BELTS FOR EVENING FROCKS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 123, 17 February 1908, Page 3

BELTS FOR EVENING FROCKS.

■ The 'crucial'test of success when a dance dress for a girl is being chosen is tho belt', and this season-there are so many new and pretty fashions ill cinctures that, given discrimination, no mistake- can possibly '- be made. Ono, type of figure will bo relieved from clumsiness by a' cinctaro .inadoi in' ono with, the dress,'. and fitting closqly.to the waist,., of palm leaves .wrought-'in,, -filofloss silk with; veinjngs' of silver. Tho' : dress .in such an instance should be modelled in the princess manner, yet without- its - closelyfitting severityivwith- the- fulness drawn beneath ■ the s passementerie .- girdle allowed - to flow out again below the waist. ;

There is a new . sash that .is. ultra chic in Paris, called the Fatma,, which j with'modifications,' is a suitablo ono for a girl. It is a very broad "cincturo; pulled far down below the natural waist, and. mado of. soft satin. As a rulo it is'used upon the now princess robe for afternoon or evening wear—a robo that silhouettes tho figure' though ■it does not cling-closely : to it.'-In the casoof a girl the fulness of tho' broad sash should be drawn-down iu front in a - point' to givo length, to the figure, unless she be of the willowy aesthetic, build- that is riot very -English, in which; case the breadth of- tho drapory should bo.emphasised;