FASHION SPRAYS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2251, 20 June 1881, Page 4

FASHION SPRAYS.

Bronze hues are in vogue. Boman sashes are revived. Bottle green is very fashionable. Shirred chemisettes are in fashion oga'i. Gilt soutaches in three or four rows trims dark cloth dresses. To knit one’s own silk stockings is the ambition of the fancy worker at present. The belt, with bag to match suspended therefrom, has superseded every other pocket. Bright and positive will not bo ; n fashion except in small bits, to give a dash of brightness to a costume. Skirts are very narrow, but the draperies are very full and bouffant. The Marquis habit is a masculine-looking coat worn over a plush waistcoat. Out-steel in arrows and fern leaves is among the prettiest of the steel decorations. Some of the new polonaises are made with full panier-liko draperies over the hips. New bangle bracelets are single, and the fastening is an imitation of a large hook-and-eye. Geranium leaves made of feathers are among the imitations of nature, imported by milliners. A small silver bottle of mountain dew or Bass’ ale is worn for a watch chain by English gentlemen. Black Spanish lace with largo golden poppies embroidered in the design is one of the new garnitures. Shirred waists of white or colored Surah silk are worn under bright colored velvet or brocaded peasant waists. Large bouquets of shaded roses are worn on one side of the corsage, and a few roses in the hair for full evening dress. A filagree rose, with the centre of crystals, on delicate filagree stamens, is a beautiful and new decoration for the hair.

A Now York firm gave all the visitors at its opening a bird-shaped bunch of leaves upon which millinery patterns were engraved-Light-colored evening dresses, worn by the givers of five o’clock teas, are among the “ out of place” things to be seen in New Ycrk society. Lockets with raised flowers and scrolls are coming into favor in England. The decoration is often so massive as to look like Indian carving.

Dress, to he really beautiful, must fit the whole character and circumstances as well as the figure, and its entire attractiveness depends upon the ease and unconsciousness with which it is worn.

A Tuscan straw bonnet, made in the Henry 111. shape, and trimmed with a white feather beginning near the front, carried along the left aide and drooping at the hack, is becoming to an oval face. English women are beginning to protest against the elaborate dress of little boys, and to wonder whether it is the best and wisest course to use a child as a dummy on which to display the mother’s taste. A novel flower of a very artificial but not ephemeral nature, is made of Algerian silk ; it is no more a flower than a marabout is like dandelion seed, but ladies are in ecstacios over ’Algerian silk roses in the coral lints. Any-

•,hing up.real and that looks “ oldish” is in greot demand. Paris has taken up the fancy for Greek costume, and makes it in pink satin, fastened by Greek clasps and embroidered with Greek frets. The tunic is made with a square opening at the front and back, and is draped by a scarf ornamented with gold embroidery, and underneath it is worn a mass of pink gauze and gold trimming, arranged as a petticoat.

A Paris letter says that in that fashion centre dressmakers seem to have run mod at present. They steal from all the great masters, Raphael, Veronese, Rubens, and Van Dyck, and they borrow from all lands. Charles IX. drosses, Chinese shoes, Regency headdresses, direotoire hats and Oriental stuffs are mixed together by them in a salad, a carnival of colors and stuffs that one cannot understand.