Fashion Notes

Chatblaine pockets are passé. Sleevekess basques are still in vogue. SrisiNG calicóes are made with sideplcated waists. Ladibs' boot-heels are higlier tlian I ever in Paris. Velvet spencers are coming into favor. Long, heavy ear-ringe, almost rcaching to the shoulder, ai'e the tliing. Worth's novelty is the costume all-inonc, waist, skirt and polonaise. This is really a princesse dress, with long back in Marguerite shape, cut in trom Knglisli forms sloping ontward on the tournure. Hair, uowadays, the women twist into a knot at the back of the head ; no matter if no bigger than a hickory nut, and only takes thrce hairpins to hold it. Wiien a wonian wears her India shawl wrong sido out in order to show that it is real, slie wears it not because of its beauty nor because of its warmth, but to display hor wealth, and that vergos very close on the vulgar. Deep linon cuffs are now worn outside the dress-sleeve ; cut with a deep point on the back, short in front, and closed with threo finad buttons on the point. IlANUKEitcTiiFFii with colored borders, cither solid or striped, are allowablo for j ! morning and promenade toilets, though I never in so good taste as the simple hemstitchcd square üf lineu. A l'.Miis correspondent tells of a lady in a silk dress flounced to the waist, vÁth ! a short jacket to match, trimined round with birds' nests, embedded in a í'ringe of moss. Anothei' toilet equally extravagant compriseel a fourreau of blackvehet, fastened down the front with diamond buttons of over a thousand pouuds, and a hat all of lolophorle f eathers muff to match, and jacket trimmed round with the same.