FOR EVENING WEAR.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 231, 23 June 1908, Page 5

FOR EVENING WEAR.

■ 'Chiffon':taffetas, good old• chiffon.taffetas,. Boems-likely to remain .high in popular favour for many a day to come, especially for youngish-people's frocks. Thero is nothing" that can'quite'take its place, though messaline,. the new soft satin, will probably run it hard. .This; also called Princess 'satin, is the- .soft,.'supple satin , that is -having a great vogue, at Homo for evening frocks' It comes iin;.all delicate shades and at just about "'.the:'.same?price as chiffon taffetas. Then there is a more sheeny quality that comes in double width, an exquisite fabric. In Australia a very fashionable material has the fanciful name of Madame Butterfly silk. It looks as if it should be good for fairly hard wear, and while it will make up charmingly for evening frocks, it . would do very well also for afternoon wear. It is very much liko a Japanese-silk, but thicker in texture, and it has the soft finish'of crope-de-Chine.' '■ ■' . Next , season bordered fabrics are to be all , i-ho thing, and-cottons, silks, ninons, will all jome .with' charmingly designed borders. Some robo .length? that were shown to mo the other day were of nirionj with dark polka dots on a light' ground, the. border several inches wide being patterned 1 with red v and pink and yellow .roses, tied with bluo ribbands. Below this band ran another almost as wido, with black stencilled design of leases. . Another rob'o was .of tussore coloured Shantung, covered with green spots, with a border of striking design—clusters of crudely coloured red roses set in ;an edging of rather stiffly, arranged larger spots. Ido not 'know what 'was the technical namo' for this pattern, but if it. was not called Persian, it should have been. Very different was a silk .ninon, covered, with little black spots, and bordered with a dainty Paisley pattern in heliotrope and blues, a. frock that was assuredly'meant, to go with a dainty house and pretty china.