BLOUSES.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9162, 20 July 1895, Page 4

BLOUSES.

Dinner blonses are much worn this chilly weather, on excellent example in black satin and jet was rendered singularly dressy by being cat square as far as the satin was concerned, but filled into the neck with gauze, formed into perpendicular bouiilonn£s narrowing towards the waist buokle; the elbow sleeves had the fulness caught up with some nine small jet buckles. The box-pleat for blouses of plaid or plain velvet has taken serious hold upon public attention. It was introduced last year from Paris, bat was Only taken up by people who epend a great deal on dress, and can afford to try everything. It is exceedingly pretty and becoming to a slender figure, and well deserves the popularity before it.' Most winter blouses of fine materials have the box-pleat in some form or another. Silk muslin plays an important part. Aβ slight evening dress, blonses are being made in silk mnslin or gauze, to be worn with a silk or velvet skirt. The neck is cat a little low, in square shape (in the girlish, picturesque stylo so fashionable for dishabilles), edged with a rich braid or embroidered ribbon. A blonse of sky silk muslin is frilled into a band of white tulle covered with oval gold spangles, and designing a wreath of laurel leaves. The ornamental neck band is sometimes of large jet cabochons, of white velvet embroidered with gold, or fur. To accompany silk muslin, as light and fresh as a wood anemone, wintry far is rather a carious choice, bat far is on everything, and silk muslin is introduced wherever the smallest coign of vantage can be found for it.