FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume XVII, Issue 1723, 5 February 1862, Page 4

FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER.

Autumn is fast progressing, with pleasant strides, it is true, but still that should not prevent us from looking forward to the cold and rainy days that the fall of the year is sure io bring with it. The month of November is a disagreeable time lor Mdme. la Mode, a sort of entr’acte between tlie seasons. However, winter fashions are not yet in question, if we except the outer covering, which, as a sanitary precaution, can never be prepared too soon. On this account we have selected two out of a number of new Parisian cloaks for illustration, the Manteau Marojaesa and the Vlanteau Hongrois,described below. We intend on future occasions to introduce the Murillo, Magicien. and Etoile cloaks to the appreciation of our fair readers. For morning toilet light or dark coloured alpacas or foulard are to predominate during the ensuing month; nankeen, grey, and brown are preferred. The violet alpaca is also a great favourite for the last days of autumn. Such morning dresses are generally plain, or trimmed merely with checked ribbons, violet and white, black and white, scarlet and black, according to the colour of the robe. As for bonnets, the time has at length arrived for the abandonment of all ihose eccentricities which have obtained so much success throughout the summer at the different English Continental water-ing-places, and the return to the seriousf chapeau, which is indisputably the most suitably of all coverings for the female head. It is but justice to say that the hats now to be laid aside are most becom-

ing, for country or seaside wear, to young and pretty faces; but, at the same time, how ridiculous they appear when worn by Nature’s unfavoured or by elderly persons! A great richness in the floral and ribbon ornaments is also the peculiar characteristic of the bonnets for the coming season. For cool evenings at home, or as an additional covering over the shoulders of an out-of-door garment, there is nothing better than one of the little woollen crochet shawls that are just now creating quite a sensation with all classes in Paris, and are to be seen in every form and variety of mixed colours at all the linen-drapers’ shops in the capital. They are exceedingly pre’ty and graceful, and their cost is so moderate as to place them within the reach of the most modest purses.