For the Ladies.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1239, 25 November 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

For the Ladies.

LATE FASHION NOTES.

The fashion of bouffant sleevos for full ir'ess is gaining, Bronze kid is in favor again for house shoes and for slippers. Daffodils, dandelions, yellow tulips and buttercups are the fashionable flowers for the bair, White lillies are the choice for house decoration."

Large collarettes and shoulder capes of lace and embroidery are much worn, A new fancy is to decorate them profusely all around with hoops of satin ribbon. France, which used to lead the world in the matter of fashion, now follows any " craze" imported from London, and in Paris it is " chic to be English in tone and style. Shepherds' check in black ■ and white twilled wool is a favorite material for tailormade travelling dresses, It is braided with black Hercules braid and made in severely simple fashion, New fans are made of a single large flower —a red poppy, with a black heart j blue morning glories, striped with colors, a panaey, a dahlia or a large sunflower-tho stalk of the flower serving for a handle. Satin is the favorite material for the very fashionable, Beatrice sandals, many of which have floral designs painted on the front, and occasionally along the sides as well. A pretty foot looks far better with a flat decoration than to be heaped up with bows, rosettes and huge buckles, ' When there is little or no instep, land the foot lias no arch, the addition of these loops and clasps is, of course, an improvement. ■ The favorite bodice this season is the Jersey basque, which is identical with the old cuirass, except that it has the side forms running into the armhole instead of the shoulder seam, It fits like a glove, smooth over the hips, and is generally untrimmcd on the edge, although there is a growing tendency to finish it with fringe, or lace or plaiting, and still more to cut it in slashes on the edge, and perhaps embroider it, TWO COSTUMES. Two novel watering place toilets are as follows : The first is a dress of dark olive brocaded India gauze over an underskirt of very light blue silk, trimmed with two deep flounces of dark olive colored Spanish lace, The second dress is of deep gold colored satin, with over-dress and corsage of coffee colored lace, and garniture of scarlet geraniums and white marguerites with deep brown hearts. The sleeves in this last mentioned dress are dispensed with, Upon the shoulders are placed epaulettes formed of the floral garniture of geraniums and daisies, -<V. 7. Post, CONTRAST IN MATERIALS, ' Bodices of a thicker material than the skirt are very much in vogue, the latter being of tulle, silk, veiling or laco, the former made of brocade, satin merveilleux, broche, and this season of velvet also. A very beautiful costume made for a Newport bride has an underdress of white silk covered with ruffles of Oriental lace and plaited frills of silk, Ovor this is a Louis Quinze basque of amber and turquoise-blue brocaded satin, trimmed with the laeo, At the left side of the square opening in the neck is set a bouquet df marshmallow blossoms and pale blue-bells, mingled with waves of lace, A second dress has a first skirt of dark myrtlegreen tulle, worn under a bodice and paniers of green and gold brocaded "May" velvet, garnitured with Renaissance lace ruffles, Over this skit is an odd scart sash which mingles with the folds of the paniers and the drapery of the tournure, and is caught up hero and there with Marshal Neil roses, A dress in this same style has a blaok Spanish lace and black beaded tulle skirt, with bodice of black Lyons velvet, trimmed with magnificent jet ornaments and jet-beaded lace ruffles. This bodice is without sleeves, and in lieu of these aro double fringes of jet pendants, which fall over the arm, A breast-knot of velvet loops, set halfway down the bodice, is brightened by a cluster of orimson roses and two drooping cream-white syringa blossoms, the white and crimson forming a striking contrast to the black velvet surrounding them, HINTS TOR STOUT LADIES, Ladies with stout figures will find it becoming to wear low drapery, quite below the hips, instead of the full paniers and other high-draped scarfs that are now placed only a few inches below the waist lino, One of the most fashionable designs for overskirts can be utilized in this way; as it has all its fullness, or rather its breadth, laid in lengthwise tuoks that begin at the belt, fitting the hips smoothly, and below this the length is taken up in crosswise folds that come in just where large figures suddenly becemo smaller, and the effect is then very good, avoiding all conspicuous extremes, and harmonizing , the outline, 1 This overskirt is pretty with basques that are much shorter on the hips than ; in the front and back. The same graceful effect is easily given to polonaises, especially to the Marguerite polonaise that has its additional fullness cut on below the hips, and with that model of panier polonaise that has the drapery sewed to a plain cuirass waist without the usual shirring that accompanies . such garments, The princesse dress with Greek drapery open up one side to the hips to display not horizontal flounces, but

lengthwise plaitings, or long embroidered panels; or brooaded breadths, is becoming to Vfiry/'stout ladies, Redingotes that are slashed or have lengthwise plaits behind can be well worn by thoae with plump, wellrounded figures, but not by those who consider themselves "very : stout;' 'bebause they dispense entirely with the low drapery that proves the most effective for large figures. The simple tailor-made dresses. suit. these large ladies, and are not at all appropriate for thin figures' by reason'of; their' very, severe designs.— Harpeti Bamr}> ]':.:•!■',