The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-01 00:00:00

FASHIONS FOR AUGUST.

(From the London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of

Fashion.)
The Clementine check or carreau is a novelty which
gives additional elegance to the plaids. Taffetas d'ltalie
are much in fashion, and vary in their patterns ; the
prettiest are checked green and Parma violet, or violet
and orange, a mixture much in favour this season in every
article of dress. For evening dresses the robes opale.
cameleon, arc en ciel, are decidedly the most elegant and
suitable ; the names are derived from the effect produced
by a skirt of blue muslin arachnee, embroidered in white,
worn over another skirt of pink gauze, which gives the
tints above implied. This style is not only used for
dresses, but mantilles, Castellanes, rnantelets a la vieille,
and echarpes pompadour, are similarly made, and whether
trimmed with plaiting of g uze ribbon, tulle festonne, or
lace, form elegant fantaisies of the season. Dresses of a
more simple description are of poile de cbevre or bareges
des Aldudes, ornamented with deep flounces or wide biais
in a wave ; satin stripes on ecru grounds are the most
admired.

A new style of make for dresses of cameleon, or opal
silk, is with both body and skirt open, and laced with
braid in the Tyrolien style; the open sides of both body
and skirt are edged with a bouillon a la vieille ; the sleeves
area la Medicis. Peignoirs of embroidered jaconas,
trimmed with ruches festonnes, or of India muslins, with
inlets of Valenciennes lace, edged with Valenciennes, or
organdya, with almost imperceptible stripes of pink, blue,
or lilac, tied with noeuds of sarcenet ribbon, are all to be
seen when the weather permits. For travelling dresses,
or country wear, coutil is in favour, trimmed with several
rows of narrow velvet of the colour of the dress. The
capricious changes of the weather render the pardessus
most useful; they are usually made of silk materials, with
wide biais, or guipure of gimp; the more elegant are of
muslin, lined with paille or lilac silk, trimmed with lace;
they have half sleeves, and are confined round the waist
by a ribbon ceinture. White mantelets are trimmed with
lace and lined with coloured crape, which still preserves
their transparency. White is much in favour this season
for bonnets, and feuillage is a favourite ornament ; a bon-
net of paille de riz, with shaded green and white ribbon
and bunch of mignonette, is very pretty ; shaded rosettes
or thous are also used, imitating the rose, formed of rib-
bon, from the palest tint of pink to the China rose. Crape,
lace, tulle illusion, paille de riz, sewed Leghorns, and
fancy straws, are ail fashionable. Flowers and feathers
are of every variety, but flowers of marabout, with leaves
of shaded velvet, panaches zephir, and plumets russes,
are the favourite ornaments. The round caps a la pay-
sanne, a la Babet, a la Bretonne, are frequently trimmed
with dark ribbons, deep blue or cerise shaded.

SALE OF THE EFFECTS OF THE LATE DUKE OF
SUSSEX.—The following is a correct statement of the
amount realised by the property of his late royal high-
riesf, recently sold :—Plate and plated articles, £20,752
15s. sd. ; decorative furniture, £3,984 ls. 6d ; trinkets,
rings, Hod seal 4, £2,473 ; snuff-boxes and bonbon-
niers, £2,238 12s. 6d. ; Blocks and watches, £1,994 ss. ;
swords, pistol-, and sticks, £1.0215. 6:1. ; pipes, tobacco,
and cigars, £3.617 Os. 6 /.; bijouterie, £BO2 Is. 6d. ; mi-
niatures and pictures. £759 Is. I: will he seen from this
list that the total exceeds £38,000. A paragraph has
hKeietin goi.ug,,e the
fNHt roundtirshas of the
ehart patersoffer for
to the
the effect tlukem,st
luable library of books and manuscripts ; the report is
destitute of foundation, no such offer having been either
received or anticipated.