FASHION NOTES

Observer, Volume 5, Issue 120, 30 December 1882, Page 246

FASHION NOTES

' " vßt " Jbnnt Wbek." Waistcoats grow in favour. ,* Mahogany -red gloves are much worn^ *>,%?$ Long plainly-made redingotes are fashionable. Eoyal cardinal is the favourite colour for chil'dren's dresses. * Cloth goods embroidered with soutache are popular. ' -. Oriental designs are in greater favour than the flowered patterns. * Costumes of dars;> fancy plaid are much worn in Paris.' Common fishing-cord is used now for coarse crochetf; instead of Aaorame lace. The .Q-lengarry^cap :yf bright scarlet wool is worh by boys and f.;irls. . . ... ' Mantles are muc'L- smaller, shorter, and lessened in every wajr, except in price. * Sjciiienne and Irish poplin are coming into - fasfiion along with other jepped goods. Stripes 'are much worn in all kinds of material, and; used in combination with red fabrics, are very effective.* .*' " ' Coloured laces are *juite in fashion at the present^ moment,, but the style is- not likely to last. '<_ . ; ■-. . .Children's costumes just now are charming. Little out-door dresses are made of pique or twill in white and pale cream-colour, trinimed with embroidery. ? ; \ * One. hundred and fifty' of ribbon— thirty yards each of terfa-rcotta, pale bluej plive, creamcolour, and brown— went to make%p the trimmings of a successfjil toilet fronj^over the sea. My Napier correspondent writes : — Flounces Itaye quite taken the place of killings in Napier. Pink and peacock-blue are seen v^herever you turn j in fact we are beginning to%elieve it possible to get too much of eveir good things. Mr Holloway Has an iwjstortment of children's and ladies' hats,^also f^r quantity of dress materials, which he is now "selling at reduced prices. The black ejros-grain ?ilk is really very cheap, and makes up beautifully. Jackets and barques of every descriptioii'Snd colour are worn over skirts of a contrasting material. The shapes are varied, and are in styles suitable to every age. They are invariably close fitting, are cut with a narrow collar, and button straight down the fiont. One of the best' displays of Xmas and New Year Cards is to be seen at Mr Lennox's establishment, in Queen-street, who also has a large and carefully-selected stock of books suitable for presents for adults and children, and which are now being sold at very moderate prices. Novel French mantles are made of black merveilleux or canvas grenadine, cut as a. rather „ long shoulder-cape, with a border of chenille fringe glittering with jet, silver, or a mixture of coloured beads. The cape forms a V-shaped opening in fronts followed by two finely-plaited scarfs of fancy silk starting from the shouldergores, and contracted afc # the waist by a number of close shirrings j thence these scarfs cross and fall over the tapered ends of the cape. A charming toilette is of navy-blue batiste, flowered with branches and leaves, gold and flame-coloured, in relief. This material washes without losing colour — a great advantage — and is made with a pleated skirt and a kind of Dubarry blouse, fitting behind, but loose in front, with a . double jabot of coquill^lgce^^Qjys^^Mb^dge^f Ma tiiie H bioi^&^^£BKfl|^fl9BH|K^H9H|HH