THE LADIES' COLUMN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6936, 9 February 1884, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE LADIES' COLUMN.

: ; FASHION NOTES. I Jet ia as much worn as ever. : Steel blue is among new colours. : Escurial remains tha favourite lace ofdressy •women. Slender lace pins are still the favourite form for brooches. Glycine, a pale pinkish inauve, ia the newest thing in colours for evening. Fichus, plastrons, and large collars of lace are immensely fashionable. Some stylish walking suits are in stockinette, which drapes very gracefully. Black lace net, darned with gold thread in geometric patterns, will be used for ball dresses. Chenille fringes oro very handsome when used discreetly—that is to say, sparingly—on wraps and costumes. Trains are to be seen on the new importations of dinner and evening dresses, and these trains are very full and long.

Titian red, a lovely shade verging on auburn, bids fair to the most fashionable bright colonr of the incoming season. The grand novelty in shopping bags is of fine Turkish leather or morocco, embossed either in arabesquea self-coloured or, handsome still, with figures and insects in natural colours on a dark ground. English bonnets of this season are large, many of them being copies in chenille o£ the summer bonnets of straw. English hats are also quite large, and many of them have the eccentric brims of last season.

Among elegant novelties in dress trimmings sent over from Paris are richly embroidered metallic bullions and incrustations of semiprecious stones in relief upon velvet ohenille, brocaded satins, and finely damassed silks in Louis XIII. deeigns. Sealskin is much employed in making up imitations heads of trimming. A handsome cloak of dark-brown brocaded cloth is fastened down the entire front, and also clasped oh either eide with tiny terriers' heads made of dark seahkin, and fastened to the garment with small brass chains.

Lustrous Irish poplins are vevived from long obscurity. Many of these compare favourably with the heirlooms long ago consigned to linen envelopes and laid away in chests, more particularly in a colour just revived of royal purple and purplea of a lighter shade. ■ ' ■