TME LADIES COLUMN EDITED BY "EVA"

Observer, Volume 2, Issue 31, 16 April 1881, Page 329

TME LADIES COLUMN EDITED BY "EVA"

— No more heliotrope at present. — Tiger plush is the latest novelty. • — We all have outside pockets now ! — Pompadour plush can he obtained. • —Fur capes will again be worn for winter. — Tis almost time summer costumes were laid by. — Kiltings are still fashionable trimmings. —Peacock feathers will adorn many pretty head-dresses. — Tweed and serge dresses may have cuffs and collars of fur. — The Misses Whitaker are on a visit to Wai w era. — Very large fancy buttons are worn on tweed dresses. — The Opera season is bringing a few elegant •costumes out. — On children's hats the tassels are hung in front. — Mrs. Bs bonnet of creme and old gold is ■decidedly pretty. — Widow's bonnets are entirely of folded ■crape. — Pouff's on the back of dresses are now fixed ■so as to form two large rovers. —Linen cuff's and collars are alxmt in large numbers, and are fast gaining favour. — The latest hat ornament for ladies' hats is the Hitchcock tassel. It is very becoming. — Gathered .sleeves, to look well, should be made of a soft material. — Every dress turned out lately has something in the shape of a gathered vest. —Coloured laces with gilt points are used as •dress trimmings as well as cord and tassels. — Flowers adorn the necks of many ladies at •evening parties. — Miss George looks well in a wine lustre, with satin trimmings of the same shade. — Lotti Wihnot generally appears in deep mourning, and seems to disapprove of gay colours. — The new costumes callingf or complimentary notice are as follows : — — A pompadour costume with polqnais c and :skirt and olive-green bows, seen in („)ueenstreet on Thursday. — Cardinal and pompadour, with sleeves and skirt of cardinal, and polonaise looped up very Mgh on the left side. — Creme sateen, made with polonaise and ■.skirt, the skirt being decorated with trimmings of creme lace and black bows. — Pompadour on the principle of skirt and basque bodice, trimmed with black, and rink hat to match ; wearer, rather tall and slight. — Pretty black sateen, trimmed with creme, and made with polonaise and skirt ; broad band of creme round polonaise, and creme bows. — Mrs. Alfred Isaacs appeared last Monday in an elegant and most elaborately got-up pompadour satin, with trimmings of black. — Alsatian bows are worn both in the hair and on Gainsboro' hats ; Auckland beam are worn round the waist and neck. — Mrs. George wears a pretty fawn costume trimmed with pompadour a la Princess ; also a awn bonnet with cardinal front. — Miss Harrison wears a becoming creme costume a la Princess, with draped sashes, each of which are bordered with three narrow rows of cardinal. — Miss SS t of Onehunga, appeared in town last Wednesday in a pale pink sateen, in the Princess style, with pointed draperies, and •trimmed with creme lace. — An open question — whether it is right and proper for lady and gentlemen Sunday-school teachers to indulge in wholesale hugging whenever a social (humbug) gathering is held ? — A tall young lady is exhibiting a horrible of dress-making in the shape of a Hack and creme dress, with deep kilted skirt of black; creme bodice, and "follow behind" of ■creme. " — New chums are politely requested to take some little notice of Auckland fashions and observe, that every little boy and girl do *' not " walk up and down town with arms ronnd each others waists. However, "Where innocence is bliss, etc." The drill-mistress of a certain public school, made confidantes of her pupils last week, and told a pitiful story about being persecuted by the Observer man (see last number). She also suggested that the best thing that could be done was for everybody to stop talcing the paper. — Her daughter, however, is of a different opinion, and possesses a cardinal and white over-all. She wears her hair "shingled," and a small felt toque sits lightly on her head. Her dresses are short (very much so), and her boots are long-buttons, without heels, and turned-up toes. A. riding whip is seldom out of her ri^ht hand, and a puppy looks happy under her arm, while its mother is kept to pace by her mistress, who keeps hold of an ear. The young lady has a style decidedly her own. —A Pansy gown recently Avorn at a Paris ball was the success of the evening. It was old gold silk, brocaded with purple, and was made with a shirred underskirt, a coat basque and a Maintenon train. A wreath of pansies in beaded chenille extended across the front breath, pansies were knotted at the throat and in the hair, and bands of pansies extended across the front of the arm, fastening the sleeve which only covered the back of the arm.