PARIS FASHIONS.

Poverty Bay Standard, 4 September 1875, Page 2

PARIS FASHIONS.

The fashions of this summer are completely transformed from those of last year. The corsage with a waistband has entirely disappeared, and is exchanged for the cuirasse and the corsage a basques. Tabliers are put on over skirts in lieu of tunics, and mantles, separate from the costume, so long given up by fashion, are in vogue onco more. The large check patterns are a perfect fureur, combined, with self-coloured materials to correspond. Beige, tissues, diagonals, Sicilienne, mohair, foulard, Oriental cashmere, and armure, compose charming summer toilettes. The most elegant ladies do not new disdain to wear a dress of woolen stuff. They accept it, on the contrary, as the type of the fashionable toilette du jour. 9 The higher class takes the example from the lower, and our beau monde, instead of taking the lead, not unfrequently follow with regard to ladies’ chevelure. We remember the exclatna-. tions and protests provoked by the first sight of certain heads appearing, at the operik with frizzled hair, entirelv concealing (he forahead, and veiling the eyes, and even some portion of the nose. These dishevelled ones were looked upon as the laughing-stock of the house, and ladies, comme ilfaut wit)i£uxleaux all smooth, or simply waved, wera,jB|q most mocking and disdainful on the eubj%Bß;q|7the aberrations of this class of eccentno> a few years passed, and what happened ?' The vulgar and eccentric have become models, and ladies of the elite imitate them. Rough, frizzled hair has been as much in vogue as it once was the exception. At the races, in saloons, at the opera, we have seen ladies at the highest rank with their hair dressed most extravagantly, reminding us in the most comical way of those fluffy little skye terriers, who only perceive human beings ani bits of sugar through the mazes of their long, silken hair. Happily, this vulgarity of style is now abandoned by ladies bf taste, and overibadingM the head with those objectionable frizettes,! which would make themselves apparent, is left! to vulgar imitators of a worn-out fashion. The] more natural and simple style has returned I in the highest circles. ‘