NEW STYLES AND COMING FASHIONS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1996, 17 July 1880, Page 2

NEW STYLES AND COMING FASHIONS.

Little dots on dreEses and bonnets are very fashionable just now. There is an endless variety of arrangement in these dots as well as of colors, and from these the style ischosen according to the age of the intended wearer, or the occasion for which the costume is intended. For young girls, blue or red spots on a grey ground, or dots of a light shade on a darker of the same color, the trimming consisting of material of the same shade with dots of some bright color. We have seen a costume of this hind in beige satin de la hie, with dots in shades of beige, and all the trimmings beige and blue. The edges of the tunic and of the bodice were cut out in small tabs under which were sovfflets of the blue-dotted material. Even the collar was cut out and filled in after the same manner.

A pretty drees for a child of five was dotted with old gold. It consisted of a pleated skirt, a jacket, and a waistcoat. A large sash of myrtle green surah passed oyer the waiatcoat and formed a how at the end of the seam under the arm.

Indian cashmeres have taken the place of furs, en attendant the milder weather. These shawls are worn for ceremonious calls, hut for every, day walks and drives a marked predilection is exhibited for the coquettish visites in red Indian cashmere. All kinds of shapes and trimmings are to be seen. The visite with square sleeves, in medium sized stripes, trimmed with handsome fringe, cord, and tassels, is, perhaps, the prettiest kind of this sort of vetement. Add to this a lining of red or of old gold satin, and the visite will _be charming. For summer some pretty visitemantelets are prepared. There is the ordinary form with trimming down the back and round the edges, but prettier and newer than this is) the pelerine trimming, which simulates a cape by means of rows of fringe or braid. There is nearly always a deep satin or lace collar. This visite suits young girls and slight figures. Parasols have already made their appearance, and are larger than they were last year. The rage for having every detail of the toilette to match the dress increases with every fresh edict of fashion.

I am glad to say that birds and wingß no longer appear on the most fashionable hats and bonnets. The trimmings of these consist solely of flowers, grasses, good lace, and soft broche material?. Shining yellow straw is much seen in bonnets. These are trimmed with a bunch of ilowers, a knot of ribbon, a chou of lace, or a drapery of brown satin or velvet.

Saffron colored lace is much used on bonnets and hats. It assorts well with the old gold still in such favor, but thereis somedanger of the being carried to extremes.

Gold is used most plentifully, very few of ■ the new Bpring bonnets being entirely without a soiipcon of it—gilt slides, buckles, and pins, loosely woven gold lace (in style like the Belgian Torchon), gold brocades, cloth of gold, gold braid, bugles, and beads, as well as gold net, a novel and most exquisite fabric. These are made to harmonise with tissuss in every shade of ({old color and flowers in all the tints of yellow, from the palest lemon to the deepest marigold, while they in their turn are combined with red, black, very light pink, and finally mauve, green cropping up merely in the fcliage of the flowers. Strings, as a rule, are made exclusively of piece material. I noted strings of red satin, especially a rich ponpy color, vieil-or, satin, plain and figured, scarlet satin with round or oval spots brocaded upon it; strings in mauve satin lined with pearl grey, in violet satin lined with mauve, in a vieil-or damask called "foudre," which has vermillion zigzags irregularly distributed ovee it; in golden net, in white striped gauze imitated from the Greek muslins, and in white gauze as fine and soft as the finest Indian muslins. The prognostications of last month are being fulfilled concerning the size of the bonnets, the majority of which are decidedly much smaller, while some are very small indeed. A few assume the old coronet shape, but the favorite forms are the modifications of the Directoire and the Empire, the former much simplified. The bonnet sets close to the head, and is more or less concealed beneath the twists and folds formed by the the strings, which are cut in a single piece and carried across the back. The front pokes forward more or less if a Directoire, whereas the Empire sets round to the head; nevertheless, in both caßes the brim is usually lined. Eor the Directoire, the most intricate styles of gathering are used. The following are some of the most attractive bonnets and hats that have come under my notice: No. 1. A good sized bonnet, with a poke front, in white Tuscan. It is lined with cream colored twill, closely gathered. The strings, of fine gauze edged with light gold lace, are kept in place at the sides by two gold filigree brooches ; across the front and down one side is placed a wreath of exquisite pink and pale yellow monthly roses. No. 2 is also a large bonnet of the Directoire shape in Tuscan. It is lined with pearl grey satin, the strings being deep mauve satin lined with pearl grey, and the decoration a bunch of large double poppies, two in vieil-or and one in deep mauve satin. No. 3is small in size. It is in straw (rows of Tuscan sown alternately with a shiny white straw), and has strings of poppy red satin, and a beautiful wreath of yellow roses, surmounted by a spray of crimson wallflowers. No. lis composed of gold braid and little drops of gold beads and jet, the edge being ruched with gold lace. A bunch of red and yellow roses forms the decoration, and the strings are in net made of fine gold thread, beautifully soft to the touch. No. 5. A Tuscan straw bonnet, has strings of old gold damask, and is trimmed with a gold bead edging, a wreath of marigold yellow roses, and a spray of crimson wallflower. No. 6is peculiarly small. The material is Tuscan, the strings rich mauve satin. Bound the edge is sewn a double row of fringe made of silvered bugles, and on one side is placed a bunch of sulphur-tinted roses and heliotrope. No. 7. Abo a Tuscan bonnet, has very wide strings of striped eream-whito gauze, edged with Drittany lace, and a fringe of mignonette blossoms all round tho front. A bunch of pale-pink monthly roses and a sprig of yellow mimosa complete the decoration. No. 8 is a Coronet bonnet of black net, tied with wide black net strings and ruched with flue narrow gold lace, the trimming being cowslipß (of three or four shades of yellow) and wallflowers. No. 9. A small capote in buckram entirely covered with closely-sewn rows of small black bugles. Across the front and down to the ears is arranged a long narrow ecarf of goldcolored satin voloute, which forms the strings. Two black ostrich tips bend forward over the front of the drapery.