AUTUMN WALKING COSTUMES.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2143, 7 January 1881, Page 3

AUTUMN WALKING COSTUMES.

New costumes in preparation for autumn discard much of the patchy trimming which has been in vogue recently, and follow the style of summer travelling dresses, which have been largely made of plain woollen materials of light texture, in dark green, dark blue, and gray. Dark green and stone grey are favorite shades, and the newest modes show walking-skirts shirred at the back, a trimmed or apron front, and a bodice with or without basque at the back, and straight across the front. Some of these are accompanied by a round mantle, with hood to match ; the hood lined with a color. Another style consists of skirt and straight coat, cup up into lappels, and ornamented with heavy cords with spiked ends. These are usually lined with a color when the material ia plain, but quite frequently the coat is of silk or woollen brocade, and some are being made of velvet. When plain woollen suits are lined with a color, tho rod, or whatever it is, re-appears at tho nock aa a handkerchief, the corners of which are no longer concealed, bnt are fastened down flit, so as to form a small three cornered flohu. This autumn bordered and embroidered handkerchief will be used for the neck ; that is, handkerchiefs embroidered iu border patterns. Some have been used this summer in white pine-apple silk, with gold embroidery, and as the autnmn advances the handkerchief will be embroidered and trimmed on as part of tho dress, or a round collar will take its place, which will extend down upon tho front.