PARIS FASHIONS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 417, 7 October 1876, Page 3

PARIS FASHIONS.

There are several new dust cloaks introduced at this season o£ the year, and “ duster " is the name now given them by manufacturers. Silver grey alpaca is the material used, and some of them have as many as five small capes at the top, simply stiched all round. The cloaks are long, and are fastened in front with ribbons ; they are very light, and, being waterproof, guarantee the wearer from rain as well as from dust. As regards hatsand bonnets, everything without exception, is warn ; those with broad brims as well as simple hoods or round peasant hats, trimmed with lace and flowers. Formerly bonnets were worn pitched forward on the nose, orbackward on the nape of the neck, or else pitched on the crown ; now, however, they are worn simultaneously in all these different fashions; ad. libitum, and according to the fancy of each individual. Among the various accessories to the toilette we have noticed the following items ; Gold braid is more used for handsome dresses than was expected. It is carefully introduced in threads and dots of gold on black galloon for trimming black grenadine dresses. . Silver braid is the trimming seen on the most elegant costurnes of grey camel’s hair Gold em broidery on hnen cuffsand collars is certainly an effective novelty that, let us hope, will fail to be popular. A single long loop of ribbon or of the dress trimming is sewed on the demi-trained skirt of costumes, and the skirt is raised to a proper walking length by passing the hand through the loop and holding up the demi-train. Long trains of evening dresses are raised in the same way. But the new Princesse dress is the dress that is making the greatest fureur at this moment. Imagine a fourreau made as tightly &s fourreau cau be made, and with a long serpent-like train falling at the back. This dress, you cover with frills or plaiting to' about one-third of a metre below the waist. The upper part of the skirt thus forms a long cuirasse. Then, joining to, or separating these flounces from the cuirasse, is a scarf, which is tied round the figure, and falls at the back in long ends. This is a mixture between' the Princesse robe and the “Baby” dress. Jt is remarkably pretty. For out of doors, another scarf, of the same material as the dress, is worn over the shoulders. Nothing is so much worn now as scarfs, for dresses without tunics..