Ladies’ Column.

Lake County Press, Issue 2186, 12 September 1907, Page 2

Ladies’ Column.

Latest London & Paris Fashions.

BY MISS ADA MELLEB.

[Atii Rights Eeseevbd.] A Braid-Trimmed Costume. a N Paris, it is the day of the redin gote | made chiefly of cloth, but also of velvet. The redingote is best carried off by a tall figure ; the short womau is better suited by a bolero coat. An elegant redingote costume turned out by a French firm is of elephantgrey cloth, the coat fronts, when worn open, displaying a high belt of soft black satin. A touch of black with grey is generally a wise choice, such as, for instance, a collar of black velvet on a grey redingote, or a black hat worn with a light grey costume. The French dressmaker is very fond of sobering down a brightly coloured dress with a note of black. Concerning tailor-mades, silkbraid is relied on almost more than anything else.for their decoration this season, and is used in a very wide width. The coat and skirt sketched, is of dark blue

three-tier effect. costume is an excellent model. The skirt might really consist of three dee)) floi.n'i., each one bordered with braid. Plain *■ are still fashionable, but practically the lv ones adopted for dress purposes are tn-' s- m dark green and blue. What becomes ul i IC brighter tartans—the scarlet varieties—-oi.C sees in shop windows is a question to wbu i it would be interesting to know the answer. Occasionally a blouse of \ ictorian tartan makes an effective top to a dark red or black skirt, but. one secs very few bright plan a worn. The long waistcca. effect is introduced in rather a new way on a tight fitting, knee-deep coat of dark green cloth. At the neck in front, the coat is cut away to the depth of an inch or two above the waist, where the piece that crosses the front is outlined in scallops. A waistcoat of almondyellow cloth, braided in gold and green, m in the gap left by the cutting out of the front of the coat, this waistcoat fastening along the centre-front, while the coat is double-breasted. It is arranged in flat box pleats from the waist to the knees, the pleats vanishing into mere scams from the waist to the shoulders. These long, slim waistcoats tire particularly becoming to stout ligures, since they appeal to detract from size.

Dress Trifles. In apportioning a dress allowance, ™ore than would at first appear necessary must be allowed for etceteras of the toilette, seeing that in many cases they are the things that give to a costume the chic and c-ainliness by which it is distinguished. The dress itselt may be absolutely simple, but it is lifted to the realm of fashionable smartness by such auxiliaries as boas and stoles, muffs, lace, or muslin collars, belts and gloies, and all these things, to say nothing of footwear, mean a considerable outlay. Millinery, too, is expensive, and there are other trifles iu the way ■>£ silk underskirts, the indispensable handbag, fans and umbrellas, that, apart from the costume itself, easily run into many pounds. The all-important aceesson to a walking-costume is a fur or feather boa which gives the cachet of smartness to an otherwise plain and ordinary-looking suit. Green coque boas are very fashionable again, after a lapse of years, and are dressy-looking, inexpensive substitutes for the ostrich feather boa and newer than marabout feathers, of which we have had rather a surfeit. In the group of etceteras of the toilette sketched is a handsome stole ot ostrich feathers, suitable for day or evening

wear, with liltic killings of chiffon introduced at tho ends. Another article sketched is a lace bolero with a turned-down collar of embroider’d muslin. Boleros of tin’s sort, made of bebe Irish lace, or of crochcc lace and Valenciennes mixed, or, again, of a medley of coarse lace inlet with medallions of embroidered muslin, are very useful in renovating a demode bodice or ringing the changes on a simp’e silk or crepe do chine blouse. Very useful, too, is the plastron collar sketched. It is of guipun frilled with fine lace, and forms a complete covei - ing for the front of a blouse, and would thus easily transform an evening bodice into one suitable for afternoon wear. Ornamental slides for bows and lace collar-bands are prominently to the front in the piesent modistic schemes. The velvet bow sketched is decorated with a fancy slide of French paste set with turquoises. Bows after this fashion effectively complete plain bands of ribbon velvet, worn round the throat in change with high dog-collars of pearls. The other bow illustrated is of tulle, clasped with a gold and er.amel ornament. Parisiennes are very fond of these tulle bows, worn under the chin. A Coiffure With Back-Comb. Since the marriage of the young Queen of Spain, fashion has paid her the compliment of bringing into vogue various articles of the toilette worn by Spanish grandes dames, such as the lace mantilla and the high backcomb. The latter is more popular than the mantilla with Englishwomen, and the present fashion of dressing the hair lends itself most admirably to the adoption of the backcomb, which reaches, it must be c nfessed, to rather exaggerated proportions at times. When supporting the coiffure and keeping it neat. Elaborate and beautiful carving is

introduced into the f combs, the teeth to which arc .kF from the ornamented » I onc of t ,i l6 teeth mend these comb., rep Jf . a jeweller that may have broken oM. of for tells me, too dclic . The injured English hands to d j by ;IU Italian comb must need.- . ds B n such repairing, worker, who underst. _ A in tlie nrt 0 t the Italians being be tbe English handling tortoiseshell backshows the tashmnab e fo Ur with generally adopted. M £ t^i,e shell is the Spanish comb ? f , a i e am ber colourthe smaller back-comb o P inlaid with ing, sometimes plain. light comb gold. With pale gold u „d other is the prettiest n P^ oU ded amber charming accessories . nflS tc hair-pins” with wide heads inlet with pah .