UNDERSKIRTS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9604, 19 December 1896, Page 2

UNDERSKIRTS.

The great vogue of tho season is beige, • and the safest silk petticoat to buy is one ol that oolour. It goes with the fashionable grass lawn and with the endless shades oi pale brown, tan, biscuit, string, deep cream, and buff tones amid which La Mode is disporting herself. Muddy, in effect may be some of these shades, but they , are so artistically treated with lace and satin linings as to be converted into, highly* becoming arrangements, whether for blondes or brunes. ./ • The new silk petticoats are daintily finished with an inner frill of pinked-out shot silk and an outer flounce, bordered 1 with three or four cordingsi"which'3lftkea i them stand out comfortably from the ankles I and tops of the boots when the wearer 8 walks. White petticoats are. reserved for "1 very light dresses." ;| Skirts are not so distended as they have been, but there is a quantity pf fulness at . ; the back, so disposed as to fall in-numerout folds, all very close together* Many dressmakers line these with mohair, but others manage by sheer skill to produce an equally .• good effect without introducing, so, heavy - and stiff a material. Lightness is an < essential in women's dress too' °^, n los * '-' sight of by the very persons ■ who" niake '. garments the study of their.lives/ , : ; >