The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-01 00:00:00

FASHIONS.FOR JUNE.

Although the robe fourreau and the short CO3-
thine appear to be the styles, par excellence, of the
present season, they arc made with such various mo-
difications that perhaps it will not be difficult to
adapt them to most tastes. For example the short
dresses are made in all possible styles. Short skirt
over one to match, or of a contrasting colour ;
skirt caught up by bows or rosettes; skirt
plaited up square at the sides ; tunic
rounded and short in front, open at the sides, and
longer and square at the back ; long skirt, but so
caught up as to appear tied ; skirt tied up at the back
and sides ; in brief, skirts drawn up to various
heights and in various ways, or short, open, &c.
The paletot matching the dress is very generally
worn with these dresses. Some of the prettiest of
these costumes are made of black taffetas, the bot-
tom trimmed round with a double bias of green,
blue, or violet ; the under skirt having two or three
narrow flounces, and the short black paletot with a
bias of piping to match. The " Greek" and "Jewess"
sleeves are coming more and more in favour ;
they are more especially suitable for dresses of a
rich material. The " Greek" sleeve is open
quite to the top of the arm. and cut square.
The " Jewess" is a wide open sleeve, but
made round, and slightly pointed. They are both
made very long. To the robe' fourreau, with
its long train, tunics are sometimes added, or the
front of the dress is made of a different colour to
the other part of the robe, forming a tablier or plas-
tron ; in the latter the trimming is generally placed
on the body in the form of a Spanish vest, round in
front and quite short at the back. Blue, maize, and
bouton (for are, perhaps, the favourite colours just
now, but many dresses are of a blue-grey or a pearl-
grey. Embroidery- of silk and beads is very much
used as a trimming ; also plaits of silk, either match-
ing the dress or of a different shade ;. but nothing
is more in vogue as a trimming than satin. Long
sashes, well as the
peplum
The newest bonnets are very small fanchons or
she tiede eio btrechion of jet.
jot.
are
much worn, as
oval-shaped rounded at the back, the part resting
on the chignon trimmed with lace or beads and
delicate sprays of flowor ; but, without doubt, the
ni e
is thann o thes Uff
dillictulty so tovery small bonnets require more skill in the arrange-
mentmall
oorftltylole
ago,ritn a trimming
it
place the flowers, feathers, or ribbons (and, in some
cases, all three of these) on so .s•nall a foundation
without overcrowding it, and so giving the appear-
ance of heaviness ; however, this i 3 an art which
many of our modistes have attained, the proof of
which we have in wily elegant and becoming
coiffures.—Lc

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

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(By Electric Telegraph.)
GRAVI:SLND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, May 31.—Love Bird, from Port Alrred, Cape
of Good Hop; Or!ent, from St. Lucia; Agamemnon, from
Shanghai ; from Minititlan ; Fulton, steamer, fro-n
Dunkirk.
Arrived, June I.—Florence, stoimer, and Moselle,
Concordia,steamer,
steruww, and Triton,
steamer,steamer,
Boulogne;
ue
Faller,
from Bremen;
Belgium, steamer, ;rum Ostend.
DEAL, ,Saturday
Morning.

Passed, May 31.--Nant'y Glo, of London, from the west.
for London ; Assur, for liusbire ; The Gy,lwa, for Aa4-
laide —both from London; -Marione Marino, boric, from
Shields, for Genoa.