English and American Fashion Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 38, 23 February 1884, Page 3

English and American Fashion Notes.

Trains are fuller. Trains are not long. G loves are very long. Mask veils are much worn. Few trained dresses arc worn. High coiffures are again in favour. Sleeves remain very tight below the elbow. Small half-face veils are cither red or black. Dotted face veils are in high fashionable favour. Gentlemen's driving gloves have very I large gantlets. Jewels are much in favour for the hair at evening parties and balls. Figured velvets are much worn, but are never so elegant as plain ones. Tan-coloured Suede gloves divide favour with white and black gloves for evening wear. Children's dresses are all made looso about tho waist, in the late revived English styles. Short dresses are much in vogue for evening wear, even when the wearers do not dance. Velvet dresses will be worn ad nauseam at Christmas dinners and New Year's Day receptions. Gauzy stuffs, tulles, crepes and silk and Indian muslins are in demand for balls and fancy party dresses. Tulle, spotted or sprigged with silver, comes among other gauzy tinsel decorated stuffs for evening wear.

Madame Rattazzi's daughter Roma is a wonderful beauty. She is the god-daughter ex-Queen of Isabella. Mr Cross's " Life ot George Eliot " will be published next year, He has recovered nearly all her letters, which were all written with as much care as if intended for publicati©n. • Mrs Ruth Everett, of Salt Lake City, says that the Utah women who signed the petition to Congress protesting against any further legislation upon polygamy did so under coercion. Mrs Burnett, author of " Through One Administration," is at present engaged

upon another play. "lam very lazy," she says, "and although I've done an immense amount of work— l have written ten books, including the earlier serial* — I have accomplished it only with the greatest effort. I don't like to work, and I'm very lazy. Of course I work^ methodically. I go to my room, which is on the third floor, every morning immediately after breakfast, and stay there until luncheon. I «tay, but I can't always write. Sometimes I spend the entire timo walking up and down, tossing a ball, a habit I have, as lam obliged to use my hands when thinking,"