FASHION NOTES.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 159, 29 September 1883, Page 18

FASHION NOTES.

Elegant dresses for the beacb. are made p£ shot silk, brocaded with fanciful patterns !iri velvet' ,'or chenille. i ; : . ,,., j,- .., . .»•;./. v.v Parasols are.rof checked i; zephyK, edged with, narrow Aftcej and/lined with plain jzephyr, and a ; , folding handle. ; • . The ftfllSarah-Bernhaidfr plastron is very gdne lrally adopted, although not becoming to any but; tall, slight figures. ! . '■'■''■ ■' ■■■ ' '■' "■' ■' I ' u '■ '•"■'" ' „ A walking dress is ' J of "sage greeV b&ize ; the, collar and puffs .being of, silk broche'; bow's, and wais'tbaiid'bf ribbon Velvet.. ' ' ' ,' ' „, , ' ,■ . Evening .^resfes, ( o£ pern, lace, over silk or purah. of the We, shade, or else pale; pink. They are very fashionable for. soirees.. A suit for a' boy from four' to six looks -very pretty made of blue and grey striped linen^ with ' collar, cliffs; and sash of plain blue'linen. A dress for a little girl is of white brilliant-. 3 The flounces, collar, and cuffs are edged ,'withV lace, and a narrow border of croix stitch embroidery, 1 worked 'with red washing silk. v ;•• A bib for a baby is of white : sateen, scalloped and buttonholed at the edge, and embroidered ' with cornflowers and leaves with . cotton a la :f croix; the dots are worked iii satin stitch. A pretjty walking dress is of, beige ,in ; shades of. 1 bronze ; mantle of black sicilienne, trimmed with silk embroidery, passementerie, and . bows of ribbon ; bronze-coloured straw hat, trimmed with ribbon velvet. A nice style of dress is of checked silk and sho silk. Plain bodice o£ shot silk, opening in fro n over a narrow vest or plastron of the checked silk. This vest is framed round with handsome silk passementerie to match. ' ; A walking dress for a little girl from six to eight years is of dove-coloured cashmere, the band, pocket, collar, and cuffs being bound with silk braid, and are machine-stitched. Legorn hat, trimmed with cream-coloured ostrich feathers and blue 'surah. At a party in Ponsonby last week a Mrs M. •wore a navy blue silk, trimmed with a lighter shade of brocaded silk and white Honiton lace. The bodice was of brocaded silk, opening in front over a narrow vest or plastron of silk, the drapery being caught up with silver leaves and pale pink roses, which looked remarkably pretty. Seaside hats are made after the Mademoiselle lifitouche fashion. They are simply conical hats put on like bonnets, that is, the brim is turned up at the back into a curtain, and, the sides are tied down so as to enclose the face, and arrarged into a bow at the side ; a cluster of drooping loops of the same ribbon, which should not be wide, is placed a little on one side upon the cro.wn. "Velvet is very much used this summer in feminine attire, especially in the way of trimmings. It is associated with the lightest and airest 'fabrics. Plain bands of velvet are sewn on in rows, to the number of five plain rows or more, round, the skirts and tunics : o£ 2 fancy- woollen fabrics, and even upon cambrics and* muslins. This is an improvement, as far as simplicity goes, upon the profusion of flounces and furbelows •which we have been accustomed to see for many past seasons. A skiiit qi old gold and purple shot glacp silk; brocaded with a pattern of small, dark purple velvet swallows, is .trhnmed with three narrow pinked-out flounces of shot silk to match, not brocaded. This skirt . is arranged into, a, double sagging puff behind', and draped up at tii'e' side m front, . the pinked-out flounces being clustered like enpr/nous. pecpii.es. The bodice of /brocaded' silk is ' quite plainf a& the back, w'jth three seams and a small pointed basque. The sleeves are short to the elbow. This; pattern; is suitable, for brocaded or printed fabrics of any style. Even sateen is now made, up with -velvet to match. For the summer we may hope to see costumes not quite ; so- over-loaded- with trimmings. We' must not;* however, suppose we 'shall see plain skirts ttccoinpanied' by puffs and draperies.' The tournui'6' is imoro -puffed out 'than ever, and if some skirts are untrimmed, none are left unadorned with some sort of draper f. < The polonaise, the tunic, and the basque are. equally favoured by fashion ; thejbpdjce^niay be\pejked or round-waisted, but there is always some Sxtra fulness aboufc the upper part of, the skirt. The bodice is just as often made, full a§ plain. This should depend upon the' style of r the wearer's figure, }*0 A/!! .;'•■ |J "•• ;■. ; *- 1 V '.' : A very elegant dress for afternoon receptions or everssg part%|J|s of pompadour glace silk, with a psttercu^fe^^ral^i^^er a cream-coloured ground,^and^^^^pp|i|^rali. v " "PMn^peaked bodice of, suraQ^^^^f^^oint^i^ej^Jlpiastron. finely-gauged cream^l^flfej side with a jtjprder of " 11 ' Deep p&tiiers and t^|r^^e.iOjE^^^.|(p.c^jpttdour silk, looped up herejlnm ? fcu^&&#i^|sQpnifold cockades^ of pale bl|e ril|bon. A |$m&|pf the pompadour stl^^|^dj»j^||ithf ;^p.^% pggt of the, slurt between ",'iW "gamers , and 1 "Sll' the. lower * p^r,fc-.ig covered with; "'narrow,, pinked-out flounces,'"-alternately of pompadour sjlkA and 'pale blue sifr'ah'. '*' The sleeves are finished at the elbow with a lace frilling. ' '•";•■• ,' A pretty: dress. for a young lady, is of' pale buffi armurette. The skirt is quite plain at the sides, with, plgats, at the a few narrow ones in ; the middle of the fro%t j star-like bows, composed. of loops of narrow velvet a'ibbqn, are placed on each side of these, middle, pleats, tl^e edge of the skirt resting upon a narrow.fluting.' A polonaise of the" samta material is draped very short in f ront, %,n'd'-flilly "pleated behind; where it is much longer. It is trimmed w^th^y e rows of garnet-red . velvet -ribbon about an inch wide, put on plain. The bodice isi pleated in, front from neck; to waist, and fitted round'the waistt svith a wide band o| velvet to match the trimmings, fastened in front with an^pyal buckle of gilt, metal. The sleeves are gathered' on the shoulders , and plain at the wrists. A small stand-up collar is trimmed round „with the narrow velvet,' ahft a star bow of the ' is placed on .one ...side th,o f|eck ; and wrists with ruches' of creamy lace.