A JET REVIVAL

Dunstan Times, Issue 2480, 10 May 1909, Page 8

A JET REVIVAL

The revival of jet is the natural sequence to the present taste for gowns if light and airy material, for nothing finishes and completes these delicate structures so perfectly as bands, ornaments, or strings of jet. French dressmakers (says a Paris correspondent of the Westminster Gazette) are using the most filmy chiffon, as well as the illusion they call tulle, but which we more frequently designate net. This net, when of good quality, is particularly well adapted for hard wear. The overskirts, paniers, and tunics of the material tare all weighted with jetted bands. A useful revival, and one that is sure of a welcome, is the little bolero which was worn some five years ago, but has since fallen into oblivion. The proverbial seven years have scarcely been touched in this case before a new fashion has been evolved out of an old, one. The small bolei’os are chiefly composed of net, on which jet embroidery is wrought. The fact that jet is used does not by any means preclude the employment of gold, silver, or colored beads. A new metallic combination is used by some of the leading French do.signers, which is utilised as narrow bands and small insets, although it has not, as yet, been wrought into a whole p-arment. Much of this metallic brocade is used for bags, belts, and purses, as well as for lining hat brims. The real Directoire gown made pockets impossible, so that the elegantes of the period found it necessary to spend much thought and trouble over their bags. What they called the reticule was actualIv a copy of the frivolity bag carried by the practical women of England about that time, and specimens of the bags of the Directoire which are to this day extant, would serve admirably as models for decoration, as well as for handy articles of the kind for our purposes of today.