PARIS FASHIONS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 335, 22 December 1875, Page 2

PARIS FASHIONS.

These is another novelty of the season, which is called a visile, because if protects .the dress when one is driving to pay visits in the country. The vttement is a great success this season. It is of ashgray cloth, trimmed with narrow braid, with tiny steel spangles and a marabout fringe of the same shade round ail the edges. Indeed, braid is extremely fashionable, and it is put on in wonderful quantity upon all new toilettes, fringe being frequently added. Tassel fringes, with deep net-work heading, is the most fashionable of all. A new style of tunic is in great vogue in the fashionable resorts of our Southern climes. It is tight-fitting behind with loose fronts. This tunic first appeared at Dieppe upon the beach, for morningtoilette, and was made of toile or batiste. But it is now worn of embroidered cashmere, with two rows of buttons in front, over a silk or velveteen skirt. The last fantaisie in straw hats is a loosely-plaited sort of little panier, brown or black, trimmed with velvet or ribbon, finished in two long lapels behind. These strange little hats are really very like small baskets of coarse-plaited straw j some are even of wicker. They are caugh t up on one side with two blue birds’ wings, or four small swallows’ wings, and upon the opposite side the hat slopes down with a small cluster of flowers.