FASHION NOTES

Observer, Volume 5, Issue 117, 9 December 1882, Page 201

FASHION NOTES

By "Jenny Week."

Printed lace is new. Poke hats are very popular. Chenille fringe is much worn. Uichelieu collars are fashionable. Embroidery of every kind is the rage. Nun's cloth makes pretty lawn-tennis dresses. Cruipure tulle looks very pretty on the new I straw bonnets. Chenille and lace mantlets will be very popular this summer. Tigers' claws are the last new device for millinery clasps, brooches, or earrings. Pistarche is a very favourite colour, various greens now sharing the popularity of ficelle. ' Parasols covered with ficelle embroidery are very stylish, and go well with light toilettes. Tussore silks look extremely well, trimmed with the different embroideries in vogue this season. White spotted muslin, trimmed -with rather pale ecru lace, makes a pretty summer dress. Young girls wear very large straw hats with turned-up brim, trimmed with clusters of flowers or shaded feathers, and scarf of light soft twilled silk.

Dresses of plain, dart blue, green, or prune satinette are trimmed with bands of embroidery in pale buff colour. Gloves are generally worn without buttons for morning toilettes, and are slipped on over the very tight, not very long, sleeve. ■ The Yankee bonnet is much worn by married ladies, with chirrings of light surah and very thick wreath of flowers round the crown. It is very becoming to ladies who wear their hair in a curly fringe in front. Embroidery in every style and variety seems likely to be the most popular kind of trimming for dresses this summer. That most generally worn, because less expensive, is the machinemade embroidery in white, cream, or buff, over earnbrie, net, or any other light material, or else in silk over woollen or silk fabrics. Spring M j^>| Etjft St rwiWr^B^i^ifeffSlßiJbififif lffiMi ■i»?Aw^i c

A curious combination of materials, which lias been very largely adopted, is that of a lawn or batiste tunic and corsage over a surah Bkirfc. This appears to be against all recognised rules j nevertheless, the innovation is successful in all respects, for dresses made, in this way are extremely pretty and far more serviceable than when made with a lawn or batiste skirt. The foundation skirt only is of surah, trimmed entirely with pleatings of lawn and surah, the upper part of the skirt being veiled with lawn in wide pleats. The polonaise is edged with ficelle lace or embroidered lawn, and draped in a graceful fashion. Satinette and other washing dresses in vogue just now are much less trimmed with flutings than formerly. These are exchanged for deep borders of lace or embroidery, put on plain or slightly gathered. It would be a pity to pleat such borders, so as to lose the effect of the pattern. A pretty costume of satinette of pale blue convolvuli over a cream-coloured ground, was made with a short scant skirt, covered over I the front and sides with slightly-gathered flounces edged with renaissance lace ; paniers, trimmed with similar lace, were slanted off over the hips, and finished at the back with a slightly-pufted drapery, also edged with lace,, falling over _ a pleated gore of the material in the middle of the back. The plaixT bodice is trimmed with lace round the neck and down the froat. The sleeves are semi-short, and also trimmed with lace. The

sunshade is made to match the dress, "which has a gifod effect with toilettes of this style. The fantastic sateens, which hare come so quickly into fashion, were largely worn at the Sydney Regatta. One of these, consisting of a white ground polonaise with large bouquets of red flowers far apart, and an underskirt of foolscap blue, kilted, and trimmed across the front with three rows of white lace, looked very stylish ; while a Co3tume of ficelle linen, embroidered with grenat silk, the skirt puffed and edged with a deep flounce. Tunic scalloped at the edge and draped high on the hips. Casaquin of grenat - silk trimmed with lace. . Hat of grenat straw edged with velvet and trimmed with pink feathers, was much admired. Two sateens, one bluefigured with trimmings of watered ribbon ; the other in pink with Turkey red streamers ; both dresses much gathered, and trimmed with white lace, looked pretty with large poke hats trimmed to match. A pink oatmeal cloth with chenille fringe and gloves to match, also looked very nice.