The Fashions.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 285, 28 July 1888, Page 4

The Fashions.

Kmciv Silk Dkhssls. — (Jolouicd decorations for black bilk drosses aio a novelty. 1 have seen some black peau de sole dresses tiimmed with a band — ib is hardly wide enough to be called a panel — of plush, embroidered with gold thread arabesques and framed in on each side with jet pessomentorio. Light nioss-green, old gold, Dubai ry pink copper-colour, and heliotrope aro nil applicable to the purpobe and look well with They brighten up a black silk drcsb charmingly, and the only needful for the bouiee is an officer collar and cuffs. Bands ot colouied velours cLsde are sometimes woven with stripes of black satin, and thick twilled silk is used, as well as line black cashmere, ior combination with a .skirt of colouied velvet or cloth. Some Fashionable Evening Gowns. — Within the last week or two there has been a sudden demand for plain and sprigged black net gowns, especially when trimmed with maize and marigold yellow. One piobty dre&s of black .spotted net has narrow yellow libbon sewn all over, each row being finished off, at the edge of the .skirt, with a long loop. Another in plain net has a pleated panol on one side, covered witli orange-tinted bows of watered ribbon ; while a third, likewise in plain tulle, is decorated with a festooned tablier of tulle workod with bright red silk rosebud*. Cactus-rod ribbons trim black lace and black tulle very nicely, and look less heavy than the deeper shades of crimson.