LONDON AND PARIS FASHIONS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 22, 3 June 1893, Page 526

LONDON AND PARIS FASHIONS.

THE NEWEST EVENINC ORESSES. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PAGE 525. The illustrations this week are verv tasteful, which is more than can be said for all the newest evening dresses. The first is a party dress for a girl. It is made in lemon satin surah. The short skirt is edged with a double frill, and a trimming of ombre-green velvet, and bright green moir6 ribbon, enriched with iridescent green sequins, spangles, and baby ribbon. The bodice has an ombre-greet* and black velvet corselet, edged with sequins, and a broad sash of the lemon satin with a pouf bow. A similar bow in velvet finishes the waist behind. Full chemisette of ivory crepe de Chine, with band of sequins round the throat. The sleeves have upper poufs of velvet, with lemon close-fitting cuffs bordered to match the skirt. Chiffon ruffles, edged with sequins. No 2, child’s evening frock, with straight sides and Watteau back of chartreuse-green crepon. Full front of deep cream Bengaline tucked across the chest. Square collar of Bengaline, edged with deep frills of guipure, and sleeves to match.

No. 3, young lady’s dancing dress in pale blue mignonne silk with a pin spot. Skirt, with narrow silk frill and deep flounce of silk lace and lace insertion, festooned with bows of ribbon. Full bodice with Swiss belt of ribbon, with five little bows drawn through a paste buckle. Round the neck rich frills of Brussels lace, and ribbon bows on the shoulders. Full elbow sleeves.

No. 4, evening dress in semi-Empire style. The under part of pale pink silk is close fitting, Princess shape, with full yoke of pale blue velvet, confined under the bust with narrow velvet band, edged with tinsel braid. From this falls an Empire overdress of transparent ecru reticella net, oordered with guipure, and edged with narrow blue velvet and tinsel. Large Empire sleeves of pink silk, covered with net, and enriched with ruffles of guipure, and bows of pale blue velvet, edged with gold. This dress would also look remarkably well in black net over gold satin. The lace should be black, with the design outlined in gold thread. A very lovely and elaborate trousseau has been prepared for the private wedding of Josephine, Baroness Kbingswaiten. The young lady is marrying without her father’s consent, but by the Vienna law, he is obliged to provide for her according to his rank and means, and give her an outfit in proportion. He is immensely rich, and this is part of the trousseau. Picture to yourselves, fair readers, twelve dozen chemises of the finest linen and Brussels lace, all embroidered after they are made up—by hand, of course—for there is not a single machine stitch in the whole outfit. Nearly a hundred petticoats, flannel, batiste, muslin, and .silk, each differently worked and differently trimmed, with j ackets to match half of them ; bed linen embroidered to the depth of a yard, with monograms so finely and clearly worked that the enameller could not do them with more exactness. The pocket-handkerchiefs are a separate work of art each—some with tiny bunches of lilies, or lilies of the valley, worked in colours—or inserted and edged with lace, the embroidery so fine that it should be viewed with a magnifying glass. There are about twenty toilettes, all in a noble, simple style, seldom in more than one colour, and if in two, most harmoniously blended. Heloise.