LONDON AND PARIS FASHIONS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VII, Issue 10, 7 March 1891, Page 15

LONDON AND PARIS FASHIONS.

PARIS NOTES. It is difficult to get anything light, airy, yet fashionable for head gear for those of us who have begun to feel that some sort of cap will better suit our years than rolls of bought hair, crimpled fringes, waved fronts, and so on. To my mind, no one looks so sweet and loveable as an old lady wearing her own soft white or grey hair, surmounted by a becoming cap. Therefore 1 was very pleased when in one of our most chic magazins I was shown the very fascinating cap which 1 have sketched for you. ‘ C’est cbarmante,’ said the demoiselle who expatiated on its various beauties, and I hope my fair readers across the sea will endorse her opinion. Quant a moi; well, the fact that I have reproduced it shows what I think of it. The component part is the very pretty ami delicate-looking chiffon that is used so much this year for all kinds of dainty rnfHes, jabots, etc., and makes up into

charming caps for elderly ladies lieing so extremely soft and becoming, besides keeping well in order for along time, with ordinary care. A successful way of building a head dress with this fabric is shown in my sketch as follows Make a small oblong foundation of stiff white net, about half an inch deep (with a wire run through to keep in place, then froufrou your chiffon fully on arranging, so as to form a Stuart shape in front, and when brought to the back on either side, spread upwards, and then pin to the hair, and frou-frou again down each side, which forms a becoming furnishing to the face when the hair is not very luxuriant. For colour a very ptetty combination is cream chiffon edged with bronze beads, and a small humming bird perched among the folds ; very pale grey, edged with steel beads, and a dark green bird ; or plain white, with black-beaded edge (if an edge of any kind is preferred to a plain one), with a dark red velvet knot of ribbons, all make up prettily.

Heloise.