NOTES FOR THE LADIES.

Evening Star, Issue 3520, 4 June 1874, Page 3

NOTES FOR THE LADIES.

LONDON DRAWING ROOMS, J TC. Wonderful anticipations of a season of exceptional splendour and gaiety are abroad, and the great Paris milliners are exultant, afadafue foment, who is the modiste most in fashion just now, has just returned to Paris, taking with her orders from English ladies to the value of L 80.000! The toilettes at the Queen’s Courts and the first Drawingroom were of unusual magnificence ;■ and the almost total absence of all jewels except diamonds was especially remarked. In this respect London is copying Paris. The beautiful young Duchess of St, Albans is quite the belle of the season. Her Grace’s dress at the first Court was very beautiful. It consisted of white satin and lilies of the valley ; but where the satin ended and the lilies began in what wonderfully fairy-like fabric it was hard to tell, She is so fair and penile-look-ing that in this floral robe, and with the soft •keen of splendid pearls on her head, neck frCTQS, find waist, she looked exquisitely poet’ ida)i arm unlike a mere fashion-book beauty. The tobei a fourreau, which I mentioned sometime ago, have not been extensively adopted here ; and the fashion has proved so ephemeral in France that the skirts and corselets of jet and Venetian pearl worn with them are; selling at half-price ; L4O instead of LBO, for instance. I believe the cause of the sudden decline of the reign of the fourf*ccw is that Mr Ferrier, the newly-sprung-up txyali of Worth (and also an Englishman), has declared against the style. ’ Man-millin-ensm has indeed reached a height in Paris when Worth trembles for his supremacy, and a third artist—l don’t know his name—is making bis fortune by acting as counsel in lr dressing and trimmiiig of skirts alone. ‘ The wearing of artificial flowers has revived vigorously. The ne'wost bonnets are laden with them, ' and ball dresses are profusely trimmed with bouquets and long-tai ed tendrils. ! I have just seen a beautiful ball-dress from Froment’s • it is of pale simmering blpe satin, and it is trimmed With silver leaves and lilies, in wreaths all round the train, the front of the skirt attached to the train by large bunches of the

eamc, and the sleeves (mere straps on the shonlder, with floating wings), are fastened with a bunch of silver lilies, which rest upon the arm. Tulle, starred with silver, is to be much worn by young ladies this season, and the Japanese sashes are superseded by sashes of glistening silver ribbon.