FASHION NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 94, 20 April 1904, Page 9

FASHION NOTES.

FASHIONABLE SLEEVE NOVELESES.

REVIVALS OF PAST GENTURLEk.

Simplicity in sleev.es is a thing of tl past. It's the this year th:

stamps the gojwn a new creation or a last season's model. Many of the fashionable sleeves are but revivals of the ' sleeves of past centuries. The 1830 sleeve is really the sleeye of the moment, with just a-, slight modification, and it is tbe languishing 1830 sloping shoulder that we see to-day in tlce newest French frocks. , This quaint loi\g shoulder effect is the successor of the, broad, straight shoulder; and all sorts of clever devices are introduced in the "way of trimmings to lengthen the effect of the shoulder line. In fact, many of the costumes so exaggerate this style thiit several of the sleeves have the effect; of actually starting-nearer the elbow than the shoulder. THE WING SLEEVE OF MIDTILE AGES. The first sleeve sketched is the fashionable three-quarter length sleeve, to be worn with evening gowns. It is made of accordion-plaited black chiffon, and headed with a shoulder strap of velvet and a cap of lace. Another unusual and pretty way of making an evening dress sleeve is shown in the second sketch. The third sleeve belongs to a French tea-gown." It is filmy and graceful, and made of accordion-plaited chiffon.. To the elbow it clings to the arm, the chiffon showing the plaits running round the arm". Then comes the wing-like drapery, edged with a frill of lace. Frills and furbelows distinguish more than half the new sleeves:' A fashionable sleeve for a cloth 'gown is shown in No. 4. It is entirely a mass of" lacefrills from wrist to snear the elbow, the frills widening as they go up the arm. At the head of the lace frills is a narrow turn-back cuff of velvet, trimmed with appliques of lace; The upper part of the sleeve is most conventional, and is made of cloth. Handkerchiefs are nsed to add to the novelty of' the fifth sleeve. The upper part of the .sleeve is gathered, the handkerchiefs forming the frills. \ ' ,' CKINOLINE-STIFFENED SLEEVES. The sixth sketch is an extremely graceful sleeve of satin cloth, puffed at the elbow, finished with a veivet cuff and a mull frill trimmed with lace. This style of sleeve is the latest mode for a cloth-or velvet coat. For a walking dress the seventh sleeve vs ai fashionable model. It is a cloth si&sve, with 'an abrupt widening at the elbow. The elbow puff is lined with erhroline, and trimmed with a band of contesting cloth embroidered with silk braid. Another odd feature is the tightfitting anitaine cuff. For An Eton or bolero jacket sleeve, No. 8 is the latest fancy. It is threequarter length, and a goodly portion of it is made of black silk fringe. The upper part of the sleeve is black silk, encrusted with jet; then jet-trim-med net of the silk fringe; and then the deep fall of fringe itself.