Bodoir Gossip on Frocks And Fashions.

Observer, Volume XI, Issue 754, 10 June 1893, Page 14

Bodoir Gossip on Frocks And Fashions.

(Bx Giadts.)

Amongst the moßt stylish walking oostumes I have noticed daring the one or two fine days we were favoured with in the past week were Mrs C. Buddie, stylish grey sMrt and jacket, terra-cotta silk blouse and pretty little hat; Miss Nashelski looked nice in blue skirt and jacket, pink blouse and stylish felt hat ; Mrs I. Alexander, very stylish grey and fawn corduroy costume, dainty little hat ; Mrs Naahelski, pretty grey costume; Mrs Ching, stylish navy blue dress, hat to match; Miss Anderson looked extremely well in navy blue and stylish hat with strings of velvet; Mrs George, tasteful grey costume ; Mrs Haines, perfeotly fitting myrtle green dresß with vest, collar and cuffs of handsome embroidery ; Miss Law, tasteful green dress, trimmed with plaid velvet, hat to matoh; Misses Thornes, pretty blue costumes ; Miss Walker, well made brown costume ; Miss Stevenson, becoming grey costume ; Mrs Dennis ton, tasteful navy blue skirt and jacket, light blouße and pretty little hat.

Bangle bracelets, half an inch wide, are popular. a „ Do not wear large hats at the theatre, as they are a burden to yourself, and a nusiance to many.

As many as fifteen, rows of narrow velvet are worn on the fall skirts of woollen gowns.

Full velvet sleeves are worn with gowns of all sorts, whether the fabric be transparent gauze or heavy oloth.

The latest fancy in veils is of

wide mesh, with a border of two, and sometimes three, rows of black ribbon velvet.

A pretty trimming for an evening skirt is a deep flounce of lace, headed with two or three narrow puffs.

A pretty way to renovate a rattan chair which has become soiled is to have it painted black, and then varnished. For a decoration, run ribbon of any bright shade through the open work border and place a cushion of the same shade in the seat. Burnt orange, or any shade of yellow makes a lovely contrast with the black.

Trianon blue and old rose are gradually usurping the gold and white combinations as a colour scheme for household decoration. All the new models in furniture and stuffs in hangings are of these soft and pleasing^'tints, which are as lovely by gaslight as they are charming in daylight, and which clash not at all with other tints and colours.

When, as sometimes happens, one is forced to wear an uncomfortably tight shoe, it may be of value to know that a folded cloth wet in hot water and laid over the pinching point will often speedily afford relief. Change the cloth several- times to keep up the heat, which shortly stretches the shoe and shapeß it to the foot.

For evening wear 'flower wreaths are extremely becoming with the present style of hair-dressing, as also is the ribbon bandeau with a rather high bow in front and just a tiny one to form a finish to the back. Other fashionable adornments are the new bead circles for wearing round the knob of hair, and through the hair is also worn a kind of dagger. The daintiest bows and aigrettes are shown, also Grecian coronets and jewelled tiaraß. Ball gowns are profusely trimmed with ' artificial flowers and velvet roses without foliage, poppies of varied hues, yellow narcissus, and garlands of Scotch heather. Laburnum, iris or juniper berries are beautiful used in this way.

New cushion and sachet bags are made in saddle-bag fashion, and are made of plush, silk, or brocade, tied together with ribbons in large bows.

Black gowns are once more to the front, and lustrous materials are considered ' the most becoming, while bengalines and Ottoman-faille are especial favourites. *

Cuffs worn outside the sleeves are among the new fancies, and are shown in lace, linen and kid, while with' outing gowns the kid cuffs are chosen to match a lace corselet of the same.

Jacket waists are the ones preferred by most girls, and they, fire made in innumerable shapes, but are invariably short. Many jackets- have the wide revere, and these are especially becoming to thin, undeveloped figures.

There seems to be almost a rage for violets as hat trimmings, and they are frequently nsed so profusely as to compose nearly the whole hat. Violets and mimosa is a favourite combination.

Coats and capes look best fashioned with a continuous collar ; that is, one that has no seam at the neck, bnt is carried up straight from the wrap itself, with no dividing line, and this method imparts a certain grace and appearance of length when it does not really exist.

In cotton goods for summer dresses, pique, line corduroy, French cambric, and Swiss muslins will be extensively used. Batistes and ginghams come in such fine weaves, delicate finish,' and artistic patterns that they will be eagerly souprht for ladieß' dresses as well as children's gowns.

This pretty coat is made in two materials, the under part being in a plain oloth, which might with advantage match the costume it is worn over. Wide revere turn back from the front, held in place by a wide sash of velvet, in the same tone of colour as the darker part of the fanoy overcoat, which bangs in pleats from under the revere, and in the centre of the back. Full upper sleeves of the fancy, over cuffs of the plain with Tudor points. <

Fawn and purple is a popular and stylish combination. A skirt of fawn cloth, edged with a narrow fold of purple velvet -trimming, the ■ bodice of the cloth with huge sleeves and a Sort of folded corselet bodice of the velvet and jet combined, makes an exceedingly stylish street oostume.

The jacket fever grows, and every day they beoome more luxurious in fabrics, and garniture. White kid in many carved arabesques outlined with gold thread, and' out out in an effeot of Russian embroidery, is one of the> manifestations, while cloth of gold, in the glitterring mesneSjOf which Boman" pearls are caught, is another fancy. Jet, gold beads, silver threads, silk braids, lace, velvet, etc., are some of the materials in which {faese jaunty little garments are made.

Cheviot goods are trimmed a good deal with velveteen and have for the foot trimmings a plain band of it, or sometimes a trimming of alternate rowß of material and velveteen is used.

A new dress material in wash goods is called Corean silk, and comes in all the light shades of pink, blue and yellow in navy blue and whjLte. It has a silk surface with self-coloured figures, and iB a particularly pretty fabric for blouses and morning gowns.

Skirts for children's dresses are straight and full, and generally without trimming. In length they Btaould fall just over the knees for little girls, and Bhould reach half way from the knees to the tops of the boots for girls twelve to fourteen years of age.