TME LADIES COLUMN EDITED BY "EVA"

Observer, Volume 1, Issue 21, 5 February 1881, Page 208

TME LADIES COLUMN EDITED BY "EVA"

—Handkerchief costumes have had their day. —Plush will he among the winter novelties. —Tinsel ties are all sham. —Mrs. P. has got a new polka dock dress. —Lace is still " first" in trimmings. —Black ruffling has been replaced by cream. —V-shaped fronts are all the rage. —Velvet jerseys are a novelty. —Pointed panniers are now worn on dresses. — Langtry hoods are considered out of fashion. —Pompadour holds its own against all comers. —Bodices are still worn buttoned at the back. —Plaids have not taken so well as was at first anticipated. —Close dtting hats are going to be the first winter change. —Corduroy cloth for ladies' garments is a new idea. —Do not place coloured pleatings under the kilting, but stitch them on the edge. —Cashmere dresses are trimmed with velvet and jet. —The latest " foolery " in dresses is a watch pocket on the left breast. —Some girls think it looks nice to have deep collars buttoned at the back. —A very pretty cap can be made out of an Indian silk pocket handkerchief. —Canton flannel is something new for dresses. —Cord and tassels for looping up dresses is the latest "dodge." —What did "all the saints" think about Mrs. S.s new bonnet last Sunday? —It's a good idea to have "lisse" frilling of the same colour as the dresses. —Cascaded lace is. to be worn on evening dresses now for a change. —A nice morning cape can be made of spotted cambric. —Odd enough— bodices are now cut pointed in front and square at the back. —Poppies adorn the head of many of ( Our gay young ladies when " away from home. Miss F. has had her head put into a boatshaped hat and looks as if she could not help it. —Mrs. C. wears a nice green lustre, trimmed with light pompadour and pale blue bows. —I notice that Miss F., of Parnell has a new -cream bonnet. —Jet capes have had a good run, and are now considered "out." —Black lace scarves for the neck are much worn. —The ladies of St. Paul's are going about with " Swallow tales." — The most elegant costumes of cashmere or beige are made in cuir or leather colour. Plain corsages have either a pointed, round, or square bask. — The medici sleeve is a Ismail cape, about £ye inches deep, falling from, the shoulder, —Breakfast dresses are now made short, with long jackets, trimmed with lace and hows of ribbon. —An elegant toilet now -visible any fine day •consists of cream and brown, made with skirt and pointed polonaise. —Miss W. now bedecks her elegant figure in a. sage green lustre, with silk trimming of the same shade. —Mrs. S. has come out in her new old gold and black costume. It has created a good deal of talk, and is a really handsome dress. "Wanted — the name of the owner of that orange "garment" that has made a "show" lately, One of the most noticeably-dressed ladies on board the " Lady Jocelyn" was undoubtedly Mrs. Tom Barnet. A new thing in shoes is to have them of the same colour as the dress. The toes of one j colour with the back of another. The Marguerite chatelaine bags are com- '< Sosed of satin covered with a bouquet of owers. Mrs. M. has come forth enveloped in a fine black cashmere, trimmed with Paisley pompadour, altogether goodly to look upon. — For evening dresses, the colours most worn are pale pink, pale blue, pale green,_ rose and cream any of these may be obtained in sateens and look just as well as silks. —A startling "get up" lately exhibited by a young lady in Queen-street is a dress with skirt made entirely of cardinal, with cream polonaise and cardinal sleeves. — I have seen something really novel lately, viz., a black silk dress, very stylishly-made, with imitation gold girdle around the waist and gold bonnet to correspond. — Mrs. C. wears a pretty bronze green silk, trimmed with satin of the same shade and made princess robe with gathered front and long train.

The directoirc is a very elegant mantle, composed of rich silk or satin and lined throughout with either quilted old gold or red silk. — I have observed a very elegant dress of fawn and wine colour, with trimmings of the same material, The foot of the dress had about six rows of small points laced on in place of kilting. —What might be vulgularly termed a really " immense " costume now adorns the shapely figure of a young lady recently arrived from London, viz.— a grey lustre, trimmed with pompadour and cardinal bows. — A new style for dresses is the Greek polonaise, the bodice Of which is something after the same fashion as the pinafore. It is made pleated both back and front and the back is left long so as to form a train over a short princess robe. —I have seen in Queen-street lately a black and old gold costume, with deep kilting round skirt, folded sash and revers of old gold. It is altogether a very pretty dress. The young lady also wears a black chip hat, trimmed with old gold pompadour. — A new tennis costume which is considered very pretty and lady -like, consists of a short skirt, edged with three gathered flounces, which might be pleated if preferred. A polonaise, edged with a gathered flounce and corselet of plain material, laced up in front and on the hips with silk laces, while the sleeves match. —A cheque for £225,000 sterling to a young lady on her wedding-day must be a very agreeable surprise, yet a cheque for this amount was recently given to a young lady on her day of marriage. The bride was Miss Alice E. Taylor, and the bridegroom, who had it in his power to be thus generous, Mr. John H. Shoenberger, a Pennsylvauian gentleman, son of a Pennsylvanian iron manufacturer.