LADIES' COLUMN. FASHIONABLE GLOVES.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 548, 28 June 1879, Page 1 (Supplement)

LADIES' COLUMN. FASHIONABLE GLOVES.

The fashionable glove for the street this season is undressed kid-fine, Boft, flexible, and the color of roasted coffee. This is the shade par excellence, but the delicate mastic shades are also in favor, and for ladies in mourning it is a mark of the highest distinction to wear white undressed kid — the dull whiteness being considered more elegant, even in deep mourning, than the gloss of black finished kid. All the finest shades in fabrics are reproduced in French kid, and the velvety softness, the cut, the finish, the flexibility, which adapts itself to the hand as if another skin had grown upon it, are perfect. But they are absolutely plain — even a little leaf of embroidery in two shades of the self-color, which iB sometimes introduced upon the back, being considered out of place by those who affect fastidious care in the minor details of the toilet. Mitts still hold their place, and are worn at the opera, and particularly for af tern ion and evening receptions at home. The most elegant are very long and fine black and white Chantilly lace. More popular styles are the " Btocking mitts," made of white spun Bilk with fringed tops, and in the fine open-worn patterns in which thread Btock* ings often appear. Lambskin gloves have been introduced, and are said to fit well and to wear well. They are cheaper than French kid, and therefore find purchasers. Dogskin (gloves have for a long time been favorites with English ladies, especially those who live in the country and ride and walk a good deal. They are not so fine and soft; and perfect in their fit as French kid, but they are warmer, more useful, and more desirable. Very warm winter riding and walking gloves are of English calfskin, plush lined and fur tipped, — From the Queen,