The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-11-04

lie letter OF our eprightiy Paris c0rrespon-
dent which we printed yesterday, gave, in adj
dition TO an interesting budget Of court gossip,
the most recent news of the fashions in Paris.
Enigmatical satins, with Egyptian sleeves;
velvet leaves that simulate tunics on soft
co!ored poplins; gold pheasant plumage
NUTS, foretokening winter; "ths great dress
novelty" Of waistband rings, through which
sashes are hung in elegant folds behind; the
scarf mantle in velvet trimmed with gimp
tho Japanese foulard white and blue mohair
for walking dresses; plaided silk pettcoats
under white leno the strangest overskirts,
or buttoned on the side widths, castel-
lated and worn everywhere for travel
Ing and promenade; Marie Antoinette
fchus for demi-tolette, and richly trimmed
with point, for evening wear, over ashes
of rose satin the mantilla veil and "twenty-
three buttons" which our correspondent
counted on o beauiy's vast overskirt up
wards-such are the salient points of her pic
ture of the latest Paris styles No new bonnets
have appeared, but promises are whispered Of
hidden treasures for the coming weddings,
and we are favored with glimpse OF the
famous bonnet which has been sent to the
unfortunate Empress Carlota at Tervueren.
1T was Algerian trimmed with floss fringe.
She wears red necktie, blue bonnet, and
sometimes mauve gloves"
Amopos of gloves: it ia said that nicer
gloves are exported to New York than can
easily be found in Paris itself. An American
lady, with such adorable little feet as alone
suit The short walking dresses which, accord
ing to a recent English traveller, Everybody
wears now on Broadway" cannot hope in
Paris TO find ready made such exquisitely
fitting little shoes as she is accustomed TO wear
at home. There are not few OF the cutters
tor our New York tailors who could be
equalled by no Partisan rival Indeed, the
signs are encouraging that with such new
journals Of fashion Of our own as Hnper's
Buzdr, with skilful and tasteful mantua-
makers, milliners, tailors, shoemakers and hat
makers of our own, including, Of course, the very
best European workmen and workwomen,
whom high wages have tempted to migrate
here and last, not least, with the refined inge-
nuiiy, the audacious whims and caprices, and, we
fear we must add, the boundless extravaganza
Of our American ladies, the sceptre OF fashion
may yet be transferred from Paris to New
York. New colors fash on our eyes in the
Park, in Jerome Park, on Fifth avenue
and Broadway, in church, ct the opera
and the theatre, at balls and dinner
parties, and emulate the various hues of our
al f>li R,yk ore c1,oh
marine greens, with their fantastic names of
Frog, Mermaid, Sea Foam and Undine; nut
browns and dead browns, Noissttes and
Egyptian; redder shades, like Etna, Vesuvius
aud Ecu; and chameleon grays, like the Moon
on the Desert, are by no means all Of foreign
Importation. Nor can IN altogether foreign
origin be attributed to all the materials or
the muli.udinous styles Of walking and
riding dresses and indoor toilets for morning
and evening, to tho profusion of trimmings,
the sleeveless jackets, the coquettish caps,
the bewildering variety of bonnets and cloaks,
shawls and wrappers. One of the newest
and most graceful of the latter bears, by the
by, the popular name of The Gerolsein. Even
when foreign fashions, Of which the ocean
cable can now bring instantaneous news, are
adopted they are often adopted but partially.
Our ladies have learned, ut length, to require
that they be modified and improved to suit
their respective figures, compilations and tastes.
In fashion, as in politics and in business, Ameri-
cans are beginning to make to the Old World
Declaration Of Independence. The ladies
demand liberty and progress, and their motto,
like that OF their husbands and brothers, is
ssGo Ahead ~