Fashions.

Otago Witness, Issue 1581, 11 March 1882, Page 28

Fashions.

Deep black is in fashion for full dress at this - This is in . great measure due to the celebra tlon'of Lenten solemnities. The ARnsuian mourning veil is folded differ totly from the veil usually worn in flowing fold* down theback. . „ It forma a thick square of crape over the head and on the nape of the neok, before it is allowed to shroud the Bhoulders behind. Crape is employed for drapery, and, by way bf trimming; less, for crosscuts than for deep he XlkJrtmade of a fabric now called • Egyptian, mummy,*' which is of course a very deep and dead black, is worn for the ewherntage* o? mourning. This fabric is not unlike the black flannel now so universal at St. Petersburg, but less Woolly on the surface. Black Sweden gloves are long. The bodiceß are coat-ahaped, with sleeves having Blasheß of durable crape. For dinner dress, the hair is adorned with black feathers or black crape flowers, and kuri ouriy enough, hair-pins may be white crystal knobbed rsonßbadea and umbrellas haye nandies,to correspond.' The Becond Btage of mourning may bajOarathea mixed With dead black and fSSft* corded of frilled flilk material, but this is "■SStf Efift-b J* * **+&** 80 profusely, that a tjoilet is more like an Smrar of Shimmering, glistening beads ,than, "SiIKSSSStoM from chains in fee fringe, or are in perpetual motion above a Srinoeis-ahaped capotte: this is ob ained by a•pring that v threaded into the ball inatead ol '* B^k' Spanish lac©Mworn fIU widths «&** vtunlca andior frillson underskirte. Black jetted tulle is made up for fichus. Blabk aatin arid black vehur mele.ot bro eaded velvet, are favourite combinations for Sg drei; while the other nlixtnre, black SuraTand broche, is qnite as much liked for '^uch^ttention is being paid'to colours botb for Bummer and immediate wear. Buohes are very dressy; but young people canriot always be dressy, and the prettiest coUar ever will be a fine Irish Imen that it Bhape follows the leading Btyle of the hour. This latter is a stand-out shape ; it fc monnted on a deep band, and goes off from the shoulder-sewn outwards. . For open bodices, the plissed or tucked plas-tron-a habit skirt-is very oharming. Charming reticules are made in the shape ol an egg, half-plush for the oval quarters, witb M tK bags awdrawn in by means of a riot cord, through which the arm ia passed. They replace, by way of a useful trifle, tiu Havally muff. . The shape of the egg is .an allusion tr Easter, but this was not essential to render the oval acceptable, for of all ahapeß the egg it £$ JSSSK squares are too heavy, and the C °A>r a ay Ac is guided round the new Oavally reticule, or any other tapering b *ffiden-browa and sapphire are pretty mixta MoVs and azure, myrtle and almond, tan and ecarfet, orevettes-brown and pink, brown and dull copper,' steel and pink, forest-green anr buff ivory, and scaly-green or pool, brown and buff all the Indian and Cashmere incruata. Sons are themes for reproduction, especially the soft-coloured and the Persian. Embroideries have beoome archaic. There Is a'noted rotnrn to the very earliest design? imagined. They are stiff birds, yew trees, and flower-pots, the same which distracted juvenile «ample makers when little girls sat on bard wooden forms counting threads and crying ovei cross-stitch letters. These samples are ofterj come acroaa at wayside inDB in England, where they are framed over the ohimney -piece ofthf best parlour. Nowadays bed and table linen to all decorated in thia old-faßhioned way, caltod the Russian atifcch, possibly because thf Asiatics marked Russian bath towela in thi* manner. It is «<J and W U9 « ,t, t „. ... In' jewellery the great novelty is the setting of plain ptrU de. eoque with gems'— thus : the body of a cock is of pearl, and the wings, <fee. all diamonds; a large codfish is of pearl, and tie harpoon run through his body ia o< g6 Tne newest neckties are creps de chine dc trcpeU, with a fall of tulle on the borders, the tulle called point-d' esprit. Pomt-d'espnt ia » «aoall dot on the transparent fabric.

Dlstitißtmhed Amattea.-The Ppet. Poetic Husband.-' Hear this Sonaet of mine, Emily. It has cost me much labour ; and though I say. it who shouldn't, it's not unworthy of Shakoa peare or Milton.' Prosaic Wife.— * Certainly, •my lore, But I wish you wouldn't write Bonnetof on our beat oream-laid note pape* I I mMt «gst you sons foolscap I'—Punch.