LATEST PARISIAN FASHIONS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1952, 24 September 1888, Page 2

LATEST PARISIAN FASHIONS

(J7ROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT J In this month tf the year, there is not much to tell about a change of dresses, skirts, robes, and hats. Thd whole fashionable word haa gone to one or other pleasure resort. Dieppe, Trouville, and a hoßt of other watering places have the honor of lodging our fair Parisiennes, who are not coming back before the en.d of September. In order, however^ not to lose our time, we will utilise this article by speaking of this year's fashions m jewel'ery. Many of the eaatnelled flower brooches are quite as effective as those composed of stones, and perhaps more real looking, as, for instance, the Parma violet m opaque pale lavender enamel, tho deep purple violet of QU.r own woods and glades, the crimson-tipped daisy, tho quaint peablossom, and the gaudy tulip m translucent enamel, the snow-white edelweiss, the blue corn flower and crimson poppy, the delicate, cyclamen and the fantastic orchid. The revival of the miniature brooch may be eaid to have marked an era m modern jawellery, it brought the artistic element once more to the f< ra. Dainty smiling Marchionesses of the Pompadour period, " merveilleuee?," m plumed hats, psendo Greek ladies of the first Empire, and oval faced romantic be'les of 1830, with many others besides, And depicted on fj cc circular oy. ov^l brooobep, fraraai \n a rim of gold or set ia diamonds or pearls. Returning to eimp'e shapeß, we find a large percentage of horao chocs, and trefoil. All kindu of colored stonea are set m horse shoes, si»pp.hires, rubies, turquoises, ani lobe«3h'ipid pearls, carbuncles, turquoisea and rubies are used for the /eaflets of the fashionable trefoil, and are worn not only as brooohes, but as pendents for the throat and clasps for handsome bracelets. Ftars are best m brilliants alone and keep their old place and their old supremacy, like the precious stones of which they are composed. A crowd of what may be termed ornlthologloal brooches are being exhibited m the shop windows, newlyhatohed chickens jumping out of broken egg shells, a hen with brood of ohioka, & cook m tha oompany of his better half, or finding m the straw the fabled pearl, a hen sitting on her nest of pearl egg?, and a whole crowd of fowl, b'.rn-door and all. The birds thenuelves are, almost with* oat exception, oompoied of small diamonds, clustered closely together and set In silver. The list of diamond brooches Is rich m variety of design, commencing with such fanolful productions as the above— hatdly ever measuring more than an Inch m length — nntll they reach the Importance of the Bouqutt de corsage* A flock of wild geese, or lets proßalo swallows,, fastened to a straight bar of gold, or, better, by a silver spring, that will be concealed among the laoe trimmings of the bodloo is a oharming cod oil t. Bunchea of hawthorn or apple tree m bloom, carnations, popples, narolssua fhwers, hyacinth spikes, and the delicate bells of the llly-of-the-valley, with their atteciaut leaves, a head of dandelion seed, fern-frondi, sprays of ivy or bits of holly are all made op of clustered diamonds, save, perhaps, the berries, which may bo pearls, and the thistle-down feather-flakes inserted In the metal. A small daisy plant, with two or three flowers upon It, is reproduced In diamonds mounted on a sold foundation. Then, there are the animals and heads of animals la diamonds, quite a small menagerie of the former. Of the heads those of cats and doga arc preferred, the oati generally baviug colored eyes, eyes of aluminium labrador, or oat's eyes. Bees, espf c'ally of the humble sort have been In great request for some eessons past. Pfttli, July 30, 1888,