FASHION NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 596, 16 March 1876, Page 3

FASHION NOTES.

Parib is going half mad about a new bonnet that has just uncle its appearance in the world of fashion. Some ptoplo call it " Bebo," tone call it' Quaker, and 'oome call it coal scuttle. It is neither Quakeij nor coal-icuttle, though it hai a little of both. It h>n a 10ft tull crown, shaped like a Highlander's cap. that is sloping ' from the top down to the back of the neck, where it is drawn intend finished with a curtain. The front brim is plain, and in ihape a minature coal-scnttle. The brim, however, does not yet hide the cheeks^whaterer it may hereafter do), nor the evei. ' The innde of the brim is lined with a lighter 1 made to the exterior colour of the bonnet. Acrl. betides this lining, it is secondly lined round the edge with a row of plaited tulle crape tisse. Feathers trim the outside, and over the crown is passed a' wide ribbon, which is brought forward and iied on one Bide. This ribbon, I must explain, is quite separate to the bonnet, and |t is put on after the bonnet it placed on tha head, just as a sish is tied round the waist. , The idea i» new, and, therefore, very successful,. In materials, the bonnet is generally composed of velvet 'for the outude, silk or satin, I of A lighter ihade,%r the inside, tulle plaiting r for cap within the brim, and silk ribbon for across the crown and strings. Suoh is the bonnet that js pending all tbe female portion of Paris mad. It is not general, ho * ever, yet ; nor ' is it seen on ihe'Boulevards. A few of the first milliners alone are beginning? to make it. There I 'is also another bo'oaet, but this one is exclusively \ for winter. It is * hx*de of fur and velvet — I might say, entirely of fur, so little velvet is there ' ( ss«n of it. Fur rotind the tip, fur' lining to the brim, fur, trimming on the outeideof the bonnet, And fur striags, The shape' of thu bends over (he forehead, like the generality of this year's bonnets. They look extremely comfortable and ' «oty, and are just adaptable for this season, which, beginning to early, promises to be both severe and long. Is is impossible "to describle the newest dres«es, as the drapery of the back is so complicated ' and mysterious that when you examine it closely it ia difficult even to guess how it U managed. The trains are exceedingly narrow, and if not ' composed! of two materials they are crossed and recrosted wi'h scarfs in such an irregular, in- ' formal fashion, quite impossible to describe ; , vory frequently they are ornamented with a targe bow, that hu the effort of fastening the train to the ikirt. a For evening weir the Juive robe is certainly the most elegant when made "of cither cream damask or China crepe, and trimmed with silver braid And silver fringe ; the under bodice is now ■imulated, as it was found that the bodice and the Juive corslet 1 over it rendered the figure ' thicker, and as all dress has now a tendency to give the wearer a slim appearance the double bodios W*» discarded. The^ulrasi bodices are made longer than they were three months ago, and waists are' elongated in such a minner that all arrangement* of petticoats Are entirely, altered, The art of the dress maker lies in making the basque fit smoothly, bat not too tightly ; the figure is not compressed, but the outlines are clearly defined. Very often j , the cuirass extends at least iiro-oiglitbs of a yard below tho waist all round, and it should lie without any fulness over the hips fend tournure. Rich wide braids are much used in trimming. Those into which some threads of metal -silver, gold, or steel — are woven are more in favour than when'first Introduced, as there is so little of the tnetal used that the effect is not tawdry or theatrical. Two rowa of braid, each th.re"c n ches wide, pass down the front of tho bodiceSome very original and pretty opera cloaks or tortU* dt bal hove been introduced recently • they are made of the silks worn by Chinese Mandarins, And Are short st the back, and long in front with square cadi. The sleeves are •normoas, sometimes tluy reach to the edge of the skirt, and Are buttoned At the side with Chinese silver grslots At the edge of the cloak there sre grelots of silk of many colours falling above very long tjasieli of floss silk.

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