The Embroidery Craze

Otago Witness, Issue 1598, 8 July 1882, Page 27

The Embroidery Craze

Embroidery this year is to be greatly favoured, and already the leading warehouses are exhibiting very elegant costumes covered with this beatiful garniture. These are of satin, silk, and woollen fabrics, with overdresses or panels, ruffles, and Watteau tunics in charming broiderie ariglaise patterns worked in silk. Pale tinted embroideries on_ dresses of nun's veiling and Vigogne are considered^ supremely elegant, many of the elaborate designs being half a yard deep, with narrow bands for the bodice and overdress. More beautiful than even these are the Persian gauzes and mulls with deep jardiniere borderings in vivid hues. Embroidered kid is the latest trimming for walking costume. A pattern is traced and cut out, wheels, arabesques, flowers, &c, and worked in coloured Bilks, on white kid, and bands of the same employed for ornamenting black satin dresses, and, it is said, with excellent effect. The novelty is expensive, but that in the eyes of Fashion's devotees is but an advantage. The prevailing cold weather induces the use of furs, but 'not to any great extent, and Sydney ladies for the most part content themselves with donning tailor-made ulsters of warm material. A favourite way of making up those comfortable garments is with a double row of buttons down the front, so simulating a double-breasted coat ; side pockets and small capes or collars adorn the most stylish. Velvet and plush enter largely into winter cohtumes, and floral embroidery in metallic beads, bronze, green, garnet, peacock blue, and brown to match toilettes in hue ; most popular and effectn c trimming.