THE LATEST FASHIONS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 427, 26 October 1875, Page 3

THE LATEST FASHIONS.

The dresses of ladies will in future, in accordance with the latest Parisian fashions, be not only wonderfully but fearfully made. The Paris correspondent of the Warehouseman and Draper's Journal strikes the note of warning as to what we are shortly to expect, Designs, it is stated, are not only “ floral and geometric in their tendency, but zoological. Exquisite brocades are sprinkled profusely with lions, tigers, and panthers, “ mediaeval-looking beasts ” “ that are by no means life-like in their proportions or colouring, and far more nearly allied to the fabulous creatures in stone that decorate a Gothic cathedral than the savage denizens of a modern menagerie.” Artists, it seems, have also gone to museums and borrowed old heraldic device with which to ornament the robes of ladies who value their personal appearance. Unicorns, winged bulls, and birds are used profusely. Oriental writing, the hieroglyphics of the ancient Egyptians, Persian arabesques, and Chinese and Japanese signs, are artistically converted into patterns. One design is mentioned as being “ peculiarly pretty it is a scrawl studded here and there with keys some three inches long. There are at least thirty sorts of keys of different epochs, capitally rendered. Of all the pleasing novelties, however, which are being introduced there are none to equal a design in which “various insects are introduced.”