French Fashion Notes.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1839, 19 April 1884, Page 6 (Supplement)

French Fashion Notes.

Delicately lovely colors are seen in the bonnets for evening. One of these charming creations is made of pink plush and silver beads, silver laco and pink ostrich plumes, with an aigrette. Over the puffed black velvet facing is a fall of silver lace. Elack or dark facings accompany all light bonnets. Among some others of the imported bonnets, one of the Mme. Eaymonde capotes of rose color has the usual double buff on the front, intersected with rows of olive beaded lace, which also covers the crown; clusters of rose pompons and an aigrette are arranged on the left side ; the strings are rose satin. Golden brown, several shades of olive and cream color, and rose, are the colors mostly preferred by French milliners, with quantities of humming birds, feathers and colored tinsel laces.

A Beautiiul Evening Duess.—Bodices made of a material much thicker than the skirt will again be very fashionable for full dress occasions; the latter being made of silk tulle, veiling, lace, and brocaded India gauze —a new fabric, just imported, and of exceedingly fine texture, and lovely beyond compare in point of coloring. The bodices are made of velvet plush, satin brocade and broch6. A very beautiful evening costume, made for a bride, has an underdress of violet satin oovered with ruffles of Oriental lace ten inches deep. These waves of lace are caught up here and there by ornaments of amber and turquoise. Above this is a Louis Quinze bodice of gold and pale blue brocaded satin trimmed with lace of a narrower width. At the left side of the square, opening in the neck, is set a large cluster of marshmallow blossoms and pale blue-bella, mingled with cascades of the lace. A very superb dress, fashioned in a similar manner, has a skirt <

black satin, covered with flounces of wide Spanish lace, literally blazing with a dense covering of cut jet crystals. The bodice is of black Lyons velvet, fitting like a glove, being made up over a silk lining only. This is trimmed with magnificent jet pendants and crystal beaded lace frills about the open neck. This bodice is without sleeves, and in lieu of these are double rows of jetted lace and jet pendants, which fall over the arm. A breastknot of velvet loops, set halfway down the corsage, is brightened by a cluster of crimson roses and two drooping white lilies, the white and crimson forming a striking contrast to the rest of the toilet.