FASHIONS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2376, 1 October 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

FASHIONS.

The warm weather has banished all the heavy toilettes for the season, and nothing is now seen but costumes in fouland, in Alsatian percale, or, for more elegant dresses, black or cream laces. Black tulle, embroidered iu a light pattern with silk of the same colour, is employed for some of the latter costumes, or else plain black tulle, made with from three to five flounces, each edged with a puff, through which is drawn a black satin ribbon. These tulle dresses are light and cool for summer wear, but arc also very fashionable. More durable and but little more expensive are the toilettes in black lace, either imitation Chantilly or guipure, intermined with Chantilly medallions. These come in yard-wide flounces to cover the skirt entirely, while the corsage may be composed of lace, or of faille or satin matching the underskirt, and trimmed with narrow lace corresponding with that of the flounce. This style of lace dress is much more popular than is that which was wore last summer composed of lacenet by the yard, which wore ill and soon became flimsy and rusty. Grey dresses are very popular for the seashore or country wear, and are now enlivened by the introduction of more brilliant and and contrasting colours in the trimming, such as lilac for married ladies, and pale pink for young girls. A toilette in silver-grey prints d’espirt, trimmed with pale pink watered ribbons, and having a crape or surah vest of the same colour, is a charming dress for a young lady. Silk muslin and silk gauze arc largely in favour for summer dresses. The latest styles for costumes in fouland are very pretty, plain fouland being combined with the same material in the same colour, striped with narrow lines of white. The underskirt is covered with three gathered flounces of the plain material, each bordered with a hand of the striped fouland. Over the front of the skirt fall two fan shaped finely plaited flounces of tlie striped material, which also forms the draperies at the back. The corsage is also striped, ami lias a vest iu the line plaits bordered by a large collar in white guipure. Tlie sleeves are laid in plaits from the shoulder to the elbow, and arc met by deep cull's of tlie guipure. This toilet is very stylish, iu heliotrope or iu marine blue. The Salon shuts its doors this afternoon. With its close we roach the cud of the Tans season, and new fashions for autumn and winter now will only bo introduced iu a couple of months.—Paris, July 31st,