LADIES BY "CLIU". [Edited by " Clio."]

Evening Post, Volume XLIV, Issue 74, 24 September 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

LADIES BY "CLIU". [Edited by " Clio."]

Tho Editress will be glad to answer any questions pertaining to fashions or cookery. FASHION NOTES. Dust cloaks are always in vogue in summer. Very pretty ones are made in fawn alpaca, hung full, and undrapcd from the shbuldor to the arm, and ornamented with n deep flouuce of guipure lace as a cape or two smaller flounces according to taste. Silk is also much used for these elegant wraps, especially for evening wear; most of these being trained to cover the gown underneath, and lined throughout with a soft silk of contrasting colour. A summer costume suitable for a garden party is of pearl gauzi, through which runs a Ratin stripe of blue forget-me-nots. Two ruffles of lace finish the bottom of the full plain skirt. The pointed bodice is outlined with blue satin ribbon. The full sleeves are sheer and cool. An evening bodice which may bo worn with any dark silk Bldrt is of pearl-grey India silk, with a jabot of fine French lace at each side, starting from the shoulder and outlining the pointed bodice. The neck is cut square, and the puffed sleeve crowned with a lace cap. Below tho puff is a band of ribbon and a deep lace frill. The latest parasol is a canopy of flowers arranged to cover a thin silk foundation. One of the most fashionable is a mass of violet and pink tinted orchids on a lining of pink tinted silk. The handles are unique creations, which may secrete anything from a hairpin to a powder-puff. A pair of scissors, a fan, and a .small comb, rolled out lately from one, and the owner of the parasol that held this collection was not iv tho least abashed. Modern Society says, "The trailing street dress in going out as fast as it came in; several leaders of fashion having decreed that it caused more bother than it was worth, and, better still, the sack-back jacket, first monstrosity of this season, is pronounced, by the very people who sell it, to be a mere joke, simply launched to see who would take it or leave it alone. In Paris this is a season of lace, and it is mostly jewelled laco. Gorgeous beetles and butterflies are caught in its meshes, and their wings are bright with imitation gems. Black laces and net are studded with jet. Tho cream guipure lace is much worn. It varies in width from two inches to half a yard wide. A coarse black lace covered with gold crescents is also new. A very pretty article is of chiffon and point de gene intermingled in the same pattern. Delicately tinted gauzes have borders of artificial flowers. A very new fad is a " sachet skirt," and this is how 'tis made, taken from the latest number of "Modern Society": —You take pale mauve silk or any other colour, and run two flounces of lace round the bottom, and under these flounces you run a band of silk which acts as the " sachot." This you fill with lavender or verbenj fi Low-throated bodices arc y seen in Paris, and before the middl, it season they will prevail very general*, Most of the bodices have lapped fronts Wiiich cover all the glovo-tight seams of the waistlings. Some have handsome revers shaped like those on cut-away jackets, mid these revers join a picturesque collar which often covers the greater part of the shoulders. In very dressy toilettes the folds on the corsage are of rich net or lace, with handsome frills as a finish.