FASHION NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1342, 18 August 1877, Page 19

FASHION NOTES.

The Breton style, which it was believed wajt destined;, to be only an .ephemeral caprice,, is gaining ground. At the last rage&v&het handsomest equipages were occupied with toilettes wholly Breton or with, Bretop trimmings'. 3Jhe summer silk dresses shown at, the fashionable modistes are not the checked and .striped taffetas worn, last year, but srqsqft twilled foulards, or else lusterless ul&fftn figured designs, armure patterns, damask/ and fish-scale brocades.

JTh&,i,new yellow-trimmed bonnet has beeji.iiQt inappropriately .called the Jaundice Hejmet. Sunflower ; Headgear =or Omelette Qranium Decorator would do as well,* however,-, since a new line of facatiQu^sneuat the. expensaof the ladies has. be*» opento journalist*. ' • , (t .- — The Marguerite polonaise, with its two long-loopda bows on the side forms of the back, is the design most seen among these batistes and the -whiter muslins. The Margne^ji larger . and longer than formerly^ -ana consist: of ! two^ three, and sometimes four colours. New linen collars are .cut low at the throat, but they have revers that fold ddWly > together ' and conceal ' the' throat. Thfcieages are: [ nee3le-worked : in scollops' ofrwd with* blacky bine, or grey. India colours are wrought on the turned-over E4gfiSbtspinfc '"■ '■'";• ' '• ' -A -late '-Paris' ffovelty' consists ; of leaf fans,* some of ! {hem apparently formed with a series of fern or begonia leaves, and look Kke a branch'of J shaded grtfdtf or autumn - leaves, ' fastened ' and held by a veined handle to match. O&eWirei bordered with leaves, which are reproduced in smaller size' in the' painting'tipon the black aticks. WhitS.'is more Used than oolonra for evianing/dresVes-;' white satin with white chambery gauze, white silk and white crape^de. chine • next to this black has bevpow very fashionable. A recent balldreas of black satin, covered with scarfs of^iace embroidered in gold floss flowers, and another in black with the over-dress •Wfelirig-.with' fine cut .jet, were both imahed'by the "addition of long undressed kifrgloves reaching almost to the • elbow, •i&flaaedf'infeide.the arm togiVe it the ulose fit 'requisite/; V > IBier©'' are' wnisrJera abroad of rapid changes in : the shapes" of dresses to be worjiwer crinoline, bUt Worth and Piugathave shown no 1 disposition as' yet to depart 'from the long sheathed and draped dztMues; s Gordinga are conspicuous 'in French* dresses, ■ the -seauis of cuirasae waists having cordings of contrasting colour>Qemori- colour corded with cardinil^thescarfafor drapery embroidered in~ cardinal flossj and' poppies -used in decorating. Green dresses with bias bands •re corded with light yellow or lighter shades of gpeen.- ~" ' sEhe tide of ladies' -fashion has, I hear, turned in -favour of excessive plainness in .dress.^^Materials are still to.be; rich, bdtthe^make is to be severely simple. Short: mantles instead of long^ and no mo*ol gorgeously "fanciful embroidery. All ornament .is to be, reserved for the bonnets; which are to be massive structures/ rainbow-hued, and a perfect /?ar&rre of ■'flowers.' < • Ladies are to wear smart dressing, gowns for afternoon tea, and at quiet dinners' before, a ball; Mr Worth is making hirdresses much 'shorter, and the -present particularly inconvenient long trains are J to- be abbreviated, which is a blessing for which diners-out will be thankful; -Itt' tfrict, everything is to' be simplified arid' shortened except the Court milliner's bills.