The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-06-19 00:00:00

FASHIONS.

SEVERAL dresses of plain silk, in the favourite tints of lilac,
pearl-grey, and light green, have been. made up during the
past week for promenade costume. These dresseS have the
skirts covered with flounces, or they are made with double
jupes ; and all have the corsage high. The most elegant have
flounces bordered by a ruche of ribbon, and each flounce
covered by a fall of black or white lace. With a dress made
in this last-mentioned style, there may be worn a niantelet of
lace corresponding with that which covers the flounces. The
mantelet should be edged with a very deep fall or flounce of
lace. headed by a ruche of .gauze ribbon of the same colour as
the dress. White bonnets are very generally adopted in a
superior style of out-door costume. They may be made of
French chip, crinoline, crape, blonde, or silk. Many of these
bonnets have a voilette, or fall, sewed at the edge of the brim,
and they are trimmed on the outside with flowers, and in the
inside with blonde, flowers, narrow loops of velvet, bows of
ribbon, &c.
Lilac is a colour very frequently worn by the Empress of
the French. At a flower-show, which took place in Paris a
few days ago, Her Majesty appeared in a dress of lilac silk
chine, with white, and a mantelet of the same. The dress had
three flounces, each trimmed by a broad band. 4 white moire
ribbon, placed just above them ; the niantelet was bor-
dered by white moire ribbon in the same manner as the
flounces, and finished at the edge by a deep fringe of
lilac and white silk. The Empress wore a Leghorn
bonnet, with a bird of Paradise plume, fixed by a bow of
white sarsenet ribbon. On a similar occasion, the Princess
Matilda wore a Leghorn bonnet trimmed on each side
by a tuft, or small plume of white ostrich feathers, tipped with
straw ; the two plumes were connected, the one with the other,.
by a twist of white ribbon and narrow black velvet; loops of
black velvet were here and there intermingled with the
feathers. The under trimming of this bonnet was formed of
bouillounes of blonde. rose-buds, lilies of the valley, in straw
and small bows of black velvet. The strings were of broad
White ribbon, striped with black and straw colour. The
Princess's dress consisted of lilac silk; trimmed with three
deep flounces. These flounces were embroidered with sewing
silk in different shades of lilac upon applicator of black gui-
pure ; the silk was cut away from those parts of the guipure
not covered with the embroidery, and they were thus left
transparent. The corsage was fastened up front by seven
fancy buttons. Over this dress the Princess wore a mantelet
formed of three deep falls of guipure. placed one above the
other, and each separated by a row of small bows of narrow
black ribbon ; flowing ends descending from the bows, drooped
over the falls of guipure to about half their depth.
Several fashionable weddings have lately taken plaCe in
Paris at the Englise de la Madeline. On these occasions, the
ladies invited to be present at the ceremony, for the most part,
appeared in dresses of silk in the various bright colours noiv
in fashion. In general, these dresses were flounced. Some
had the flounces covered with black or white lace; in others,
the flounces were ornamented, either with rich embroidery or
with a pattern woven in the silk. Lace mantelets were very
generally worn. Some, which were composed of application,
or of Aleneon lace were lined with gauze of the same colour
as
the dress bonnets of Irene-1191dt were in the majority. They
were trimmed with feathers or flowers and blonde. SOme
• were trimmed with tufts of marabouts, and others with

flowers.
We may mention here a 'bridal dress composed of white silk ;
the skirt covered by three flounces of Honiton lace. Rows of
lace placed one above the other ornamented the corsage and
sleeves. '1!): vit clr.sisted of I.lonitn lac axcd wrcatli
itv.vers.