Ladies' Column. CONCERNING- WOMEN'S WEAR.

Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 161, 28 November 1896, Page 2

Ladies' Column. CONCERNING- WOMEN'S WEAR.

Madame Qui Vive, in the latest number of the Westminster, says:— Woman, that indefatigable pirate, has purloined for her own use yet another of man's exclusive modes — the linen-fitted flannel shirt. For a season or two she has supported, or rather failed to support, a monstrosity called the winter blouse, an irresponsible and hideous garment without shape or form, and depresaingly lumpy, finishing at wrist and n«ok— an unhappy compromise she has now thrown aside, while Bhe emerges most becomingly clad in a pretty woollen shirt, smartly completed by the olassio collar and cuff of masculine custom. A natty, oharming, aud altogether desirable evolution is this ! Further developments of the winter shirt are the plaid silk poplin and velveteen varieties— incongruities, perhaps, we should have thought Borne time back — with their blending of fancy silk and starched linen, but delightfully versatile nevertheless, and of great value, I imagine, to the traveller, who may in a trice doff the linen of the morning and don the tuoked muslin and lace of the afternoon. What a possible pos^esMon for the cyclist on tour I— a positive mullum in parvo. The cyclist would seem quite the pet of ihe ladies' outfitter, for I notice that he never wearies of devising some new thing to minister to her comfort. A gnuee voil. that will proteot her face from the dusty dangers of the road while it enhances her charms by its exquisite clearness and seyant design, is one of his recent devices, Another accessory consists of onsy knitted gaiters in black or oolours, that slip on in a second and thus spare her the irksome intervention of the button. * • • * • Some pleasant notes of colour' occur in the newest tailor costumes: one, that of lining the roll collar with rich toned velvet bound by a strapping or an edge of fur; another, a Parisian notion, that of allying a black cloth shirt to a bolero of red or other bright cloth braided over in black, but so olosely that the vivid tone just gleams through. Another recent arrival, an afternoon gown that I have met at some of our moat exclusive modistes', shows how very oharm'.Dg is a bolero of Persian lamb over a gown of dark purple oloth when that bolero where it almost meets on the left side merges into an erect frill lined by . ream satin, containing ia the space between a orarat of two shades of fresh green. THE QUELLS GLOVEB.I Some interesting vaformation has lately been furnished concerning ibe simple tastet of the Royal Family. In the matter J gloves, for iastance, Her Majesty's economy is marked. She will have nothing but black, and does not use more than two dozen pairs i 1 the year, at about Is 64 per pair. She has never favoured the modern fabhion of long gloves for outdoor wear, and ij disposed to think the one button, which sufficed as a fastening in her young dap \b the most comfortable arrangement, and ceitainly the least trouble. The Queen is one of those old ladies who have settled down into their own style uf things, and she taken no heed of varying winds of fashion.