THE LADIES’ COLUMN.

Western Star, Issue 1389, 14 September 1889, Page 1

THE LADIES’ COLUMN.

JOTTINGS FROM DUNEDIN. ' . With the beautiful spring weather we are enjoying, it is no wonder that the shops are gay with the new summer finery. lu dress materials, terracotta, shrimp pink, green, and greys'of all shades, appear ’to be the most fashionable, while nearly all of thorn have wide borders, embroidered, in silks of. the Sam 6 or a contrasting colour. , In ■ jackets, those fastening with one button, and having watered silk, revert, bid fair, ,t,o heuomo the most popular ; and with these are worn loose blousd fronts of liberty silk, or, as the latest has it, starched coloured shirts or .waistcoats in exact irhitation of men As to the.hats.and bonnets, a complete change has been effected since last year. Instead of the,high crowned hate, we have them broad-brimmed and rc< murk ably flat, some, indeed, having no crown at all. The trimming, however, is piled rather high, so that the extreme flatness -is not so very noticeable, save in some. “ Husband ! beaters ” have almost entirely disappeared, laud some of the parasols have now handles I like smallclubs, very short. The Bland Holt Dramatic Company, have been enjoying a most suucesatnl season, ■ thy j“ Union Jack,” and “The Ruling Passion,’’ (proving both, excellent sensational dramas, (beautifully dressed aud ; mounted, and splendidly acted Indeed the Company haapvoved oue of the best if .net the best, that has visited .Dunedin for, some long time back.: 'The |dreaaos worn by the lady members of'the have beeu remarkable for their richpess and beauty,jthis being especially uoticc’’abio in “The, Ruling Passion,’*- when > ail ’seemed to vie with ouo another in the mag’niticenpoof their costumes. Mrs Eland.Holts’ dresses wore, ,1 think, the most i admired, owing, no doubt, to their simplicity as well as their richness. Oue, in. which she looked very graceful and pretty, was of dark hue velvet, the whole front of the dross, being of cVcam liberty silk, caught at the throat with a, cascade of beautiful laccfusteueii with diamond 'mooches, and at therwaist wjcli large ornament. Anoihnrgowu, of amber satin brocaded vviill large flowers in black velvet,abd.rhaving a front of itmbei\;saptu, was worn by. .Miss JJqorwyn, and was very striidog. a«d< Udautiful. ' J v , ! •. . . ! Last Wednesday evening a most enjoyable conceit was given in the Oity Hail, at which all our best singers assisted. The ’lady vocalists—Mesdomes - Rose, 'A.ngas - and Murphy and Miss Wooldridge.— !■; 11 sang their songs delightfully. Mrs Murphy wore ‘a very pretty-dress,of■ pale blue silk trimmed with gold passementerie, the underskirt.being bordered with gold- Miss W.ooldri.tga- Wore a cream coloured -costume ..with, one of ,tha very fashionable moire sashes benved'at/tha back. ; ,'flho. other two ladies .were both, altiio lin black... • . —. >

Tbo favourite Sunday promenade is;"now the Exhibition Building, which aro-rdi rouged wild isight jseers .(ivory Sariday afluruoiiu. The gardens, inside the building, nouviik standing,the short lime they have KCoU.iii.iile, look very pretty, tliu grass, being bi ijutifully green anil the shrubs thriving spk-aidiUiy, As no house large euoueh for the Governor is available, .the .jdraud i’aoiiio Hotel at, the Ocean Beach has been routed, arid is getting prepared for his advent. Last night what was advertised as a complimentary concert, to Mr W'ootou (late manager of the Oily Hall Skating Biiik) . was given in the City Hall and proved a dismal failure. About a score or so of persons(mostly “ dead heads”) constituted tho audience', while what the vocalists were doing one could hardly -say, as they were most inaudible. A hornpipe competition for a handsome medal aud was won by Mr Bdls after (as one of our Icval papers has it) akoeu competition with himself. Let us draw a veil over the rest of the proceedings, the re teeming feature of which was tho playing of tho Ca.orshaiu Brass Baud. . M illA.