FASHION NOTES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3094, 28 May 1881, Page 4

FASHION NOTES.

large red plush fans mounted on gold stick are the leading novelty at Homo. Black satin and velvet, striped, in combination with plain black velvet, make one of the richest of dinner toilettes.

Market effect is given to sober-toned and black garments by the tendency to high colouring in the general styles of dress '1 he skirts of short dresses are fuller as a rule than they were last winter, but the front and side breadths have the same clinging effect.

Much to the disgust of glove dealers, ladies have taken to wearing dark gloves altogether in the street, and they last longer, it may be added that they make the hand loo* smaller.

Very becoming indoor jackets are made of navy blue Hindoo cashmere, with wide borders of Oriental cashmere of the brightest colours. Unfiles of yellow lace are worn around the neck and wrists. Quite new are gloves with some eight or ten gussets of a contrasting colour, let in at the upper edge—for example, a brown kid with blue, black with yellow, and so on. Un the arm they look decidedly well. H.R.H. the Princess of Wales, and other leaders of fashion, have of late adopted undulated hair, instead of tiny curls, to fall over the forehead. Small fringes of this class are the most natural-looking things possible.

Shirring gives a youthful look to a gown if skilfully employed. Elbow sleeves, when shirred, are pretty, and rows of shirring placed at intervals across the skirt makes the dress simple yet handsome. Instead of cutting the usual bias seam in a princess

waist, little shirrings are made in its place. The tunic, if caught up here and there by shirrings, adds greatly to tho effectiveness of a costume.

The evening dresses for the coming London season will be neither high nor low, there being a gradual return to the fashions of ten years ago. The Princess of Wales requiros that all dresses worn at Marlborough House shall havo sleeves, not shoulder straps, so sleeves, are de rigueitr in future. and the possessors of rounded arms and white shoulder-joints lament accordingly. But whether the sleeve be short or long, very long gloves aro essential. People who don't know about such things are apt to speak jestingly of twenty-button gloves. It's no joke for those who have to wear them and pay for them too. By one of those strange contradictions for which the rules of fashion are so famous, gloves are allowed to run into wrinkles on tho arm, but silk mitts must be drawn up tight.— "' Dido," in the San Francisco News Letter.