FASHION SPRAYS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2166, 3 February 1881, Page 4

FASHION SPRAYS.

Striped silks are revived in Pari*. Stefano is the name of a new shade of dark claret.

Changeable plashes are used for bonnets and strings. Claret-colored kid gloves are among the novelties.

Wide velvet collars, bordered with fnr, are very stylishly worn. Plush and brocade coats are very stylish, and are worn with skirts of any material. Ladies now embroider deep flounce* of black satin or cashmere for their petticoats. Shirred waists are very much worn by quite young girls. Buttons of pearl, opal or Rhine pebble are used for fastenings for gloves. High standing ruches and {raises for the neck are more in vogue than ever.

Designs from the 44 Pirates of Penzance ” and 44 Pinafore ” appear on the new tidies. A new fringe of chenille is called sealskin fringe, from its resemblance to that for. Large bouquets of flowers are now placed in the centre of the bodice, about the sixth button from the top.

As dresses of old style are so fashionable the hair will be elaborately dressed and powdered, after the ancient regime. Plaque bnttons of pearl, with grapes and leaves, cherries, currants and blackberries of enamel are among the new buttons. Jackets with short fronts which resemble gentlemen’s dress coats are worn over very full skirts, absolutely without drapery. Very elegant fichus are imported, made of brocaded velvet in Persian colors and trimmed with passementeries at iridescent beads. Broad velvet sashes are worn, tied at the left side in a careless knot. They are gaily lined and-finished on the ends by shirring and tassels.

The-English women have taken up Turkish embroidery, all for sweet charity’s .sake, and several hundred of the widows of Mussulman refugees are living on an income derived from their work.

A new receptacle for flowers is" The Hunting Hat,” a bat shaped like a beaver in straw, adorned with streamers of gauze or silk and bunches of roses or smaller-flowers. There are also decorated slippers, boats of bronze or oxidised-metal, wheelbarrows for table ornaments and ‘Pompadour baskets to be worn at the side, lined with silk or satin and filled with flowers.