PARIS FASHIONS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 185, 8 July 1874, Page 2

PARIS FASHIONS.

A Correspondent in 7Xs Yomg Ladie? Journal for April, thus writes s—“ It is upon the details of trimmings that our imagination runs riot. Our dresses, excepting those for evening wear, of which, as I have said before, the trained skirt is perfectly plain—our dresses are as much trimmed and over-trimmed as our hats and bonnets. Skirts of two divisions are, it seems, now thought too plain. Many dressmakers divide them now in. four. The front breadth, called tablier, is flounced, furbelowed, ruched, pleated, bouillonnsd, Ac. The gored side breadths are left quite plain, except for one or two bows, fancifully chiffonnes, placed in the space between the knee and the edge of the drees. Then the back of the skirt is covered with an accumulation of flounces reaching very high up if the bodice is only provided with basques, or stopping just below the edge of the tunic. For ball-dresses, as well as for evening toilettes of more serious style, double skirts are now out of fashion. They are generally made with a single skirt covered with tulle, crape, or gauze bullions, veiled over by an ample skirt of illusion reaching down to the bottom of the dress, plain, or embroidered with spots or stars, in white, blue, mauve, or pink silk, or else with rosebuds or wild flowers. This veil-shirt is gathered up here and there with ribbon bows if it is embroidered with a single-colored pattern, or with bunches and trailing branches of flowers if it is plain white, or embroidered with the like flowers. Economical young ladies make the under-skirt of good Brussels net, which can be washed, and is less easily crumpled than illnsion, reserving the latter, material for the veil. Our wonderful bonnets are now more eccentric than ever. Becoming to a few faces, by far the greater number of the unfortunate creatures who wear them are singularly enlaidisse by them. Hummingbirds are often employed as ornaments, perched among gigantic bows and torsades. Young ladies” hats are generally turned up on the left side. One of the less eccentric, and, consequently, one of the prettiest, hats is the Louis XIII, of felt, with moderately high crown, encircled with black velvet; border turned up on the left side by an aigrette bow of black velvet, fastening a long curled ostrich feather, which falls over the chignon.”

Who was the straightest man mentioned in the BibleP Joseph: because Pharaoh made a ruler of him.