BONNETS AND SKIRTS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 265, 6 October 1875, Page 4

BONNETS AND SKIRTS.

The Dansdin Saturday Advertiser dtSMssrsea thus Ton those important arUclee of female dresa: — I roast give vyoa a word about headgear:— Bonnets .and hate are of every kind (writes a Paris cprreapondent). Some are charmiflg, kome are eccentric, come are y impossible. If I wanted to take a teUer jreveoge on an enemy, I would adviser her so procure a head-dress in Uitc¥>PsQam> straw, to which a fashtonairfe ~ Priooesa has given her oawa>(\ cTho. Meiternich bonnet does if(|t|)i]3cb^ie every one. The crowo of it Is tail and pointed like the steeple ef a charcl; the brim is trimmed with feathers, and at tbe aide should be iasfaned a stuffed bird of some kind— ■ 'afinki pl*» '* TOblpi a hoaimiog-bird, a parroqoe^ according to last©. This \ reminds me that under Louis XV. the Dooheaa of Obartrea appeared at the ihestre ooe eveoiDg wearing in her '? : hdrJbor dWigb^r'a portrait, & parroquel b^iiag »t « cherry, and a little negro ■J« aapporting the* Whole. , I have seen J^ite.n&ißaj after t-'Meroury, which are like oval turbans ia wh^ite straw, bound With bl»ck r Velvet, and trimmed with, veils, or with jays' wings side of the hat. Busj between ourselves, I must say that 'Hircury. is responsible for some ugly afansaotioos, add I fancy. it ia rather domprcwßising to aoceptv the god's even for a hat.* -One must fall back upon the Gainsborough' in ttifck Kegliab airaw, or the eternal Paia^la t ;i which abades Jhe fao^ from the BUD^ but In my opinion throws dark tints bn the fairest skins. The only Are/Reasonable flowers, bangib||pn long festoons below tbe waist. ; I jnay. remark, Ky tbe way, that in the 6ounffy it would be wise to avoid the laifta ajad goat?, wj^sp^^ pounce : wheat andypoppies affci corn- " flpjrere that oruamjfnt our head-o^Baes : wft|o.nt^aqy whatever. '-X^ '. t : ,^^jnother correspondent says t — The\ '.'' popular bonnet for the last three weeks has been coarse white straw, gipsy shap^l jin'ed with black velvet, trimmed / with^a* profusion of white ostrich ; feathers.^ How long Wiis may be in 'voguJß^, would be ipapossiple to say, one style of bonnet is expected to be worn for more than a month. One of the eccentricities of -fashion is for ladies who go out early in the Vo^prniiig^ to, wear a robe 'of Holland jlDen^ whichis all cut in one piece, '-v';i«ia i the dreeaes which used to be ■:-v kaow^p as Gabrieiles, and confined at ihe^ by a cord and taase!. Underneath ia the magnificent promenade dreas, peeps of which are given, eapacially at the throat, where the silver Coliarp, which are so fashionable, %bYQ v ocltßide the dress to support the Bfcaadu^ collar, may be sees. Having" given you a dose on the bonnets, Jba transition to skirta is easy. of them is a nuisance. The Tadies in the great metropolis are called jtreet-sweepers. The London correa- ( ot the Belfast News-Letter *wrl^;-r-The London exodus has fairly •se( in, and people are either moving f'Y^ot' tojwn or^reparing for it with leal energy. ! TP shops have not yet begun to lopk'aiogy; they have not had.||m,e«!and there is no d ost blowing tUia f;ye«Vf but the notices posted over the , plate glass windows, announcing fh^fe th^ir anoual s»lea at reduced prices %«VB^v%olnmenced, give a shabby look Wen tb° the best shops. Cheapness is but^ of keeping with greatness; and » 5 one reads of " alarming sacrifices" - 4bH ; 'se«fa showy dresses offered for un eXpeSJteily small prices, it is impossible not to realise that the ladies who could require such dresses' are far away, TKo^e__who remaio in Loudon now eaohew "street-sweeping," as tbe dragging of a great train along the ground ia called, economy forbidding; - b^^lhV; rstepayera . .• will miss the obliging ladiea who kept the aide-walks '; cleibj aad regret exceedingly that the ■ ttma T of , the annual migration has ar? lri?ed. ; Curious, impertinently curious, -pppple wooder what these bdies will vio^ wfth these inconveaient dresses in tShecoaatry. " [ slways^How a skirt _at tb^e back to be two yaras and a* half .W length for a lady of full height," a ; dressmaker said the other day, apolo■glaipgjfor^requiriqg 25 yards of Bilk for what ahe called a plain morning dress; „ And , she r was . one who is supposed to Know her business. 2t Apropos of the long skirts, a pleasing incident ia related of that most of seosible women, the Prioceea of ' Walei; . She was present at the Sai-dert party at Strawberry Hill, and a Loicdon correspondent gives the fol- . lowing account of what, took place; — It aee|ns that after the company bad assembled, a shower of rain came on wh^cbt of course, drove the gay string (the Prjnce andPrinceaa of Wales in. eluded) from grass to a marquee erected oq tb^grounde. Fortunately ; the fato was but of briefed oratioD; and, when it r had subsided, the ladies emerged from their shelter, and again begaa to,*'cirouUte" among tbe grounds.] Many bt ihelr dresses were^ I need/ acaroely. say, of exaggerated length/ aod to & well-regulated mind it wal ■" diatreaaing to see the -way in whicß tpains became saturated with water anfl ; covered with mud. Dresses that colt jposaibly 20,-30^ or 40 guinea?, weJs -irailed throagb iha wet gravel, an], 'df^po^raei irreparably ioj ured j whiL jtita haalth of the wearer was seripuali iosperilled. The Princess of Walel ■fcV:^Mi'-/BtO't ; among the number ofthoa* who either apciled thair clothes or : a candidate for- rheumatism or bronchfiia. Her Royal Highneea's traio 0&W& r .w T ■■-.:■;. ' - .'-

--was, £,am agpred, of modest dimension as compared with those of many of the other ladies present; but as it waald still have swept the ground, she gathered it op and held it with her right hand, while she passed her left under the arm of the Prince of Wales. Tbe Princess looked none the less dignified, as, among other attractions, she haa the most charming lfttle (ee£ in i he world.