SUMMER MANTLES.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9305, 4 January 1896, Page 3

SUMMER MANTLES.

Exceedingly novel and stylish are the capes decorated with appliques, sometimes of one plain material on another, but more often delicately embroidered with the finest jet beads. The designs in these applique models are one of their chief beauties; they are of a most complicated description, and as the whole design is cut out of a single piece of material, without a join throughout the whole of it the amount of skilled work required to produce one of these capes may be guessed at. In one of black cloth applique on satin the fine beading I have spoken of is utilised, and the neck is finished off very prettily with a ruche of finely pleated black ribbon lined with white ribbon. In another model the applique of plain fine cloth, almost invisibly stitched on plain black satin, gives very much the appearance of a rich Terry brocade. A square collar finishes this model. Coloured cloth capes in applique designs, in open work over a coloured lining, or with accordion-pleated capes falling below the short shoulder cape ornamented with braid, make serviceable wraps.