FEMININE FRIPPERIES IN AMERICA.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 298, 23 February 1878, Page 4

FEMININE FRIPPERIES IN AMERICA.

Gaxixkt is a dark red. Beige jet is dark amber. Rainbow jet is variegated. Sunset jet is amber tinted. Modore jet is bronze color. Very large buttons are all the rage. Moss green is the fashionable color. Cloak sleeves are rather largo and loose. Jacquard cloth is a new cloaking material. Black Chantilly lace is again used on bonnets. Clair do lunc, or moonlight gray, is the coming color. Cheviot tartans are among the novelties in wool fabrics. Cleft halo brims are among the novelties in bonnets. Carrick capos and Garrick caps are handsome novelties. Ncigueseaml bourette are the leading winter dress fabrics. Flat flounces, pleating, bows, and trimmings are de rigeuer. Floral trimmings for evening dresses are richer than over. Curled cock's feathers tipped with jet are very fashionable. Slate, gray, and orange arc fashionable combinations of color. Kilt pleats in the back of polonaise skirts are a feature cf the moment. Oriental, torchon, Smyrna, and Ragusa point are the laces of the season. Low, square-necked princess dresses are the most fashionable for evening wear. The prevailing colours for cheviot tartans are combinations of gray, blue, and red. Bustles arc no longer worn; throe flounces on the back breadths ot underskirts take their place. Beaded trimmings almost cover evening dresses, making them look as if studded with jewels. Cloak trimmings arc large buttons, aigraffes braids, and passementeries, velvet, silk and fringes. New styles of underskirts have flounces trimmed with open work embroidery in Fayal designs. French gray corduroy dresses are made up in very plain styles, with little drapery, but are richly trimmed. Coaching, Breton, and Serbian jackets arc simulated on many handsome polonaises and princess dresses.