amount to more than the decoration of the whoksale dealers’ counters. But lengthOof tulle, of gauze and various materials will be worn around hats and twisted about necks both fair and grizzly. It keeps the hah' in place; frills up neuralgic chink*, and is becoming to> all faces. The mode will be to wind a scarf about a hat, leaving at the back a streamer of at least a yard and a half. That will go once or twice

about. the neck. Some necks are so> much bigger than others that they must regulate the purchase. A yardt and a. half will be plenty for Mrs.. Trainees- Cleveland, but, if Grover concludes to conduct his fall campaign: with one, three yards won’t be an,inch, too- much. A glance at the two bodices pictured! will not only show some neat ideas in quiet decoration, but will give outlines alter which any ingenious woman, can. herself fashion, a dress waist by modifying the pattern which she ordinarily uses The devices are not difficult, although among the prettiest and most effective in the market. (Sleeves-range from the tight one long in vogue to- all sorts of loose; ones. It may be-believed that the era of skin-tight slteeves is over, and that a fashionable- woman will soon, for the first time itn> years* be able to lift her hands freely-to the top of her head without bursting-a. seaaa.— Chicago Ledger.

FALL OUTDOOR DRESSES.

TWO NEAT BODICES.