Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1878 — New Fashions In Cloaks. [ARTICLE]

New Fashions In Cloaks.

The first importations of the seasou are eagerly watched for, as they indicate the fashions for the coming winter. From these it is evident that long circular garments with simulated sleeves, and short sacque cloaks, will he equally fashionable. Most of the cloaks are black, the light colors which were used last year not having any place this season. Diagonal cloth, lleeee-liued, is to be worn, and black “ moussa” cloth interwoven with silk, which forms a rough knotted surface. One cloak, a circular with long sleeve pieces, has an admirable arrangement for making the garment a walking or a carriage cloak at pleasure. The sleeves are held in place by invisible buttons, which, when unbuttoned, allow the front .of the garment to be drawn forward, thus forming a cloak which may be worn for sleighing. It is trimmed with a deep band of velvet and cordelieres of silk; these cordolieres, or cords and tassels Of silk, are much worn; sometimes they are festooned across the front like the cords on a military garment, sometimes they hang loose in Front or at the back. All kinds of rich gimps and passementeries are much employed, in which finely-cut jet beads are profusely used; the colored bead trimmings are out of date. Dressy cloaks are made short, about thirty-seven inches long. These have various trimmings; narrow folds of alternate silk and satin, lapping each other, form square pockets ana cuffs, and are edged with marabout or handsome flat trimmings; grass fringes and fringes mixed with strings of fine jet are also used to finish the edges. A new clonk is called the “Turkish,” on account of a peculiar front formed by revers; this cloak also had a very graceful back cut into the figure, and nnibsed with a narrow piece set on do wn the middle of the back. A very natty and taking article is the hunting coat, iri velveteen corduroy. It consists of a short cutaway coat, like an Englishman’s shooting-jacket, and has double-breasted front with handsome buttons; no trimming is used except on a dark brown eorduroy, which has velvet cuffs and collar; the grays and mouse-colored ones are plainly stitched on the edges. Ulsters are made in all the newest tweeds, and these, together with circular cloaks, wilj be much worn. The circulars have peculiar pointed capes to finish them — N. Y. Evening Post.