EVENING GOWNS.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8963, 29 November 1894, Page 2

EVENING GOWNS.

Beautiful brocaded chine moires are the height of fashion, the flowers printed on the warp and thrown on cream, preen, apricot, and other grounds. The nacre moires will b« worn, and a variety of j waterings on black moires, moat of them resembling the knots in deal. There in a long range of pretty light makes of *ilk, glace, and others at extremely moderate i prices, charming for young girls ; and the cobweb pongee, the design black on light colours, with clover leaves at Intervals, is very raking, as also the tiny chine florets. Pink and green striped moires and green and white narrow striped bilks make delightful dinner gowns. Much black pleated lisee is employed over coloured materials, and as a heading to lace and jet trimmings. A pretty evening gown for a girl is of white aoie de Chine, silky and soft; it it made with rows of insertion let in as a sort of tunic, the insertion being a heavy guipure, while round the dress itself there are flounces of a lighter make of lace, and curiously enough two kinds of laces 011 one garment is much in favour. Another ideal dress for a young lady is of muHlin, with guipure striped with embroidery. S -mc of the newest b.idices end at the waistline, and are finished off with a twist of black satin ribbon. We can promise ourselves some lovely effects in our evening dresses, if rich materials in every exquisite conception of harmony in light and shade and colour and de»igu, and exuberance of handsome trimmings cau produce the*?. And certain iy (hey can iv the hands of the artists, for though (he stylos of fashioning dresses remain plain to an extent, yet these are by no mean-* plain when they have received the last touch of trimming and ornament. To such then is direc ed the utmost attention, and where to place a frill, a flounce or any uarnlture becomes a study iv Itself, and must be to a small limit, directed by individual taste. To b. gin with the materials—we shall wear the lovely brocades and broches, but they will be followed closely by the rich satins and heavy makes of silk. The brocade designs are brought to great perfection ; they are thrown out some times by a distinct coloured ground, but the design and ground where the same colour, th« former being, perhaps, in satin on dull siJk, 80 that it is clearly defined. Moire in to be a favourite material, and it is seen in larger waves than heretofore, and in stripes with satin. Plain material* are of ten elaborated wih garniture of passementerie and sequin*, laid in length wine lines over the material, say at. distances of about two or three inches. Between two lines of passementerie then may often be carried out a design in sequins Iα jet or glittering metal. On net such an arrangement is particularly well conceived. And net we are. to""wear again, made up ov6r rich moire silk, satin or glossy silk. No material is more suitable for ball dresses than net or tulle, and for young ladies it is very petty accordion pleated and bordered wiih insertions of lace. Net and velvet are u«ed much in conjunction, the velvet formiug such part* as the large, puffed eleeyo*, and saah, trimming*ands, and toowa* . Some very fine'-ehibiotiderfasforf orrßlngfronb tabliers foreteirs and the like.are brought in, and a vt-lvet dreas affords them an excellent | setting. * Velvet,' always dear to the artistic soul, U surely winning its way to a tfnod standing again, and though chiefly forming adjuncts to dresses, still often t>rniH these completely, having: then little oraamemation beyond some shoulder trimming of pasementerie, or a lit' le softness of lftceor sequinedgi'd f ulleat tueneck. Lace must take an important part: in the fashioning of every dress, and the passion almost, that is now shown for ie W certainly Justifiable,; for tile beauty of , design and fabric iv many kinds would be \ difficult to escel, beh g copies, as they often are, of the beat epecimeua of old laces. Aβ to the modes—in fclcirte, draperies are apparently pushed forward with Hotae promise of success. These often tak" the Greek form, and generally the straight falling ones with the uneven bottom outline are preferred, these latter, of course, admitting of a contracting p-tticoat showing. Plain »kirts will, however, undoubtedly ba in the perhaps : mou- ted with flounces, bub mostly edged with flounces* houillonne?, or pieces of ranterial laid, on full length* wise, and caught down with straps of material.