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 plush,
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 uniformity, producing anything but an elegant
effect: Plush dresses are intended for visiting toilettes ; for
this purpose also velvet, moire antique, and even satin are
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 are some
most elegant plaid plushes used for both dresses and mantles.
Other patterns which meet with success are, a trefoil
flower of velvet on a moire or poult de sole ground, or imi.
tations of bows or flounces of lace on a light ground.
Poplin, plain, plaid, or stripped, is the at-hoine 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 bine 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 de sole antique, and the new
material, called Lyons cloth, which has the thickness of a
reigning supreme
moire and the suppleness of a foulard, aro worn as morning.
dress.
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bottom of skirts, on bodies, on sleeves, upon the Figaro
used as a Witty re-
served epaulette, the revers, and the pockets. Large ornaments,
or plaques, as our Fiench friends mere expressively term
the
skirtthem ,aanrdeamisaadefaorf
tphoeinptods'tEinsinpnaghnae,stifuonr,atrhheeaptrfirnei
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hang !n
for
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s . andfringes
Chenille
fringeNvit with i s balls,
for the skirt, put on in a variety of styles. Chantill.lllll-
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it,
asntdill'it;e'ierrti
.skirt. It is made also into opera cloaks,
looks exceedingly well over a coloured
shoulders.
utthaniednuelYrppee part of it wadded, just to protect
the
silk or satin
lined, and
and arms from the cold air,
It is said that tar will be fashionable
merely for mantles, but also for dresses—that, indeed,
as a trimming, not
ermine and swan's-down will be w
It will have a rich appearance, though, perhaps, a little
on evening-dresses.
heavy. Upon mantles, instead of
we usually have seen roulea the plain band of fur, as
are considered more elegant, 11X, two, or at the moat four,
are . 1
gent
placed perpendicularly, ior sometimes bends of fur are
mantle; also down the from seven to eleven inches up the
and in front. shoulders, the middle of the back,
Bodies of visiting-dresses are made plain ; points are
generally teem only with more dressy toilettes. Basques
and
more in favour. They are made in,
many different styles
: the old basque seems to be reappear-
ing; some are
made
and with
two points in front ; this is novel and rather be-
coming to stout persons. The little postillion basques meet
with great success ; they are made of passementerie, of
lace, of stamped velvet, and of material like the dress; the
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 bisque is often
made of black velvet with a white moire waistcoat. It can
be made also of blue and green plaid velvet, with a blue,
red, and white, or plain white waistcoat.
this winter.
The corelets will be much worn for full-dress
They are exceedingly churning made in silk, yelvietht ohfrlaingeaht
colour,or even is match the skirt; some areirranad
arcade with
be worn'
but they are rather too juvenile in p
au
Pe
robes are as small
excepting by children. Sleeves of negg
the ehand through ; but
, as ever, just sufficiently large to pass
cut open up to the
, for visiting they are a trifle larger, and

elbow. -
'The bonnets of the present season aro worn moderately
admissible. They are generally, indeed almost always, made
high ;very close at the sides. The Mary Stu tis no longer
lige had the front and curtain of black velvet, with the
with a mixture of materials. Thus a very pretty bonnet for
neg
w i t h andf e rnleav white.es
soft crown of quilted satin—blue or violet ;at the side, a
tuft of black and coloured feathers, fastened by a band of
of velvet ; feathers inside, and satin strings.
Another had the front and curtain of velvet, pine -apple
i
colour, which is just now so fashionable ; the soft
crown of
plaid plush, very short piled, the colours blue
At the side, a bouquet of blue velvet flow ersi,\T
wimtherpolinye-aartnledoetaduouortebdlufeeaxt,heeivne.t,
and
silk, the
ttfollorewnitaoetdpch; those on the outside. Ph.id velvetostbrlicungdse. "r"s
curtain of black velvet,
of
green\ v hiptel atiedr
A third bonnet, with the front and
On the front was it
scarf
a of settbl ue crownand
curtain, and edged with a plaid fringe,' the ends fastened over the
front a bunch of marabout feathers, On the middle of the
surne very light feathers shaded black and white,
blue velvet, mixed With', and some anemones of green and
the blonde cap.
One of the newest head-dresses
white feather, twisted was formed with a single
high up; a small aili, placed at the side of the head, very
em, or rather band, of blue velvet
the forehead, '
the ending in a large bow of white tulle,
ends fallinc,
over the shoulders. In the middle of'the
bandeau, a butterfly, made of
mother-ot'-pearl, shone bril-
liantly,
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