CROCUS.—For "Young Australia" a dress of light-blue nuns' Tailing, not too full round skirt (no crinoline), with reel fern leaves sewn as a border, loose bodice, low filling over the skirt, like in a Greek drees; on the front five silver stars, ...
Article : 458 wordsA novelty in this fashionable material is the shot ottomans, myrtle and copper, bronze and blue, silver and fawn, blue and aurora, blue and dove, brown and grenat; also, in evening shades blue and pink, shot with cream; egg colour, ...
Article : 70 wordsIn capes, which are now much larger than in previous seasons, extensive stocks are being shown—chinehills, pre-eminently a lady's fur, seal, racoon, silver and black fox ; also with a fringe of tails, skunk, mink squirrel, and ...
Article : 91 wordsThe attempts of the Fenians to elevate Ireland by means of dynamite will be read about in Australia with as much indignation and, perhaps, more horror than they have excited in London. I need give no details, as, of course, the mails ...
Article : 1,862 wordsETHEL asks: What is considered suitable for the bridegroom to give to the bridesmaids, jewellery excepted ? AUNTIE asks: Colour, materials, and design suitable costume for a girl of 16 at a pupil's concert ? ...
Article : 40 wordsNow that Easter is over, there will be much activity in the fashion world; evening and soon ball toilettes will be much in demand. For evening parties, concerts, and theatre dresses, young ladies will find nun's veiling in white or ...
Article : 542 wordsDark green Indian cashmere skirt, trimmed with velvet. The round skirt is striped with velvet, and the plaited tablier is draped to form a fan ; it is bordered with velvet, as also the kilted back. Green cloth dolman, braided and bordered with feathers. The lining dark-red satin. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 52 wordsThe present season offers great variety in the make of bodices. For walking costumes the tight-fitting jacket, with or without vest or plastron, is most ...
Article : 357 wordsDark blue silk and black lace. The front of the bodice has a lace plastron; the tablier ia silk, and the skirt is covered with piece lace, which falls straight and full over a narrow kilting of silk. The basque is edged with lace, and there are bows at the elbows and on ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 62 wordsSeal-brown velvet and beige-coloured satin. The waistcoat and tablier are of kilted satin. The velvet redingote is made with a corslet front and a waterfall back. It is fattened with tortoiseshell and gold bultons, and the revers are satin. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 43 wordsThen handsome materials will be largely worn during autumn and winter either to jacket bodices to walking costumes or as trimmings for reception, dinner, and evening toilettes; they are in 10 shades—Burgundy, prune, grenat, ...
Article : 107 wordsA rich material for trimming to the spotted velours. In these the foundation is velvet, the design worked or woven upon it in silk either of a lighter shade or of tints contrasting with the ground; the favourite pattern seems a shamrock in ...
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912), Sat 11 Apr 1885, Page 766
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