FASHIONABLE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2844, 6 May 1882, Page 3

FASHIONABLE.

The writer of “ a lady’s letter from London ” to the “ Australasian ’’says “The drawingroom was not very largely attended. Ladies are afraid of f'a inevitable exposure to cold, and prefer towaitfor the May drawingrooms. I saw some beautiful dresses at a couple of “teas” after the Court ceremony, and-heard others described. 1 notice that rubies are the jewels most in vogue at present, and ruby color tho favorite tint. The immense size of tho fashionable bouquets is, I think, a mistake ; they give the fair bearers an encumbered look, but I have never seen flowers so beautifully “ treated ’’ as they are this season. Masses of uniform color, for instance, lovely yellow tulips or huge bouquets of pure white are tho alternatives. White lilac is almost ns plentiful in London this spring as it always is in Paris, and great clusters of the lily of the valley are carried in tho hand or worn on tho dress. A pale sea-green dross and train of tho richest satin, lined with blush rose pink, and adorned with bunches of real snowdrops, was among tho most striking of tho dresses which I saw. The ornaments worn with this were rubies and.opals, The dowers that used to be called common are all the fashion now—primroses, the jonquil,anti narcissus in all their varieties, and tlm rich deep scented wallflower. An absurd fashion has sprung up among what may happily be called the expiring soot of the “ aesthetes,” of wearing tulips at tho

neck upside down ; the steins'pinnod to the dress by a silver arrow. Tulips and hyacinths are wonderfully plentiful and gorgeous this year ; altogether lovers of flowers are in luck in 1882.”