PARIS FASHIONS FOR JULY.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 448, 17 November 1849, Page 4

PARIS FASHIONS FOR JULY.

The great heat of the weather only admits of the most diaphanous tissues for morning and evening dress ; rich stuffs being replaced by elegant transparent tissues, which can scarcely be manufactured with sufficient rapidity to meet the demand. The promenades and drawingrooms present an infinity of aerial muslins, gauzes, cashmeres, organdies. Cashmere bareges are quite in vogue ; the plain ones are very much worn ; the skirts are trimmed with deep flounces ; and a wreath of oak-leaves woven in brown silk on the barege itself forms a device of elegant simplicity. Book muslins are equally sought after, and nothing is more becoming for chez soi in the country ; especially full loose gowns of organdie, trimmed with lacp, over light coloured slips. Among these flowing muslius we sometimes see dresses of shot-silk; but, however light the shades may be they are rare. Artificial flowers are worn no longer, but wreaths of natural flowers ornament the hair and corsage. To maintain them fresh all the evening, the flowers are attached to wire, which is arranged in wreaths, bunches or bouquets ; geraniums thus placed are delicious. Mantles do not vary in form, but their cut has been perfected by a bending at the waist. They are worn in silk of light shades, with two rows of frills. The richest are trimmed with deep black lace, and some are braided. Mantles of embroidered muslin are much less fashionable; and large shawls of black or white lace are infinitely more graceful thrown over a dinner or evening costume than when displayed on a walking dress. The bonnets are regulated, too, By the temperature : Italian gauzes have almost entirely supplanted straw bonnets; nearly all the drawn bonnets are made with these ljght gauzes, puffed and trimmed with simple ruches over and under the poke for young people, and little bunches of the lightest feathers for married ladies. The shapes are still open and, round : they are very becoming either in forming a frame, as it were, to the hair, dressed in bandeaux, or in enveloping long curls. The bonnet trimmings are very simple, and are placed very low at the side. Caps are worn so small, and are placed so much on the back of the head, that is difficult to distinguish them from the head-dress. Thick caps for the morning are more than ever greatly admired ; they are usually made of Mechlin lace, old Valenciennes or pillow lace, ornamented with bunches of ribbon d Ith jardininfere instead of ribbon strings,, they have lappets placed a little behind the ears»