LONDON AND PARIS FASHIONS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 35, 30 August 1890, Page 14

LONDON AND PARIS FASHIONS.

LATEST PARIS COWHS. The sketches which M. Mars has made for us this week re] .resent some of the newest and smartest gowns to be seen at the present moment in Paris. The first is a pretty travelling dress (A) in steel-grey faille, bordered with white galons, and trimmed with white embroidered designs. The bonnet is in green velvet, leaving the hair visible on the top. In the next sketch (B) you see a nice *at home ’ gow*n in navy-blue wool, trimmed with surah galons in leather and cherry red squares, cut as designed. A charming outdoor coat (C) was seen at the Bois, made entirely in thick, long-haired pale cachou woollen stuff, trimmed with sleeves and revers in chestnut boucle. The bonnet is arranged to match. In figure D we find a capital idea for a fancy ball —a novel travelling dress. The wearer could call herself * Millie. Lender.’ It is made in chaudron and green Scotch tartan surah, with short sleeves. The ceinture and collar, as well as the under petticoat, are in plain chaudron faille. The hat is arranged to correspond. Mdlle. Jeanne May in * Lne Perle’ at the Renaissance Theatre wears in the second act a successful dress (E)in pale brick-coloured bengaline, trimmed with darker embroideries and velvet applique designs. The jabot is of white crepe lisse. Mdlle. Jane May, in the first act of the same piece, wears a dress in white satin proche, with a front part of crepe de chine, trimmed with silver and silk Greek designs. The front part of the bodice is covered with silk gauze. This would make a pretty evening dress.