Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1901 — FRESH STYLES FOR FALL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FRESH STYLES FOR FALL.

Many New Thing:* Which Every Woman Wants to Know. Hints on the fashions of the coming winter which will assist In the early preparation of “something At to wear” are given as follows by a writer In the New York Herald, to whom nil opportune privilege has revealed some of the splendors aud luxuries of coming modes as brought over by a returned foreign buyer for a swell shop: This year’s styles fuIAU a tw'ofold mission. They make the stout woman look thinner, aud the slender woman becomes a dream of loveliness aud Shapeliness when she dons a princess effect gown, a Russian pelisse and a direetoire hat. Every skirt Is tight Attlng about the hips and very much Anred arouud the bottom, sleeves are small, collars are high, some basques are shown, and fringe Is the acme of novelty. The favorite model In skirts will be a seamless circular shape, littiug like a glove over the hips and back and daring at the bottom to the width of from 4Mi to 5 yards. This Aare Is very perceptible as the skirt Is held up, with one haud holding the bottom and one the belt. The front breadth, which used to be cut perfectly straight In order to insure a “good hanging skirt,” Is now perceptibly Oared lu the skirts, which are made on the gored pa’tern, which will also be very much worn. Of course the seamless skirt is suitable only for very slim Agures, as It outlines the shape too plainly to be worn by a stout woman. The perfect At and cut of tills skirt to make It hang properly will Insure Its exclusiveness. It could not be copied In cheap, ready made skirts and have any kind of style to it. The shnped Spanish Aounee is also very much In evidence and will be more popular In cloths than the seamless cut. as it is suited to almost any Agure. The upper part will still At closely, but the ttounce, allowing of so

much more of a flare, makes on the whole a more graceful fullness around the bottom. The skirts are just as long In front and train in the back as much as they have all summer. They may be disease breeders and microbe gatherers; but, for all that, lovely woman goes on her wny serenely, and her gown trails behind her. Most of the long coats have very sloping shoulders, with the sleeves cut In one piece with the body of the garment. All the collars, whether of fur, velvet, satin or silk, are soft and full, falling in crushed jabots from the neck. In fact, this softness and flimsiness are new features of the coming season. Everything— the cloths, the silks, the satins—is just us flimsy as it can be. To rustle is to he out of the fashion. To be that is to he out of the world. There are no stiff taffetas either for linings or petticoats. The woman who rustles la either wearing an old gown or is not up with the styles. All the new gowuß are lined with oriental satins, taffetas, mousseline and all the newest weaves of soft finished silks. Brown tan and pastel shades are mentioned us being the most in favor this coming winter, though there are some reds and a few blues. Fringe is the very iatest in novelties and will he the rage this winter. It will be made to order In colors to match the gown and will be used profusely. One of the simplest yet smartest gowns shown to the writer was a costume of shepherd’s plaid in a blue and white check. The lower skirt was devoid of any trimming, but flared considerably. The overskirt was a long, pointed of fair, fitting like a glove over the hips and finished at the bottom by a 12 inch woolen fringe of the same colorings as the gown.

STREET DRESS WITH THE NEW FRINGE.