FASHION NOTES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 43, 25 October 1890, Page 14

FASHION NOTES.

The flower bonnets and hats are seen about in profusion now that a few days of exceptionally fine and warm weather has made us feel that spring is really with us, although the brighter spring things will not be worn in all their gayness until later on. But one great mistake that is very frequently made, even by some people who ought to know better, is that of wearing a flower hat or bonnet with the remainder of the person clothed .in furs. Nothing can be more incongruous and in worse taqte than to mix up winter and summer in this way.

Plain cloth or cashmere gowns a]e being made with high, full sleeves of richly brocaded silk) either of a contrasting colour or with the brocaded design only of a contrasting colour. These gowns are usually niade in Princess shape. Indeed the skirts are all exceedingly plain, and only the least atom of draping allowed for stout figures—all the fussiness and trimming being reserved for the bodice, in the style of which almost any vagary is allowed. The consequence is, that these verv plain skirts have to be exceedingly well made, or else the whole effect is demode in the extreme. Numerous gores over the hips are required to make them hang perfectly straight and plain, and, as a rule, inferior dressmakers either do not take the trouble to find out how it is done, or else they blindly adhere to the orthodox fashion of making a skirt with the orthodox number of gores, regardless of passing fashions, or the style of figure of the wearer, whereas thoroughly good dressmakers boldly adapt the means to the end, and produce a certain effect, no matter how.