SLEEVES.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9835, 18 September 1897, Page 3

SLEEVES.

Tlie popularity of the rucked sleeve, both for morning and evening wear, is at its height. Long may it continue at that altitude ! There is no form of sleeve that more graciously clasps the arm, while it gives a softened outline, and makes the arms what they really are, not stiff appendages with a wooden elbow joint, but a means of expression and individuality, through the medium of fine and delicate curves. Our grandmothers and great grandmothers knew the value of these rucked gauze and net sleeves well, In one of the most charming portraits taken of our Queen as t> child, and her mother, the Duchess of Kent, is represented in a simple short-waisted low-necked gown, with short puffs at the shoulders, whence there reaches to the wrist a diaphanous tucked sleeve of fine net, with rings running diagonally round the arm of black satin ribbon an inch wide. All the smartest dinner gowns to be worn this season have rucked transparent sleeves to the wrist, though the neck may be as decollete' as before. Black chiffon sleeves, added to a black evening gown which looks dimodti, will, with a little readjustment of the skirt, and a pretty sash with long ends, transform the whole into a French looking dainty garment. Further, if a berthe of small crush roses is added, quite a brilliant and distinguished effect will be achieved, with a small expenditure of trouble. When rucked sleeves are used with evening gowns the length of the gloves worn is restricted to four buttons.