NEW STYLES AND COMING FASHIONS.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1805, 4 December 1879, Page 4

NEW STYLES AND COMING FASHIONS.

1“ Milliner and Dressmaker.” I The summer fashions have been as brilliant and as startling as fireworks. On all sides have been splashes of red, of yellow, chocks, tartans, and palm designs of immense size. Now, with the closing season, this exaggeration is at its height. All kinds of extravagances arc Been in foulard costumes. Every possible design in pockothandkerchief dresses is accepted. Enormous cashmere stripes and palms have the greatest success, aud are considered both pretty and elegant. For our own part, we are of the opinion that it is the woman who wears them who imparts her own elegance to these toilets, and that if they were adventured upon a short and thick figure, nothing could possibly be uglier. For this reason, friends, fissure yourselves, before donning a Marie Antoinette or Florian costume, that you have a graceful and supple figure. If you have not, (content yourself with the quiet aud plain materials which suit everybody and pass unnoticed. The key to tho ioikta for the coming winter will be antiquity of stylo. It is entirely to bygone modes that we are to resort, as has been the case during tho summer ; but tho whole style will be heavier, so as to suit batter with winter materials. Wo have seen a costuraa of a fcourgeoiec of the twelfth century, which was very exact. The cut of the whole has an ancient air which distinguishes it from the refined elegance of the present century. We shall see if this toilet will be copied. Perhaps it is only a tentative effort, sent forth to try the public taste.

White embroidery will be more than ever in favor, thanks to the perfection with which it is made. The simple embroidery on batiste or nainsook, so much worn on light dresses in the summer, will be impracticable in winter. In order to make it suitable to fabrics like satin and velvet, the outlines of the designs are followed with a small thread

of fine gold, which gives relief and richness to the modest stitches of white thread. We have noticed a magnificent toilet of beaverbrown satin, with scarf and bodice of the same material broche with Pompadour flowers, trimmed in this way. It is a new manifestation of the rage for oriental embroidery which has possessed us for some time.

Little girls of from eight to ten wear jackets of every kind of shape, paysanne vests and bodices with, generally speaking, a pleated skirt. The jacket opens over a Pompadour waistcoat, or one of the plain white pique. The choice of the stockings and ribbons for little girls needs tho greatest care. When the', drees is of n very decided color, the stockings should bo au ex>*ct match ;)but if the.tiat is vague, indefinite, or pale, a contrasting color should be chcsen which will set off to advantage the color of Ibe dress. Thus, with certain shades of beige or grey, stockings of Scotch tartan in gensdarme blue aud caroubier (red) go well. Mixtures of color should be avoided in children’s costumes. Even more than grownup persons, they require great harmony aud a kind of uniformity in the ensemble of the toilet, partly because they are always moving, running, jumping, excited, aud partly for the reason that their want of height brings the various portions of their costume closer together. White skirts are at the height of favor. Every day sees prettier and richer models of these. One is of nainsook, trimmed with three small bias flounces, at the edge of each a fine frill of embroidery is gathered, and this again is edged with Valenciennes or guipure. All these shades of white produce a charming effect. The transparent nainsook is made still more transparent by this mixture* of embroidery aud lace. The point d’esprit net, after having tried to drive Breton lace from the field, is now waging war against crepe lisse. Many handsome dresses aro trimmed at the neck and wrists with point d’esprit net mounted upon muslin. Evening fichus will be made of it for winter wear. Thick shot velvets will be used this seasou for winter hats and bonnets. Even flowers will bo shaded with contrasting tints, with a new aud metallic effect of coloring. Fruit is just now greatly worn on bonnets and hats Peaches, apricots, and almonds have now their reign, and they ate made in such perfection that they would deceive even the birds themselves.