LONDON FASHIONS.

Evening Star, Issue 3076, 28 December 1872, Page 3

LONDON FASHIONS.

“ Ardern Holt,” describing the contents of the London shops, observes “There is a marked improvement this year in the manufacture of serges and serge-like materials; gop very pretty costumes consisted of a ppjpnaise pf piain blue serge, having goldcolpred satin stppes interwoven. A wide cross-cut tlounec with a hpadjng went round the skirt, go showing the stripes diagonally, and had a capital effect. Satin cloths, embroidered, are among the winter novelties ; but plain satin cloth, and woollen reps are much trimmed with satin bindings and crossr cut bands of velvet. Tunics in front appear to be going out in costumes; the front breadth is either left quite plain or is trimmed with broad bands of velvet. Any way, the front breadths and the back are arranged in a totally different manner. The most generally adopted modes for the back seem to be kilt-plaited flounces one above the other, or a narrow plaiting quite at the edge, lurnoustcd by » elightly-satbercd flounce,

cut out round the edge in hattleraeuted squares, or else decorated. Sometimes this battlemcnted edging is cut diogonal’y. This mod*' is evidently to be a marked feature in this > ear’s fashions. The tunics are made j very long, meeeting at the waist just in front, and then sweeping off like a train on either I side, and mostly out out in this battlement device all round, and bound with bias bands of satin, or edged with wide bands of velvet, d hey are most of them as boutfante as ever at the back, being caught up with a loop of velvet attached to the waist on both sides, and finished off with a bow. The bodies are all made with basques back and front, the front basques being cut up on the hips, and rounded—-the back being more often a series of box-plait rovers of velvet braid, or piped with satin, and laid on round the neck at the hack, and coining down to the waist on either side of the front, or sometimes rounded off to the side scam, like a Bcnorita jacket —give the appearance of a jacket and waistcoat, which is quite the most fashionable style now. r lhe most distingue colors for satin cloth and similar materials at present. arc dark claret, trimmed With a lighter shade of sa in ; cinnamon trimmed with brown, and two shades of tea green. They are selling in the way of trimmings, wniste I fiinge, plaitiugs of corded ribbon edged with nanow silk fringe, and bauds of fur, Highbodiecd white muslins arc bring mostly worn in country house' just now. The skirts are unusually long, having one deep, straightout flounce and three smalt ones above, with Valenciennes lace at each edge ; the tunics are bordered with similar friflings, likewise the pagoda sleeves and the bodices, and cut cii ra’ttr at the neck. But what makes them so exceedingly pretty and uncommon are sashes, made of very wide rich ribbon, one end light blue, the other rosr-ife-thc: the band is blue, ami from either side comes an end, one blue, the other nm-dc IM , inclosing the tunic at the hack in one groat />onf ; the ends, which are of knotted fringe woven into the ribbon, fall on the left side with a loop and piece across; bows of ribbon of the two , colors intermixed ai’e also on the sleeves.”