Ladies' Column.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 426, 9 June 1904, Page 2

Ladies' Column.

Latest London and Paris FjsMons By MISS ADA. Lady Journalist, &c. A CLOTH EVENING COAT. this season of the year, whan evening festivities are in fall ?«SwS swing, the need of & long coat to wear over an evening drees is moro or less felt by every weman who take b part in social gaieties. A suggestion for a coat of the kind is given in the accompanying sketch, and it might be made up in wine-coloired cloth—cham--pagne. or claret—pale bine or black. The

cape is covered with stitching aad trimmod with woollen lace And little straps of velvet, the sleeves are also stitched and lace-trimmed, and a band of lace borders the coat. The newest woollen laces are run through with, threads of a contrasting Bhade, which give a shot effect. Bed lace ran through with dnll. gold would look well on a red cloth coat, and green lace woiked with dark blue would be effective on a coat of green c.oth. DECOBATIVE DEESS TBIFLEB. Details of dress have risen to a place of great importance in modistic schemes, and just now collars, in particular, are playing decorative parts on toilettes for day and evening wear. Several styles in collars among the trifles sketched herewith, No. 1 is an elegant little turn-over collar, with long ends, of embroidered lawn —a favourite style for simple blouses and shirts. Smart and fashionable also are : the stiff collars of linen, with]) guipure or

Swiss applique, as sketched in No. 3, and, for morning wear, collars after the style of No. 5, which is composed of glace silk and velvet strappings. In No. % is another style of high collar—a detachable joke that covers up entirely the top part of the blouse, It is composed pf ribbon

1 and faggot-stitching, fringed at the edge. • Two collars for evening bodioeß are shown ■ in Noa, 7 and 8 , The former is one of the J fashionable black sequin berthes, worked • with chenille and finished with chenille I fringe j the latter is of lace, shaped in • points. It might be tipped with fur. For evenißg wear, also, ia the floral garniture i depicted in No. 4, flower sprays of the ■ kind being very fashionable. A wide stole composed of bandß of ermine (whioh might be replaced by cheap marabout or any ether far, or by gathered chiffon) and a centre band of lace or embroidery, with chenille fringe at the ends, is represented in No. 9, and the remaining sketch, No 6 illustrates a picture muff of velvet, ribbon and lace. tJNDERSKIBTS. Much importance is attaohed to the Bilk petticoat of today, since with the wearing of long skirts out of doors it is impossible to avoid a revealing now and then of the jupon beneath, when 4ihe. skirt is held up in orossing the, road, for instanoe. The green silk or moreen petticoat has been, and is, very popular (sinos emerald green has been the colour of the year, so far aa dresß faßhtona go), and is frequently worn beneath a dark blue akirt, thus introducing the favourite touch of green in -g connection with blue. The most wfful--* petticoat for out of doors is the Mack moreen or silk jupon, flounced with black woollen laoe. The flounces might be of fout-inoh lace sewn on with narrow bands of coloured or blaotand-white "hbon. The top flounce will probably last out m life of the petticoat, the lower one WW need renewing from time to time as it gots worn at the edge. The coloured petticoat is very pretty, and smart, <M course but unless the colour *gwefl, well with the skirt above, the all-black petti? coat is the wisest ohoice. The silk frilj sewn into the Bkirt ia a graceful set-off to the latter, but it is apt tosoil easily.