FASHION NOTES.

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 147, 7 July 1883, Page 258

FASHION NOTES.

. By " Jenny .Wben.'! . „ ; 'Colbiired. sashes are much worn. ' '" Cockade bows are all the fashion. Jaqnefcfces polopaises are very popular. Toilettes in £he Henri 11. style are fashionable. The most fashionable handkerchiefs 1 have coloured borders.! ' The new fans are enormous, and. more bizarre ' than ever. Barcelona lace trims some of the newest mantles. " Eed is still the favourite colour for both sunshades and fans. Rosettes of narrow gold or silver braid are much worn in bonnets. Evening corsages without sleeves continue to be more worn than ever. ( ' Jetted grenadine is fashionable for evening and even day dresses. j The most stylish handle for the fashionable i sunshade is the Japanese sword. The latest insanity in jewellery is a "Hobby ! Horse." made in diamonds. Sequens of black jet have a most lovely effect as a. fringe on black tulle ball dresses. Very narrow ribbon, "' love ribbon/i s a favourite trimming for evening dresses. • G-rey velvet mantles, with steel and gold beaded twist, and silks in Japanese style, are novel, A new idea in floral bonnets is to have a large central rose, apparently attached to its crown, of small bloom, by links of velvet ribbon. Shoulder sapns, either black or in the dress material, arp generally finished off with tabs, from xmder which project frillings of lace. | The capote is. now so pretty aud coquettish, that even young girls very frequently adopt at in preference to the fashionable round hat. Valenciennes lace is the fashionable lace; and for once fashion is right, for it is pretty and the best and strongest of all the laces. It is not ; only used for underlinen, but trims evening dresses, and even bonnets* ; r . ? V - A novel and pretty apron worn by a young lady at a. recent bazaar was. mad.c of cream duster clotb,'with tl\e narrow red lines in the squares : worked in little .patterns of red; and blur or-- -• stitch. Another ]ov;»1y .--prou was o£ sofi; •:■•-«="<- silk, tvhnnied with l&oe aiul blue ribbon. Plain blii-:-k satin sunsu-vles :ire ->Liil ii c fii-'ouv with .you 8 .);: and oH. The ieev«< . . rjup'vj.-se, that they look stylish wi!h everji'.- ■,;> and -,ye arts not till quite >■"> lavioialy tindow.J. as io warrant our indulging in a. parasol *;;:• <m>& for every dress-. Pompon-spotted sunshades, too ; are very popular. -, ~»- "-,'■: >Y'\ i " zi Orange aud gamboge' yellow take th| :lead among the' paler; tint/- Of 'millinery. Bonnets of , black lace or guipure are radiant -with orange velvet bows,- and yellow crape, torsades .wind as prettily round the tiny, b'anhet'.of open-work straw or gold and . w bite braid latticework .as•th ey do i over large; hats of the popular Tariegated' straw,. , As for. bonnet-shapes, it' would be impossible' to mention them all ; some-are most, strange. In front the border-^protrhdea in the shape of a gable ; the crown is high ; the curtain turned up so as to shpw the nape of the neck. I cannot say such shapes are becoming:;, but ;they. are/; fashionable, and by many that is considered quite sufficient. ■ A single string is often worn crossed under the chin, fastened close to either the right or left ear by means of a metal buckle or a small ' bow made of narrow ribbon.;;; Beading, though slow ?; is very.- fascinating work, and probably mauy /Jadies -wfll find it ■interesting to freshen up sashes? after the latest freak o f fashion. This is a.., diversified stripe | reproduced by lines of different coloured beads, which, being crossed by horizontal -ones towards the end, intersect in a kiud of plaided square. A very simple instance is the following : lines of amber-glass beads s.ewn on in groups of threes, ! are divided by four rows of bronze-' beads rather -darker than the satin ground. When tha^rows j intersect the. series of brown ones give p'fljrce to | straight crosses .with a yellow bead in the centre. Other ribbons similarly treated with gold, blue, pink, and irndescent glass beads. A handsome dinner dress is of black brocbe gauze- and red satin. The latter fabric is used for the skirt with a deep box pleating, on each pipe of which is festooned a liounce of Chuntilly lace. The gauze tunic, draped high on the right side, is followed by chenille corkscrews tipped with jet balls, while the festoon of lace is headed up in a cascade on which are tied two drooping bunches of red tulips. Fob the least notable point of the toilette is the bodice, which is cut cut in two deep vainUkes f'rjm neck to bust, disclosing a high under- bod ice of the satin, charmingly finished by a ruche of black laco honey-combed will) gurnet beads. I have already mentioned the miteriils most in vogue. The greatest' favourites are still plaids, cheeks, and brocaded pal-turns, imitating us close-,!} as possible designs worked by hand. All thes '. figured I'lbrir.-s are, generally combined with self-coloured plain tissues. This allows of a great many pretty ari-angeineuts, as, fur inst-mce, the following: — short-, simulated skirl, with flounce five iiiches deep — this of plain woollen material ; full upper skirt draped and ia&teno'.l down at the upper eu^e of the liounce. Uoekailo bows of narrow «ii in ribbon fasten each pleat ol this drapery, (lie second skivt is of fancy, woollei: fabric, broiMileu vvii-'i donated patterns in silk. Whort i-urk-paiiiers o! t lie same material over the hips. Peaked bodice of the plain fabric, with chemi>e'ta of thW (m)c--Kled (issue, rfleeve's full at the top and plain at the wrist, finished with a mailing of tbv brocaded tissue.

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