LONDON AND PARIS FASHIONS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 11, 12 March 1892, Page 258

LONDON AND PARIS FASHIONS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) (SEE FASHION PLATE, PAGE 261.) There were so many stylish gowns worn at the autumn Dublin Horse Show, that I am sending you a few sketches from which you can gain some ideas for your own autumn frocks, mantles, and hats. Her Excellency the Countess of Zetland wore a gown of vivid pea-green Irish poplin, with a deep festooned flounce, lined and turned back with white satin, and caught up with green and white bows ; a long * bell-pull ’ sash at the side, soft white silk vest, and bands of handsome silver embroidery trimming the bodice, and carried around the hem of the skirt. Long mousquetaire cuffs of white satin, embroidered handsomely with silver, and bonnet composed entirely of lily-of-the-valley, mingled with grass and foliage. She wore, on arriving, a most becoming mantle of fawn camel’s-hair cloth, made with a yoke, stylishly braided in gold stiipes, and trimmed down the fronts with lynx fur. Her Excellency’s daughter, Lady Hilda Dundas, displayed a costume of navy-blue cloth, with diagonal revers, caught across the waist with a buckle, over a pretty pale pink vest. Her hat was the large, Hat-crowned, crush-leaf shape which the Duchess of Leinster affects, and was set far back from her forehead, and ornamented with ostrich plumes. The Lady Mayoress: Heliotrope crepon dress; skirt lifted at one side, over a jupon of plain heliotrope cloth ; bodice ‘ built up ’ with soft folds of silk about the waist; sleeves much puffed and rolled ; short puffing of material around the outer edge of the waist-line ; handsome embroidery on collar, cuffs, and skirt hem ; black chip hat, raised high at one side, with mauve and feather trimmings ; collarette of soft grey and white ostrich, worn close around the throat. Mrs Loftus Steele, extremely stylish gown of vieux rose crepon, with Hounce of deep French lace, beaded with mitred jet; bodice crossed with lace, outlined with jet passementerie ; long falls of lace from the shoulders, and full blouse of same in front; deep fringe of cut jet falling from the waist-point, met at hips by long bodice-tabs, bordered with jet ; bonnet of black crinoline, trimmed vieux rose velvet and jet. Mrs < (’Carroll, dark hussar-blue crepe cloth, ornamented very handsomely with cut jet and lace, cuirass and collar of rich jet-work, hat to correspond ; Miss Edith Wynne, lovely dress of ivory-white Indian silk, trimmed with silk lace and ribbons, flounce of lace around skirt and basque, black chiffon hat, with pale pink roses ; Lady Eva Fitzgerald, black cloth costume, with stylish tabbed skirtand double-breasted bodice, braided handsomely with grey cord ; Hon. Mrs Dewhurst, gown of gendarme- blue cloth, with double-breasted Eton jacket, made with tails at the back ; white cloth waistcoat, and hat en suite ; Miss Morris Reade, white crepon toilette, outlined with silver cord, deep jacket revers of white silk, white felt hat to correspond ; Mrs O’Neill, navy blue costume, with vest of pale azure silk ; Miss Kennedy (Glen-na-Geragh), ivory serge-cloth costume, with ruby-velvet enrichments, jacket in ‘cavalier’ style, with ruby silk cordings, and cavalier hat; Miss O’Brien, an exceedingly pretty dress of very narrow striped silk—black, or dark grey, and white, with a graduated pleated fall of the material at one side of the skirt, bordered with narrow black blonde ; a pleated flounce, similarly edged, and a deep depending neck-kilting to correspond. The back of the bodice was crossed with black watered ribbons, which were carried also around the pointed waist, and tied in a long bow in front.