Fashion's Follies.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2051, 29 August 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

Fashion's Follies.

LiortT green sealing-wax is now used by tho elegantet. Tho large envelopes which allow the paper to go without being folded are now considered elegant for nstes, invitations, and responses. Amber is a favorite again with fashionable brunettes. A wonderfully long amber necklet was recently worn at an assembly in Boston, where every bead was as Urge as a robin's egg. A Detroit swell drives in a white ooup6. Cameo soarf-pins for gentlemen are returning into fashion. Silk handkerchiefs in bright colon oontinue to have prominence given them, and, in addition to their use on chapeaux, aro mado to form pretty aprons, suoh as are spocially liked for afternoon teas. Electric lightining will have an immense influence in the future upon the use of colors, as it favors blues, which in some shades are made gresn, and in others black by gaslight.— Tho Archduchess Valeric of Austria issued her recent invitations to the Hungarian nobility ball in a visiting card oase made of crocodile skin, with the monogram of tho Archduohess in silver let into the front. — All flourishing crests, monograms, &t., aro obsolete with fastidious loaders of society, who only use plain whito note paper. But all notes must be sealed with wax and tbe single initial of the sender. — A New York woman has outshono all her diamonded sisters by buttoning tho bodice of her olive green satin ball-dress with perfectly matched solitaires of the first water. — The lady's maid of the period is expeoted to wear a black or dark blue cashmere dress of extreme nattiness and severity, a white lawn apron, tucked across the bottom and edged with embroidery, and a largo bow on top of her heard matohing the oolor of the dress.— Full beards will soon be out of fashion, unless they are of an old-gold shade, and costly gardenias are the most approved bontonmhres. — Orohids and yellow jasmine make the fashionablo band bunch of flowers in New York at present. They are expensive enough to make one the objeot of anvy, which is part of a bouquet's excuse for being. And they aro pretty also. — Satin shoes and slippers arc very much worn, and it is a pretty fabrio for the manufacture of foot covering, for its brilliant lustre has not only the effect of showing tha pretty shape of the foot, but of making it look smaller. Satin, the color of thi dress, is most used, although blaok is much in favor, and what can be prettier than a pretty foot daintily shod in black satin ?— The latest fashionablo affectation in to call one's million-dollar house a " hut,'' and invite one's friends to tho " attic," meaning a bijou of residence, with nothing suggestive of privation but the Attic salt, which flavors the entire abode.— Hussar jackets with red vests braided in gilt and silver galloons are to bo fashionable thii spring, and although rather audacious and startling are quite becoming to young girls. Dark green is the favorite color for these jackets, but dark blue and brown ore to be worn, according to the oolor of the costume accompanying it. The fit of these jackets should be very acourate, as this is their ahief beauty. Thk neoklace which Ristori wears as Elizabeth was really worn in tho court of the Virgin Queen.