FASHION NOTES.

Patea Mail, 11 June 1881, Page 4

FASHION NOTES.

Argent is the new name for silver strings. Old-fashioned paste buckles are now seen on ladies’ bonnets. No dressy toilet seems complete without a lace and velvet muff. Camellias and red carnations are both in favour as floral adornments. White vulture feathers are substituted for ostrich plumes on evening bonnets. Dark jackets of cloth have cuffs and collars of velvet embroidered in gold. Head dresses of feathers are more worn abroad than head dresses of flowers. No dressy toilet is complete without a lace jabot, or cascades of lace down the front. Round heavy balls of jet are worn on the scarves that are now so fashionable on dresses. It is hardly considered in good taste among ultra-fashionables to wear artificial flowers as ornaments. Long gloves are more and more fashionable. Arms are being covered, while the throat is being uncovered. The imported dresses are all bouffant in effect around the hips, but narrow and clinging at the foot. Bridesmaids wear wreaths of flowers matching their bouquets, and fastening on them small tulle veils. Dresses of gros-grain silk can be made fashionable by trimmings of plush, brocaded velvet or brocaded satin. The large satin bows that are worn on the corsage with the fichus are so conspicuous as almost to hide the wearers. Nothing can be more elegant and fashionable than trimmings for tea-gown made in lace, copies from the antique. Clicking fringes of white jet are worn on bridal dresses. Each strand of jet is finished with a large head or ball of jet. The favourite shades worn after black are dark shades of red, dark greens, garnets, violets, lapis-blue and seal-brown. Leopard-skin bonnets, with a solitary ornament of leopard’s paw with gold claws, are the choice of some eccentric ladies.