Boudoir Gossip on Frocks and Fashions

Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 925, 19 September 1896, Page 21

Boudoir Gossip on Frocks and Fashions

(By Gladys),

"When using velvet on a gown, be sure that the nap runs np. Small tucked sleeves are seen on many grass linen gowns. Costumes of black satin, combined with grass linen, are in favour. The old-fashioned high stock is seen on some of the pretty shire waists. Buckskin shoes are the popular thing with white sjownß, and pipeclay nsed as a polish will keep them clean. Bows, that have so long been worn at the back of the neck, are now petting round towards the front. Pink will be the prevailing colour in much of the summer millinaay, and pink straw hats, pink roses, and pink tulle abound. Biege-coloured petticoats are one of the fancies this season, and thej harmonise nicely with the batiste and tan gowns so much worn. The mannish stock is the most stylish finish for the necks of shirt waists, and consists of a high collar of satin or figured silk, with a stiff bow. White andtorquois is a fashionable combination for bridesmaids' gowns, white mußlin over white silk, with a torquois blue Bilk sash and collar, and a lace trimmed fichu making a lovely gown. As white is going to be fashionable a pretty way of freshening a dark gown is to add white facings. Eevers, cuffs, and perhaps a vest may be made of white cloth, and will give a very satisfactory effect. Skirts are much shorter than those worn last season, while the majority are without any trimming whatever, and fit closely around the hips, though the outspreading fulness commences just below this point. Skirts of thin materials, however, are daintily trimmed with "plaits, flounces, ribbons, and insertions. Large leghorns appear to be the most popular shade hats, and they are caught up at the back in flutes, which are generously filled in with flowers, roses, lilacs, clover, coloured tulle, and black velvet being the favourite trimmings for these large hats, though bows of taffeta ribbon in light tints are also "employed for this purpose. Tulle of two colours, puffed all around the crown in front to almost cover the brim, is a very effective decoration on hats of rough straw, while white lace combined with tulle and flowers forms an attractive trimming. It will not much matter this season what the material is so long as it is transparent enough to show the lining through. Embroidered India muffs, chiffon, China crape, or Swiss, made over a brightcoloured lining, with trimming of ribbon to match the colour, make extremely pretty garden-party gowns. Round bodices are decidely the choice of slender women, but many of the waists are made pointed back and front, laced around with crosswise plaits, and fastened at the side or back.

A well-known Dunedin lawyer recently succeeded in acting for both sides in an important suit, and charged £25 aa his fee to the party that didn't win. Now the tinsuccessfnl party, having discovered how he was imposed upon, threatens to bring the case before the Law Society. All the Ladies of Auckland get their Music Books tastefully, neatly, and cheaply bound at Mr Leys', the well-known Book binder of Wyndham-street (two doorß below the Gas office).— Advt. Those who require to use Spectacles will find a very large assortment to suit almost any sight at Miller's Fancy Repository, 110, Victoria-street. Prices in suit any pocket, viz., 6d, 9d 1/- and 1/6 per pair ; Real English Pebbles, 3/9 per pair. Coloured Spectacles for sun and dust, 6d andl/- per pair, sent post free to any address in Mew Zealand. Anyone mentioning this paper when purchasing or sending will have a case value for 6d presented to him. — Advt.