The Fashions.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 6 January 1891, Page 3

The Fashions.

# (Miss Mantalini) The newest fad in hairdressiug is for wavel hair. Curled hair will disappear altogether when our English coiffeurs have learned how to produce a permanent wave. Monseiur Marcel, a ce'ebraled coiffeur in Paris, is malring his fortune by waving ladies' hair. He charges 2l) f or more for an operation. The undulations remain for a mouth. Monsieur can turn a stiff lank head of hair into a hundred graceful ripples The wave he makes is a beautiful water wave, not the hard stiff wave ordinarily produced by hot irons. Our leading London hairdressers have been rat-king their brains over the matter these three months without making much headway. I hope somebody will solve the mystery befo; c long. It would be nice to get away from curled hair for a time after getting such a surfeit of it The latest imported hat resembles atarabcurine. It is (rimmed in almost the same fashion as the bolero. Brunettes are wearing scarlet more than over this season, just a dash of it in the bonnet, the muff, and at the throat. Many of the handsomest winter bonnets have fur borders. A becoming bonnet in amber velvet was tiimmed with sable tails and had a Vt lvet brim the same colour ac the fur. Another bonnet, ma«le of velvet in dark tone of brown had by way oi ornament a couple of small steel daggera arranged crosswise right in front, Jet trimmings are on the wane One can see very little jet on any of th« new French things. For women whe dout like the toque, and who coald'nl wear the fashionable broad brimmed tat if they would, the milliners ar*

contriving some attractive compromises.-.. They are fining down the already shjill^v? oro^ne, • curtailing '.he back and sides, and allowing only a snm'l protuberance in front. Trimmings vary little this Winter, being confined in mio?t oases to velvet and feathers. Teagowna hate become very simple garments indeed since the. designed have ceased to rl#g the change' § oh' sleeves. Those tor young . weare'-Sj are mado of one material instead 6't two as fcrmevly. Lace is the stupe trimming. Black lace is used pretty freely to lone clown lively co'.oirs. A teagown in poluioh pink, for in?tan?e, bad the bodice portion half smothered with lace, and there were cascades o-'l.aee oit the skirl. This gown wa-? fastened, about tbe waist with a ribbon girdle. Yellow and black is )»ossii>ly a hackneyed mixunv, but, all the samp, if's popular. It suits equally well a brunette or a blonde. A stately teagown for a middle aged matro i, a dowager perhaps, was made of two materials i black brocade with tiny yellow flowers, and yellow crope do Chins. The heavy material formed tho train and the light stirrf drnpfed the front. The bodice portion wapuffed to the waist, and of course the neclc was furnished with au Elizabethan collar. This was cut in a nioro graceful fashion though than upuml and stood out well from the rock. The lining — ei-tye de Chine and osirich feather— tinned an effective background for the weaver's face. Grecian draperies look out of place on commonplace figure?, consequently fashion has abandoned them. in . ■, l — i_r" «»■■—" ---ir..iii ■ .....Ml