FOR THE LADIES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 931, 2 April 1881, Page 6

FOR THE LADIES.

Muffs are an essential part of a dressy toilet. Jersey suits are worn by both boys and girls. Seal-colored plush wraps are very fashionable. Shot glace silks are very fashionable for demidlets. Satin is not a suitable fabric for young girls’ dresses. Scarlet jackets embroidered with gold take the lead. Long gloves are de rigeur with the demi-long sleeves. Fez caps of Jersey webbing to match suits are worn by little boys. Owls’ heads in cut jet, with yellow eyes, make fanciful brooches. Small boys wear knee breeches and jackets of ribbed Jersey webbing. Every very handsome costume has its muff and pelerine of collar to match.

No dressy toilet is complete without a lace jabot or cascade down the front. Monastic or nun-like costumes are all the rage with Parisian young ladies. Lace and crepe lisse flutings for the neck appear to be more popular than ever. Plain dark stockings of wool or silk, ribbed are the most fashionable at the moment. Ladies are beginning to wear turneddown collars again, either of cambric or of lace. Children wear large furry felt hats with very broad round brims turned up on one side. Silver serpents of the finest workmanship with jewelled eyes, are much worn by English women. Initial letters in hem-stitching, in block or old sampler patterns, are the latest fancy in handkerchiefs. Quiet-colored dark cloth jackets for dressy wear have collars and cuffs of velvet embroidered with gold. Clicking fringes of jet, with each strand of jet finished with a spike or ball, are among the handsomest trimmings worn. Little girls wear large turn-down collars of embroidered cambric, edged with lace and cuffs to match turned over the sleeves. Ladies who have dresses of grosgrain faille silks can make them fashionable by trimming them with brocades, or velvet, or with plush. She asked him if her new dress wasn’t as sweet as a spring rose, and he said it was, even to the minor attraction of having a little due upon it. A bright and beautiful woman having read two columns of an interview, in a society paper, with Bernhardt, heaved a reproachful sigh and exclaimed, “Ah! what a thing it is to have four husbands.” Parisian actresses wear paper lace a great deal. It is tough, soft, and so effective on the stage it cannot be distinguished from real lace. By these intelligent women it is consideaed the height of folly to wear a lot of costly lace, which may be ruined in a night,, when £1 worth of paper looks just as well. Queen Emma, the young wife of the old King of Holland, is mentioned as an amiable German lady, not pretty, but possessing honest blue eyes and kindly expression. She is devoted to her husband, obeying him in all things; while he passes his days in watching over her health and in talking and reading to her