The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-02 00:00:00

FASHIONS FOR MAY.

(From the " London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.")
Very elegant materials are in use for evening dress,
brocarts with large patterns in orange colour, having by
candlelight the effect of gold ; others are of black grounds,
with wreaths of roses or mixed flowers of showy colours,
(irides satins and gauzes sprigged in stars of gold, or silk
reps, broches, &c. Sky blue and violet are the prevailing
colours ; pale blue for young ladies, and deep violet for
the more advanced, which latter colour is also much used
for high dresses and for mantelets and pelerines, harmo-
nizing in colour with the dress for these toilettes ; black
lace is well suited ; foulards and bareges again constitute
the most elegant negliges ; we have also toiles de laine
glaces and embroidered, new popelines and checked taffe-
tas ; the last are in small checks in which white prevails,
and are adapted for young ladies. Many of the spring re-
dingotes are ornamented with buttons, others with biais,.
edged with fringe or deep flounces festonnes, pinked or
simply hemmed ; corsages less high will be fashionable,
but will still have to contend with the Puritan form •
two styles of low bodies are spoken ; those a la Grecque,
with guimpe and tassels, are open, showing the chemi-
sette ; corsages made of lace are spoken of; there is no
particular change in the sleeves ; for dinner dresses the
trimmings are mostly en tablier. In ball dresses the dou-
ble and treble skirt are always worn.
The mantilles, mantelets, demi-pelisses, little paletots,
are all made this season of plain or glace taffetas, the
trimmings generally of frills, pinked in two or three rows
at the back, two of which terminate at the arm, falling as
a sleeve on the nand ; the third is continued round the
ends, which are either round or pointed. The newest
style is the mantillon, and is small in form, resembling
the mantelet in shape without the ends ; the pardessus
Milanais is of taffetas d'ltalie glace, with triple border of
lace. The new bonnets are round in form, and jockey
crowns continue in favour. Some bonnets are of a more
open form, and these require more ornament inside. Some
are made entirely of ribbon, others of mohair and straw,
and of gimp and straw ; but the Parisian ladies always
give the preference to Leghorn, for which they reserve
their ostrich, marabout, and heron feathers. A new tissu
de paille is made in bands, which, sewed together, forms a
pretty bonnet de fantaisie. The capote castellane of pink
satin, covered with black lace, forming fichu on the crown,
and voilette at the edge, ornamented inside with roses, is
very generally admired. Fancy straws are ornamented by
wild flowers, foliage, bunches of the peach and apricot
blossom, &c. Various simple and pretty, caps are made
for neglige, all of a round form, and many owe much of
their beauty to a new kind of foliage ribbon, which forms
so pretty a trimming. The fauchon is . also admired,
richly embroidered and trimmed with Valenciennes or
Mechlin lace.
Small blond caps with flowers, and dress hats with fea-
thers, are reserved for evening wear; nceuds of velours
epingle are worn in the hair, and many pretty coiffures
are made of bugles in every colour. Bracelets are univer-
sally in favour, large or small, rich or simple, in every,sva-
riety of material, one or more at pleasure. The Chute-
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lame suspended from the waist also varies in value.. The
Al gloves continue oft, ornamented at the top by ribbon
tarsades...Beada ox narrow blond forming ruches.