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FASHIONS AND FANCIES.
UNBECOMINO ADENTIATED SKIRTS Unusually early this year is informa tion given about the forthcoming fashions, and rather startling some of it is. We are told that the smart walking skirt is to be ten inches away from the ground. This can scarely be said to be a becoming length except in conjunction with the full skirla, neat foot-gear, and perfect ankles of the soubrette on the French stage. Combined with the clinging gown of the momab, a skirt of the above length will be more crippling than ever, and far from becoming. However, we must dree our weird, and go whither the French couturier bida us.
FASHIONS IN FOOTGEAR, The very short skirt means something special in stockings, and something very up-to-date in shoes. Some prophets as sure us that orange stockings and black shoes will be a "note" in the forthcom ing modes, and that we may expect hose in arsenie-green and the most vivid of blues. The chances are, however, that stockings will still remain black, brown, or otherwise dark in tint, with embroi- dery in these bright colours. Shoes will certainly be varied in colour, and, in fact, a new era opens in footwear, and one that will be very profitable to shee makers. Of this subject we have dis
the eccentris ostrich feather or a tall skeleton peacock feather, sometimes fastened with too large an Egyptian beatles which seems to dall the soft and beautiful tints of the brocade. Coloured scarves are very much worn, more or less matching these hats. They are to be had in gaure and other soft materials, but the well-dressed Parisienne has B blouse made of such a scarf, instead of wearing it loosely over her shoulders, ene woman in Д realising that only couple of hundred can really wear a scarf properly.
LATEST IN VEILS.
The very no black laco veils that have been worn during the last two seasona' are. now regarded as comparatively coarse and heavy compared with the exquisitely fine veilings of the present moment, The now shadow lace is regarded as having been responsible for those wonderfully delicate and extremely becoming effects. Instead of the thickly embroidered but terflies and other designs not always suit able, there are now the most dainty patterns carried out on the exquisitely line net, and she who cannot find a becom- zag veil among the quantities offered to the public may be regarded as a hope leasty discontented human being-X and Z in the Globe.
coursed in a recent Thursday's Globe, of CHINESE DRILLED PEARLS. the advent of brocade, embroidered doth and striped velvet, or velveteen, as foot- wear. In a few weeks there will be an additional. list of unaccustomed materials in the domain of the shoemaker.
AT THE OPERA
Some wonderful heads are to be son at the Opera House, where the audiences are as fashionable as if it were the height of the London season. There appears to be much competition in directing the feather into original position. The more eccentric this the better pleased is the wearer, and the more bitterly is she re- sonted by those sitting behind her. It is astounding that a plume measuring some six inches high by an inch and a-half across could possibly manage to conceal so much of the stage from the persona sitting behind this often ludicrous adorn ment. The feather that is placed at right argles with the hend is the very worst offender. Without it one might occa sionally catch glimpses of what is going on between the heads of the two persons seated in front. The rectangular feather prevents this last resource of the worried opera-goer. No consideration whatever is paid to the convenience of those sitting behind, and if women were as selfish in their homes as they are at the play or in the Opera House, it would be a very tragic thing.JE NAS
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CURIOUS STORY OF A £2,000 NECKLACE.
PEARL BROKEN'S SUICIDE. N
An action relative to a necklace of} Chinese drilled pearls, said to be valued at £2,000, was decided by Mr. Justice Bray in the King's Bench Division.
The plaintiffs, a firm carrying on busi-, mess in Paris under the style of B. J.; Javeri and Co. as dealers in pearls, sap- phires, and emeralds, proceeded against Mr. T. M. Sutton, pawnbroker, Victoria, street, Westminster, to recover the neck- lace under curious circumstances.
In February last plaintiffs received From Bombay a parcel of eighty-four Chinese drilled pearls with a view to their being sold, and they said that on August 10 a pearl broker in Paris named Amin asked for permission to take the pearls to a customer for the purpose of obtaining an! offer, and they accordingly handed bim the pearls on the understanding that he would bring them back in the space of about two or three hours.
They alleged that Amin made a neck- lace with forty-eight or forty-nine of the pearls, and pledged it with defendant for £1,200 through a Mr. Mikal, a Paris mer chant.
Amin, after making certain statements in regard to the pearls, committed suicide. The plaintiffs said that us the pearls were got from them by a trick they were legally entitled to recover possession,
The defendant contended that Amin was mercantile agent, that the necklace was taken from Amin in pledge bona fide, and without knowledge that he had obtained it improperly, and that plaintiffs could not, therefore, recover possession.
The band round the hair comes lower and lower upon the forehead, and if it continues in this mistaken course it will soon assume the appearance of a bandage surgically applied. The art of placing the band at present consists in drawing down a few locks of hair, turning the ends upwards an that they may assume the form of curla, and then placing the band over them, leaving just the loops of hair visible underneath. Sometimes, ona.
His Lordship held that plaintiffs were young and pretty girl, this has a rather entitled in the circumstance to recover pleasing effect; but unfortunately youth possession, and he gave judgment accord- and beauty are exceptional, andingly in their favour with costs. grotesque effcots are often seen where the aim had been the picturesque. The fancy for sequin bair ornamente seems to be diminishing This is a step in the right direction, for sequins are cheap and always have the air of pretending to be something better. than they really are." Some little heads are to be seen with the hair wound closely round showing the shape and most of these are entirely without ornament of any kind. Perhaps a diamond band may be added, just where the hair ends on the forehead.
In one instance this band was partially con cealed by the hair at the sides being ar- ranged over a portion of it.
BOTANICAL AND ZOOLOGICAL
Last summer trimmings made of cork wore applied to a few fashionable hats. and were found to be so light and Bo decorative that we may expect & number of hats to be wearing these trimmings in a few weeks. It is not the first time that an apparently unsuitable material has been used on headgear. Glass has long been used in the form of grapes and other berries, particularly currants, when they were so much in fashion a couple of seasons since, in their natural colours, red, cream, and black, Seaweed had its day as a hat trimming, and a very charm- ing one, but was too fragile to retain this position long. We are prepared to accept an outbreak of young vegetables on spring hats-minute turnips, small car rots in their vivid orange, and the tiniest cauliflowers arranged upon a mount, and looking exactly like guolder roses.
DRESS ON THE STAGE
In the successful new play at the Strand Theatre Miss Ethel Irving wears gowns of the smartest, illustrating the very top note of the present fashion. One of them is in blue charmeuse, draped with chiffon in a particularly graceful fashion, the soft material beginning in two points at the waist, and looped upon the bips, afterwards carried high above the waist at the back, che folds in this way falling naturally in a series of panzerlike curves. The train is square in this instance, & great improvement upon the too fashion- able little pointed train, or the double- pointed fishtail. Very interesting to the feminine portion of the audience is thir clever actress" smart tailor-made of ashes-of-roses charmeuse, the skirt looped up at the sides, and showing an onder- skirt of china-blue boned with sable. The small hat, swathed with gold lace, is finished with brown and black plumage. Mach adinired is a negligé in wild-ross chiffon and lace, with a high military belt of black velvet caught into an immenso gold buckle and fringed with gold. Over this is a long simulated coat in a deep tone of pink, patterned with gold and silver flowers, and finished with a zouave of heavy gold lace.
HATS AND THEIR TEMMINGS.. Small hats are undoubtedly the right thing for all but ceremonious wear.. They should be made in dull Oriental broades, having threads of tarnished gold, or, if one can afford it, any real old Venetian. brocade that left the loom not less than 150 years ago. Very little trimming, of course, is required for bats and toques of this kind. Mostly they have nothing bat
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