LONDON AND PARIS FASHIONS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 5, 30 January 1892, Page 114

LONDON AND PARIS FASHIONS.

SMART AFTERNOON TOILETTES. ISEE FASHION PI.ATE, PAGE. 117.) No. 1 is a very effective gown, with the back draperies, and the folded epaulettes on either sleeve, in dark brown ottoman silk. The front of the skirt is of fawn bengaline, the same bengaline being also used for the coat bodice, which is very smaitly arranged with long pointed basques, and a softly-draped vest of pale pink crepe de chine. Both skirt and bodice are also trimmed with very effective lines of bis-cuit-coloured guipure lace, brightened here and there with threads of gold. No. 2 is a graceful gown of fawn cloth and silk, the front breadths in the centre of the skirt, and the whole of the back of the skirt being of fawn bengaline. The sides of the petticoat was formed of long panels of fawn cloth, handsomely embroidered with gold, and having large yellow crystals in the centre of each gold design. No. 3is made in quite a novel kind of silk. The foundation colour is pale grey with wide stripes of pale yellow, the said stripes being entirely of tiny yellow spots, set very closely together. The striped grey and yellow silk is draped over a skirt of plain yellow bengaline, the latter being prettily visible here and there. The skirt comes up over the bodice, and is fastened round the waist with a girdle in which the colours grey and yellow are prettily mixed. The vest is of yellow bengaline, the coat sides of the bodice being also lined with yellow to correspond. No. 4 is a useful frock for afternoon wear, made in one of the new pale grey woollen materials, with a woven design, very like a double sharp in music, carried out in a darker shade of grey. Pleats of velvet are placed far back on the side of the skirt, while the trimming in front consists of rosette bows, and smaller pleats of velvet. The bodice is very prettily ai ranged, and is made with wide sleeves of grey velvet to correspond. There are so many pretty materials to choose a summer frock from that selection becomes quite difficult. Amongst the various patterns are the ‘ Wild Rose ’ and the ‘ Egyptian ’; the new * China Blue ’ may be mentioned as a very successful pattern, together with the ‘ Hoop,’ the ‘ Lily Leaf,’ and the ‘Fretwork.’ Among the more expensive patterns, the ‘ Wild Grass ’ is particularly effective, while the selection of French sateens will be found to include a number of beautiful combinations of colour. The silk brocaded zephyrs, with shell designs in silver on grounds in various pale shades, also make up very prettily.