Fashion Items

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 286, 1 August 1888, Page 3

Fashion Items

Fkom English exchanges recently to hand we clip tlie following ; — Trimmings .for. Hats anp Boxxets — Trimmings ior hats and bonnets are composed of jibbonot ali kinds, among which may bo me tioned satin, • orded, striped, and wab u u ribbons mtei woven with gold and siUti threads, embroideied and beaded oiaids and glittering featheis — the latter aro used especially for kimming the wide brimmed h its a 1a Grenze, &c, while rows of fiat feathers often cover the braufa of tiny capotes worn forward on the head. Pocket HAxriciiiiCiiiKFS. — The smaller the pocket hanukerchief becomes, the greater the paib iL plays in a line lady's toilette. Foi walking and demi-toilettc the coloured s>ilk handkei chief id chosen, and for full dress the handkerchief mu&r be richly tiimmed with lace. The simplest are made of batiste very finely hemstitched, and edged with narrow Valenciennes, the handsomer one& ha\e Valenciennes inse - tion, about an inch broad, and lace edging to match. The value of the laUer is not increased by the more additional breadth, but also with the quality of the lace, pillow lace and Irit>h crochet are often used with bho most delicate textures, and wonderhilly hnely as these are made, they are still outdone by the xich etlect of duchesse and Brussels lace to which the palm of elegance must certainly be awarded. All the&e handkerchiefs have a bastiste foundation. We must not omit to notice the light silk handkerchiefs with plain middle and lace edge, which tastefully crumpled, are stuck between iho buttons ot the bodice, or pu-h '' iJi c- the reveis in pretty imitation (it a i, t ..„,, cd ilower.