PARIS FASHIONS.

Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 809, 8 December 1865, Page 2

PARIS FASHIONS.

The Paris correspondent of the Argus writes as follows :

In point of fashion, our Parisian ladies give the ton. I shall note, for the amusement of your fair readers, some specimens of toilettes the most remarkable. Let them be re-assured, I understand too well the gravity of the task I here take upon me to think of obtruding on them my own personal observations. Fingers better qualified than mine will direct the pen. We must first learn to distinguish the morning dress worn at the Casino, at the promenade, from evening dress, for dinner, the theatre, and the ball-room. For morning dress, a muslin dress, ■with double jupe, one ornamented with five flounces bordered with black velvet, and the other richly worked with aiguillettes of black velvet. A. jacket over rose coloured taffetas, with a black velvet belt and jet buckle. Jet hair ornaments.

Evening Dress.—Dress of cotton silk with shawl paterns, and double jupe, one ornamented with white guipure over light blue and the other open ornamented with blue taffetas, surrounded with guipure. Closefitting jacket, facings. Cotton-silk is very much the fashion this year at watering places, and in the country. The colours vary —blue, white, pearl-grey, rosegrey,’ turquoise-blue, salmon-colour, lilac, &c. {Since Mr Dupin’s famous brochure, simplicity has come into fashion. The fair sex, after having indulged in all sorts of extravagant fashions, from the comb in the form of a poinard, to the horseshoe buckle, and the bird of paradise on their bonnets, have now taken to pooh-poohing loud toilettes, and husbands rub their hands with satisfaction. They forget that, at Paris, what costs dear is not so much what is showy, but what is fashionable. When plain dresses become the fashion, they will cost just as much as the complicated fancies of the mode going out. This last reflection is not mine. You may recognise it for that of a moralist who lives, more than 1 do, in the great current of the century, and who, seeing it more closely, is better qualified to judge of it.