LONDON AND PARIS FASHIONS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXI, Issue XXVII, 31 December 1898, Page 865

LONDON AND PARIS FASHIONS.

The first sketch illustrates a dress of drab linen, The upper part of the skirt is made in the fourreau style, the fulness only developing below the hips into very pronounced hollow pleats. The front is made with a seam down the centre, by which it is made to fit perfectly. The skirt is trimmed with three bands of blue and white striped linen on the cross, ‘en sautoir,’ and at equal distances, being lower in front than at the back and sides, and edged with several rows of stitching. The corsage is a jacket of the same linen. The back is made to fit by seams in the back and

taken in at the sides aud front. The basque is short and rounded. The jacket fastens down in front with four engraved |iearl buttons, aud is trimmed with striped blue and white linen like the skirt, with rows of stitching along the edge. The opening of the jacket is moderately high, and the lapels, which are nieked. are rather small and faced with striped linen, as

is also the collar. The chemisette is of white cambric, surmounted by a white linen turndown collar, beneath which passes a white cambric cravat tied in a small bow. The sleeves, which are tailor-made, are trimmed with striped linen and stitching, like the rest of the costume. The costume is completed by a white straw boating hat, with moderately wide brim, the crown trimmed with a band of broad blue ribbon. In the centre in front is a large bow of the same ribbon composed of five loops. On the right side is a fancy drab feather, spotted with white, which droops over backward.

The 2nd sketch is a double-breast-ed eoat, cut in the newest style, of dark blue cloth, with facings of cream braid.

Tucks are exceedingly fashionable, and my third sketch shows a bright muslin blouse arranged in this manner. A zigzag pattern composed of tiny tucks is prettily placed across the front. and finishes off the sleeve below the puff, which is made of the tucks opened out. The rest of the sleeve and blouse are plain. A silk neck band and sash contph te this dainty blouse.

SASHES FOR WASHING DRESSES. Chic and elegant are the new sashes which are used with this season's washing gowns. They are sometimes of broad, soft ribbon, adorned with little frills of lace, mousseline de soie. or chiffon, arranged in bands across each end of the streamers. or are finished around the entire edges quite up to tin- waist, bill simpler effects are decidedly more effective with a thin material. Liwn. dimity, organdie, or those exquisite flowered silk muslins have sashes of the same material, sparingly trimmed with scant little ruffles of Valenciennes or point du Paris edging. Sometimes the ends are gathered up to the waist in a series of tiny plaitings: sometimes these pleatings extend, accordion-wise, full length, in which case, of course, the strip must be much wider, but the usual width is

from eight to twelve inches. There is no regular loop bow. The ends drop from lienenth a double rosette, one rosette or from a fan pleated in two sections, each piece as wide as the k sash and only about six inches long. The effect is very light, and is particularly pleasing in thin lawn. Ptiris iniisliii. or organdie. The front of the sash is usually laid in small pleats.

and the belt does not exceed two or three inches; if wider it is pulled up in a pointed girdle anti trimmed with lace or insertion.

Here life a feu millinery ideas: A sailor hut in biscuit colour will be found especially suitable for cycling. This hat is trimmed very prettily with cart-wheel bows of blue glaee silk, surmounted by shaded quills, and having brilliant ornaments in the centre of each.

A very novel hat is that which is made in dark violet straw and trimmed with a single ostrich feather, set quite upright and secured to the crown by a small jewelled slide. All round the brim there are small bunches of purple and lilac shaded polyanthus. the same Howers l»eing also placed under the brim at the back. A pretty hat. which is arranged with tucks of chiffon l>etween each plait of straw, is made in palest turquoise blue and trimmed very smartly in front with a large straw rosette caught in the centre by a diamond tortoise. High at the back there are clusters of black ostrich feathers, and underneath the brim a big l>ow of blue chiffon, with a second tortoise ornament. H ELOISE.