NOTES FOR THE LADIES.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 53, 7 June 1884, Page 5

NOTES FOR THE LADIES.

Thk redingote is deeidely suitable for tall girls of 15 or 16, and is a very convenient vOtement.

Velvet is still in great requisition for children's dressy toilettes, both for day and evening wear ; in such cases velvet forms a large part of the dress, and is not merely used as bands, which often trim plain walking dresses.

The woollen materials most in favour at

re.sent are broche woollens, and those with chequers and spots in velvet ; these are the best and most stylish of any for demi-saison costumes.

Mantles for ordinary wear, and to serve as waterproofs, are made of fancy cloth, and frequently have the large perlerine forming the sleeves and joining the back made in much the same manner as similar mantles for ladies.

The hah' with evening toilettes is worn quite at the top of the head, and with feather aigrettes at the side. The Suede gloves arc often trimmed with lace ; the favourite bhade is now the mushroom, the dark shade called " roux" having quite disappeared.

White or coloured English crape is the newest triming for evening dresses of silk or uncut velvet. It is gauged, puffed, and pleated, but is never laid in folds, as they are too suggestive of mourning trimmings.

A Russian Princess wore last year at a ball at Nice a dress made entirely of peacock's feathers, looped up with the birds' crested heads, in which the eyes were garnets.

Plain cloth jackets, and also those of tweed, are worn with morning walking costumes, while mantles and dolmans are made of the same, trimmed with chenille, with rows of braid above.

Rich warm reds will be worn even in the summer weather, and amongst other dark colours, copper, bronze, a lovely shade of grey which has a great deal of blue in it, and dead leaf greens. Gay blends of colour are introduced into the out-door costume?, and plain materials have trimmings of brocade.

Invisible hair nets are again in use. A very simple way of dressing the hair with one of them is to divide it into fovo parts and arrange it in puffs on either side of the head. The hair is crimped over the forehead, and the invisible net covers the whole back of the head.

A capote for visiting or evening wear may be of light-grey English crape. The shirred crcmn is of the same crape, and around the bonnet are two ruchings of black velvet, lined with silk. They are about five inches deep. On the right side is a small twisted piece of velvet that reaches to under the string. On the left side are a large grey velvet ribban bow and a grey and black bird's wing.

An exquisite material, of unique design, is of silk damask, the ground sea-green, with a spreading pattern of conventional " shell pink" flowers, curved lines of dainty porce-lain-blue meander over the satin, in appearance like the outline of a summer stormcloud, with the shining sun behind.

The " Argosy" gloves are made of soft kid in all fashionablo coloui's ; the cut is excellent and the sewing all that can be deshed. The tiny tassel which finishes the lacing can be tucked in or displayed ; it certainly adds a coquettish grace to this prettiest of gloves.

Black toilets covered with lace flounces are still among the most fashionable evening dresses. They may have waists open square or in heart shape, with the open part surrounded by a full lace niching. On the left side of the niching is a bunch of flowers. There are also black velvet dresses with long trains and plastron aprons of satin covered with beaded embroidery and drooping ornaments. These have waists that are embroidered and trimmed around the neck with several rows of jet beaded cording.

If there is any good in a man it is bound to come out ; but it should not come out all at once and leave the man empty. An Auckland wag lately sent a letter to Gisborne addressed " To an honest lawyer." The letter returned to the sender with the endorsement " None here." MrW A. Gibb, Dunedin, has gone to Sydney to manage the New South Wales branch of the National Insurance Company. Christchurch City Council is promoting a Bill, the object of which is to make the Managing Board of fhe Public Library, Museum, and School of Technical Science, an elective body returned by the Borough and County Councils in the Province of Canterbury. The natives of Tolago Bay, to the number of 1,200, have been holding a big " korero " on the land question. Messrs Sheehan and Reea were raresent.