A ROYAL MILLINER.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3308, 8 November 1883, Page 3

A ROYAL MILLINER.

Ever since the Fishery Exhibition, 1 when the Princess of Wales appeared at the fair in a simple dress and small capote bonnet trimmed by herself, the English milliners and modistes —every man and woman of them —have experienced the liveliest indignation. But this war in their hearts will not produce a revolution, or in the least effect the example the royal lady chooses to set, English women adore their Princess, and will certainly adopt such styles as she may introduce or acknowledge. Nor will the effect of the simple toilets of the Princess of Wales be confined to the clear-comploxioned daughters p£ Britain. With the growing tendency

among fashionable circles in New York, for everything English, it is safe to conclude that English styles of dress will prevail to a great extent here during the fall and winter season. Of course onr own dressmakers and milliners will fight an innovation that means a loss of dollars and cents to them, but many ladies will welcome it just for the novelty of the thing, and surely it will prove a blessed boon of comfort to innumerable heads of families with recent unpleasant Wall street experiences in memory. Ample proofs have been given since the advent of that innocent little capote bonnet, which first fired the English milliners’ hearts with revolt, that the Princess is determined on a new order of things, and that her example is already doing its perfect work. She appeared in a white muslin dress, simply trimmed with lace, and wearing a small white bonnet, at a garden party given by the Prince and herself at Marlborough. The ladies in attendance, for the most part, were attired in short morning dresses. _ The Princess and daughters wore crimson cashmere dresses, with Jersey bodices, black silk stockings, and high boots. At the Goodwood meeting, where heretofore plain toilets have been few and far between, the Princess wore a dress of dark navy-blue silk, exceedingly plain and devoid of ornamentation, and_ a black straw bonnet simply adorned with a small plume of bright scarlet feathers. Even when the occasion is such _as to demand an eleg ant toilet, simplicity of style characterises it. An instance of this is the toilet worn by the same royal lady at the recent drawing-room, where she presided. This was of white velvet and white satin trimmed with small pearls ; the train was of the same materials and drawn together with white roses resting on green leaves.—American paper.