The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-30 00:00:00

FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER.

(From Le Follet.)
Amongst the materials in favour this winter, plush wil
decidedly hold a high place; not the old fashioned
but one with a shorter pile. It is used for bonnets and also
for dresses, so that any one may have a whole toilette to
match. We do not, however, advise our readers to adopt
this fashion, for the only result arrived at is one of a mo-
notonous uuiformity, producing anything but an elegant
effect. Plush dresses are intended for visiting toilettes ; for

ehis purpose also velvet, moire antique, and even satin are
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worn. In pale shades they are most suitable for dinner or
soiree dress. They should be low-bodied, either with or
without a fichu or veste of lace. The colours preferred for

day are green and blue plaid, violet, and all shades of brown.

It is no doubt true that plaid will soon become very com-

mon, being made in such cheap materials that some of the
most fastidious ladies of fashion already discard it, but it is

none the less a fact that at present it is extremely in vogue.
Mexico blue and green are also worn, but not much. Small
checks are generally preferred for plaid. There aro some
most elegant plaid plushes used for both dresses and mantles.
Other patterns which meet with success are, a trefoil
teams of bows or flounces of lace on a light ground.
Poplin, plain, plaid, or stripped, is the at-home dress for
the season. The Pompadour silks are quite the thing for
evening dress. Stripes, alternately silk and satin, some-
times wide, sometimes narrow, but always sprinkled over
with small flowers, forming either wreaths or bouquets, are
those most approved of. These are not only made in pale
shades; but, while we may find the blue or pink suitable
for young ladies, we can also find some very handsome
grenat, green or violet, with white flowers, only admissible
for older ladies. Black poult d sole antique, and the new
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dress.
Passementerie is still, we may say, reigning supreme
amongst trimmings. It is put upon all tlae seams, at the
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pockets.sleeves,
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10rnaments,
or plaques, as our French friends more expressively term
'and also for the postillion basque, but aiguillett e,
skirtthem are made of point d'Espagne
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made of it, and it cer-
tainly buttons, and fringes with balls, are principally
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served for vestes. Chenille fringe is used as a trimming
for the skirt, put on in a variety of styles. Chantilly
antill) lace
cloaks, lined, and
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elegant, or sometimes bands of fur are
placed perpendicularly,
the shoulders, the middle of the back,
and in front.

Bodies of visiting-dresses
generally. Worn
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getting more and more
lace, l h favour. They are made in
and •
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coming tostout front ; this is novel and rather be-
w.t. g persons. The little postillion barques meet
this is
behind, up on the hips,
velvet, etth, the are
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front, a small waistcoat of taffetas, or moire, of a colour
suiting the dress, and trimmed with hanging buttons of
gold, passementerie, or even sequins. The basque is often
made of black velvet with a white moire waistcoat
.blue,
a it can
be made also of blue and green plaid velvet, with
red, and white, or plain white waistcoat.
The eorslets will be much worn for full-dress this winter.
They are exceedingly charming made in silk, velvet of light
colour,or even to match the skirt; some are made with braces,
but they are rather too juvenile in appearance to be Worn
excepting by children. Sleeves of neglige robes ale as small
as ever, just sufficiently large to pass the hand through ; but
for visiting they are a trifle larger, and cut open up to the

elbow.
The Mary Stuart is no longer
season are worn moderately
eh)" 'ate,: generally, indeed ahnost always, made
admissible. y
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of materials. Thus a vsry pretty bonnet for
with a mixture o
and curtain of black velvet, with the
, had the front
neghee • d satin—blue or violet; at the side, a
soft crown of quilted
and coloured feathers, fastened by a band of
high; Th e
vbeornyn bonnets of the
hpe resent .
tuft of black
of velvet; feathers inside,
satin s and trings.
Another had the front and curtain of velvet, pine-apple
colour, w
hie}, is just now so fashionable ; the eat crown of
plaid plush, very short piled, the colours blue and white.
:At the side, a bouquet of blue velvet newel's, with fun leaves
formed with pine-apple coloured feather:, Nu blonde across
the top ; merely a bandeau of blue velvet, and fern leaves
to match those on the outside. plaid velvet strings.
A third bonnet, with the front and curtain of black velvet,
had a soft crown of white terry velvet. Oa the front was a
scarf of blue and g i een plaid silk, the ends fastened over the
curtain, and edged with a plaid fringe. On the middle of the
front a bunch of marabout feathers, shaded black and white,
same very light feathers, and some anemones of green and
blue velvet, mixes with the blonde cap.
One of the newest head-dresses was formed with a single
white feather, twisted, placed at the side of the head, verye
high up; a small diadem, or rather band, of blue vel
vt
across the forehead, ending in a large bow of white tulle,of,
the ends falling over the shoulders, In the middle _ the
bandeau, a but:wily, made of mother-of-pearl, ettlelle bc.
lieutly,