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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 306, 11 September 1875, Page 2

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(ißOlt OUB OWN CORRESPONDENT.) July 12. FASHIONS. It may be said that it is only between two showers that one can obtain a glimpse of the fashions.; novelties are rare, and are mostly to be met with ornamenting the “ dummies ” in the dress-makers’ showrooms. At the Besselievre concerts, where the illumination is superb, and the votaries of fashion numerous, gauzes and transparent tissues upon bright silks, stuffs pliable and in .mild shades, hats lost in flowers, are what one mostly encounters ; the trimming for hats is worn as much back as possible; for town wear, the Watteau and the Marie Stuart hats, are in vogue; the former is made up in white rice straw or chip, broad-brimmed, with bows of lacp, and bunches of gold drops ; the latter is made of white crin, with silver galons, and pendant pearls, black velvet above and tuft of roses ; lily of the valley and white heath are trimmings also patronized ; for voyaging, the round shaped hat is the mode, it ought to incline forehead wards; for the sea side, the overturned strawberry basket shape, is the rage. The aumoniires are still a necessity, and are made up in leather or velvet, somewhat solid and ornamental with velvet or steel; they are either attached to the waist-band, or suspended from a crochet, and are larger than heretofore, and hence, more. useful. A very eccentric innovation has appeared, the Jeanne D’Arc chain, consisting of a series of large buckles in silver or steel, through which is run a colored ribbon matching the dress ; this chain garnishes the border of the basque euirasse, hanging sufficiently low in the jupon,' and terminating by a pretty hand-looking glass. Light, first class woollen materials are in request, and foulards have become a necessity; ecru, holland, striped percules, arc of course the concomitants of summer; grey is perhaps the predominating color, few loud shades are to be met with, but this does not imply that black reigns, on the contrary, it has fallen a little in esteem. At the sea side gauze veils have resumed their empire, and, aided with a wring and an aigrette, young ladies may safely be entrusted to make themselves a very pretty head dress, as also to arrange the coarse straw hat, sailor model, with its Neapolitan net. For the ndgligde toilette, collars and cuffs are mostly made up in blue linen; but for full dress, embroidery and lace are essential; white cambric with a pique hem, is very simple and elegant; the white muslin cravat is being superseded by lace, the older the better. Shapes remain unchanged, but boots and shoes must be in harmony with the dress ; the fan constitutes an integral part of the toilette, some correspond. to the costume even as to material, others are in black, white, or colored silk, with miniature paintings, embroidered spangles of steel, silver, or jet; it is from the waist, as regularly as were a watch, oftentimes a smelling hangs by its side. Cosmetics have fearful havoc with many features of producing inflammations difficult to ; one perfumery establishment is with several actions, so great the ravages its uses, intended to have caused ; the menaces have to opposition houses to offer large to whoever satisfactorily proves of their products have done harm; indeed to judge by French newspapers, their chief advertisements consist of materials for the dressing table ; anything new, provided it has an attractive name, is sure to sell; and don’t imagine the chief purchasers are ladies, their rooms as well as those of. gentlemen, resembling very much a chemist’s shop with its rows of bottles. Not long ago"an old beau died and left as legacy to his valet, all his stock of cosmetics, and to avoid these being sold at the public mart, the perfumer himself bought them in. It is no secret that individuals subscribe to these kind of “ out-fitting ’’ establishments as they do to theatres. Abstainers, and permissive bill legislators generally, will be delighted to hear, that the Jockey Club, where the crime de la ermee of French society congregate, and where it is as difficult to find admittance, as it is said for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven—take nothing stronger during the warm weather than an infusion of cocoa ; this cannot be called extravagance; the beverage is said to be a preventive of apoplexy, an accident not very general among those not rich in this world’s goods. There must be something wrong about the Eastern question; the “ sick man ” is becoming interesting; thus the young Turks annually sent to Paris to be educated as model Mahomedans, have been suddenly recalled; Turkey is bent on reform, so that henceforward no new loans will be required, and the interest on outstanding ones paid with a punctuality that ought to make a Spaniard blush, if Hidalgos be not past blushing as well as praying for. The Free Masons arc prospering, it is said every fresh Papal fulmination sends applicants in crowds to be admitted to the order, be this as it may, the election of the Prince of Wales, as Grand, Master, with all the orthodox “ Ws, has produced a most beneficial effect on the craft here ; Jules Ferry, the most statesmanlike of republicans and the first of drench orators, has been admitted

as a brother of the mystic tie, and Littre the author of the gigantic dictionary, has also been received, the better to vex the Bishop of Orleans, who fled the academy, rather than to sit nearLittre, though they look like lambs in the Assembly : there are accommodations, however, it is said even with heaven. Perhaps if the dissolution of the Assembly takes place before the arrival of the Greek Calends, the Republic may be able to fete an “ Independence Day,” as the American Colonists have just done, very quietly and soberly ; it is young America that enters most lovingly into the observance of the national anniversary; for one day only it is left to enjoy perfect liberty in tha bonbon and pastry cook shops; next day powders and portions, which answer to the brandy and soda water curps of parents and heads of families. There is an invention in mechanics that largely interests ladies, a new pedal has been added to pianos, by means of which, not a disagreeable, or grating, or scratching, or pulmonic sound, will dash the harmony that is struck out of the octaves; it is to be hoped that the delicate improvement may be appreciated by all parties to that most dismal of evening amusements —a piano entertain- j ment. Piety is to be looked after, it has ’ been calculated that the revenue of French churches would be quadrupled were the chairs put up for auction once a year ; this has been done in a few cases, but only think the purchasers of the best positions, are young men who rarely enter the building, they wish to be able to give their chair to some beautiful worshipper as they would their box at the opera; such a class of persons might benefit by joining the newly organised society for leaguing the bodies of its members to the medical schools, not that the supply of subjects is short, but to enlighten doctors and encourage science. Addison dissected fops and coquettes; an anatomical demonstration of some of thejeunesse dorie would not be uninteresting.