It does not seem possible for lovers of gay dresses or bright colours to make any mistake this year in their dressing. The dresses promise to be more complicated in form and more daring in colour, not only in brilliance, but in combination. Indeed, the great milliners intend to follow the coming Parisian fashion of using three different colours together, both on dresses and on bonnets and hats. Everything is to be gay, brilliant, even startling. The very quietest combinations of colour, for walking-dreases and afternoons are what a couple of years ago we should have thought quite extraordinary—fawn and brown and gold, or black and green, this last being a very favourite mixture. All the skirts are made to hang in straight folds, some with folds stiffened quite into solid rolls at the back ; some with the simple coat back and broad pleats from the waist. In the front in some oases the Bkirt is put in full also, the folds made to fall very gracefully, or there Is a long sideways drapery.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 878, 28 December 1888, Page 5
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