LADIES’ EXPRESS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 281, 16 June 1875, Page 2

LADIES’ EXPRESS.

- o The Editor will be glad to give insertion to any local contributions from his lady friends that may be considered interesting in the family circle, or to the sex generally .J

:o: FASHION ITEMS.

The latest collars and cuffs in colour are of solid blue, pink, lavender, brown, and other shades. The collars are high, with flaring corners, and the cuffs flare to match. A new trifle for over-dresses and drapery is tulle so closely covered with silver spangles that it looks like a fairy fabric spun from silver threads. It is pretty; costly, and perishable—consequently, it will be popular. The ancient way of wearing deep linen cuffs outside the dress-sleeve is reviving. They are cut with a deep point on the back, are short in front, and are closed with three linen buttons on the point. Bonnets are not to be any longer of diminutive dimensions. It is to be hoped we are not rushing into the other extreme, and going to have extinguishers in lieu of wafers. Neither heads nor necks are to be longer bare. Great hangings will fall down behind; fuller brims will impend over the forehead ; and a vast veil, descending on the breast, is to imprison the shoulders, and be bound by a knot at the back. Hats are vanishing with the well arrived winter, and smirking misses and questionable mesdames are left to head dresses of a masculine nature. A good respectable bonnet, tied under the chin with stout bows, is to confront the terrible frosts predicted for the rest of this year and the beginning of the next. Apropos to ball dresses, I regret to say in the cause ef health as well as modesty that corsages are being worn very low, especially behind. Indeed, some of them would seeem cut almost to t e waist in rear. In front there must be a certain limit ; but dresses now fall to the very verge of that limit. Elizabethan ruffs are going out. They were pretty for slim persons with long necks, but for short, apoplectic-jowled ladies they were excessively absurd. Plain, large linen collars, however, will be worn with morning and visiting dresses. Jet—which has been for months past so much the rage —is dying the death. Feathers and fur replace it as trimming.

An English physician, during a lecture to a female audience on the use of alcoholic beverages, asserted that th* “ babies of London are never sober from their birth until they are weaned.”