EYENIKG DRESS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9323, 25 January 1896, Page 3

EYENIKG DRESS.

Silk, liberty satin, and gauze are the materials chosen for evening toilettes, the Bleeves and trimmings being almost invariably in a contrasting colour. The skirts are made with very slight denii-trains, the low bodices are discreetly cut, the proportion between those that cover the shouider and those that leave it exposed being about equal, and in either case the sleeves are very full, with overhanging puffs, Isaving no band visible, and falling nearly to the eibow. An excellent model, made for a lady in the best Parisian circles, is of liberty satin in a lovely shade of pinky mauve hortensia. Bordering the skirt is a priceless band of point lace, fourteen inches deep. The low bodice, with slight point at the back, forms a small opeu jacket in front, lined with deep gold-coloured siik, and disclosing a prettily draped fron; of hortensia mousseline de soie. Over the shoulders are deep stiffened epaulets of lace over hortensia silk; these are pleated in front, and turned back a little with the jacket fronts, aud are again pleated at the back, and continued across the shoulders as a flat pointed berthe. Sleeves, and a draped band in front of shot gold and hortensia sdk, and bretelles of hortensia, and yellow hollyhocks over the shoulders, complete a very rich and stylish toilette. A dress for this lady's young daughter is of accordion-pleated white gauze over white silk. All round the edge of the skirt is a wreath of palest reseda, almost yellow, hollyhocks, with bows of satin ribbon to match at intervals ; these bows serve as starting-points for wreaths of the flowers, carried up in curved lines of varying length acrois the front and sides of the skirt, each wreath ending in a bow. The low 1830 bodice is of the pleated gauze, with a wreath of flowers round the shoulders, and puffed sleeves of satin to match. Draped bretelles of the reseda satin are tied up in bows on the shoulders, and end at the belt in bows on each side of the waist in front.