FASHIONS IN NEW YORK.
fAslf|i|;iN^iw :SXo^oW^^.-. :■ -:, ; The^r^a|si^|^oGul:; ver's T..irols" iaret ?dfleii%-lattgtted afc the descrip'. ioa f>f the tailors ytlyx made clothes by meni'S of malhematical cjlou'a! i'>ns. That wlnc'i Swift; in)eMeit. bh a i>aro>ly, i« _hoTV6Ter, 80iu:itly done at Hie proeuL time. As «ooa as a new fashion comei out iv Paris tlie propt'jetpr of n Isu'ge cst:ii)lislitnout iv New Ybi'k lias it vent out loliim, and lie has a foremen who, by means of mallietnatical. measurements, reproduces tlie pattern in thirty different *izps. itfn this way the belles of New York are able io be almost as .quick iv havins; ihe hist new sweetest thing iv bonnet 3 or robes ps the Parisian belles tTieir.aelves, andauva'ata^e which the first ,lurn -Io very good accoant. 'I'he( same pippriotoiv has a branch/eslablishme'it in London, bufc I Ao nofc thinlc c finds -Englishwomen quite so lavjsh'''in, their wnnlrobo esoejidi-'uve «s their, coiisins ocoss t'te Atlantic. I. must confess that I cmnol say much for the tasto of. (tie lnlesfc fnsli'oii' iv iN'ew York. The Herald snys t hat dresses coataining severiil combiuaiions of cojoi*, which a year ago would have been c^i«idered strnujje, are now worn. Eultons have berome a very important ilem of costume. I cannot by any words of lny own improve upon fhe foPowiug description, taken p fcom the above-, mentioned pajier :—Buttons will be largely used, aud while some may tidmive a daris blue ,or black button, Hie cou' rar.t afforded by ivory i»nd beaufclTol papierjnache the majority wilt prefer. For woolleu' cosluraes, buttons coverol with ihe material, not large, but sewu on in cluster*or a number of rows ou fhe front, cuffs, or( wlierevor the desisjn of dress mjy Ktt^geat," will be used.-—Correspondent of an Engljßhpaper. |
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Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 38, 6 July 1877, Page 3
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