FASHION NOTES.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2390, 30 November 1881, Page 4

FASHION NOTES.

Lawn tennis Costume. A favorite trimming for cream cashmere this summer is to be the surflowor worked in various sizes in silks. I have seen one or two artistically arranged dresses with this flower embroidered on one shoulder, on the cuffs, and edging tho tunic ; the yellow shading and brown centre contrast well with the cream foundation. One style of dress was made with a plain underskirt edged with a plaiting some three or four inches deep. Above were divisions, marked by brown silk feather stitch, in which were worked detached flowers with a a leaf or two. A short tnnio was drawn well away from the front, and allowed to fall long at the back. The facing was brown silk which showed tho bodice was very full below the rowo of gauging that went round the throat, and there was a band round the waist, with a pocket on one side. The pocket was lined with brown silk, end had a sunflower worked on it. The sleeves were full at the shoulder, but very tight towards the wrists, and where the tight part joined on was a band and bow of brown ribbon ; just below the elbow a sunflower was worked on the tight part of the sleeve. The hat intended to be worn with this peculiar and so-called artistic costume was of cream muslin, lined with brown end ornamented with two sunflowers in a boWof lace on one side. Nun’s cloth is a favorite material, and in pale blue and brown striped looks very pretty; the plain part forms the bodice, drapery, and principal part of the dress, while the striped is finely plaited and used as trimming on both skirt and bodice. The plain and striped are usually sold together for a dress. The pretty plain and flowered sateens, profusely trimmed with laoe, worn with hats made entirely of cream laoe and ornamented with a tuft of flowers corresponding with the flowered sateen, are also much worn, and so are the grey-blue and pale pink ginghams, trimmed with Madeira work. For smarter costumes there are tho pale-colored Madras muslins draped over sateen or batiste, with loops of satin ribbon and ruffles of cream laoe, and the soft washing silks, with velvet collar, cuffs, and pockets, made with plaited skirts, and the deep Louis XV. coat, and trimmed with laoe and large fancy buttons. There is also a very light kind of cream, oatmeal cloth, which is used for embroidering upon. It is warm and yet light, and washes perfectly. The lawn-tennis dresses for real hard play have plain white skirts, with a length of the material arranged as a scarf across the hips, a full loose bodice and rather wide band. The pouch or pocket is fixed to the scarf, or whatever drapery there is on the left side. The more dressy skirts have two kilted flounces and the scarf or tunic above and a tight-fitting bodice, often with a movable cape.—" Queen.” Plum colour and peacock blue are both fashionable colors for the late summer or early autumn, and at the races at Goodwood the Princess of Wales wore them. On the first day her dress was of brocade of the firstnamed color, with a bonnet ornamented with purple grapes, and, on the second day, she had an an elegant costume of peacock blue silk and brocaded, with a velvet bonnet covered with currants.

A great many shot silks were worn, forming Trianon toilettes, as they are named, and the moires and watered silks we have mentioned before were in great force.

For half-mourning toilettes we have a novelty in the shape of black surah costumes, trimmed with flounces of, or edged with, white embroidery, which is j ust now even more fashionable than lace; these dresses only needing a broad sash to finish them. Very pretty are the embroideries of all kinds now, there being quite a rage for this style of trimming for tho various colonnades, satteons, and batistes, as well as the more expensive materials for morning and walking dress, amongst whiob white embroidered in colour, and coloured materials embroidered in white, are the most popular. Coloured laces are also used to trim both muslin and thicker washing materials, but they are not likely to have a long reign as they cannot be considered so pretty as the cream, ecru, and white ones.

Painted parasols are another craze, and we have seen many with landscapes and figures upon them as well as the more usual design of a spray of flowers. Bonnets and bats are more irregular and more undecided in shape than ever, but some of the former made of thin materials, such as tulle and gauze drawn on wires in the old fashioned style, with orowns of laoe, are very pretty and quaint. The hats, as a rule, rather wider in brim and flatter in crown, and are still overpoworingly heavy with trimming, although it consists most often of lace and flowers ; and it was quite a relief to see, worn by two sisters at a recent garden party, some simple but very pretty hats of moderate size made of white ohip, trimmed only with India muslin and laoe, and sprays of cool dowy-looking green leaves, the dresses which they accompanied being simply made ones of India muslin trimmed with laoe. Journal.”