MISCELLANEOUS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 28, 12 July 1890, Page 15

MISCELLANEOUS.

Admirers of the conspicuous and original will be interested in the fad now prevalent of dressing from head to foot in the tint of one’s own hair. The peculiar shade of chestnutbrown hair and the fair Patti red are now reproduced in the plain and rough cloths of which ulster, jacket, paletot and gown are made. The daughter of Martin Tupper has been awarded a Civil List pension of £75 a year. Surely this is mote marvellous than even the father’s wonderful ‘Proverbial Philosophy.’ There is, they say, going to lie a cure for that terrible disease, cancer. It is more common amongst women than amongst men, so the ladies will rejoice to hear that a clever young doctor has invented a machine which will cure it by electricity. U.K. 11. the Princess of Wales has some handsome dresses in course of completion. < >ne, a home dress of biscuit-cloth, edged with gold galon, embroidered with tiny roses, opens over a front of pale blue China crape, gracefully draped and folded a the neck. The elbow sleeves are formed of double vouillonnes of ertpe at the shoulder, and braceletted with the embroidered gold trimming. The sleeves terminate < » sabot. The Princess has also ordered a long Russian pelisse of black velvet, with trimming of sable fur and sixteenth century sleeves, very full ami broad, and a ‘Casaque Francois I.’ of finely-ribbed pansy velvet, having full sleeve* and a quaint cape outlined with line gold embroidery and zibeline fur. A high Eitlel collar, lined with fur and embroidered on the outside with rays of gold and black embroidery, completes this original and costly garment.