"NOTES FROM OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
Young married ladies and young ladies of eighteen to five and twenty, still refuse to wear trains at dancing parties. They are certainly wise, as the train loses all its grace when held up in the hand. Flounced skirts are fashion able, with flounces of lace or pinked-out faille, or with a single deep flounce softly plaited; plain skirts of silk are also wem, magnificeiitly embreidered with pearl desigus and pendants. A toilette prepared for a young matron of six and twenty is of Nile blue velvet, and cream satin embroidered with pearls. The whole front of the dress, skirt, and corsage is of embroidered satin. The rest of the dress is a redingote tunic and corsage of Nile-blue velvet; the neck cut square in front, the sleeves just reaching the elbow. A high Medici collar of the embroidered satin completes the toilette. Beautiful ball toilettes are made of crepe and tulle, also of cream or white blonde. These are useful toilettes, especially the lace, as the skirts can be worn with polonaises of heavier material for dinner parties. The draperies of such dresses are short, and the corsage has a long point back and front. Very little sleeve is worn, and the neck is cut low and oval, edged with a wide lace berthe or drapery of gauze. The dog collar, a substitute for ordinary necklaces, is a detail of evening dress which I must not forget. it is a great boon for ladies who de not possess much jewelry, as, although they frequently consist of rows of real pearls or diamond stars sewn upon satin or velvet; yet more frequently they are made with strings of coral or ordinary beads. The width varies ac cording to the length of the neck, hut as much as possible the number of bead rows should be uneven, and the beads should not be tee large. Coiffures are still very high. A simple 8 on the top of the head Is now the style generally adopted, while the hair is waved or frizzed ever the forehead, hut not quite as much over the eyes as last winter; one single flower is placed rather forward at the side. Flowers or jewel are favorite ornaments, hut feathers are not much worn this winter. Gloves are as long as ever, and always of the unglazed kid, called in Paris Peau de Suéde; they are fashionably worn of a light or medium shade of beige with even the most dressy toilettes. No one but brides now wear white gloves. Shoes and slippers are of the color of the dress. The stockings should match the dress or its trimmings ; they are plain, of silk or fine Lisle thread, with embroidered docks. Let me note, for the theater or concert-room, the last pretty novelty in bonnets. It is the butterfly bonnett, the herder of which falls like small wings en each side of the head. it is made of chenille, satin, or velvet, and trimmed In front or at the side with feathers put on in large clusters. Fashion."

Godey's Lady's Book, February 1885