SOMETHING OF SLEEVES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19307, 21 April 1926, Page 7

SOMETHING OF SLEEVES.

We live in an age when stenographers sit at their work with arms quite as bare as those of the lovely maidens of the South Seas, and when you pass girls going to work in the moving wearing frocks that are quite sleeveless, without gloves, you don't even feel that there is something odd or indecorous about it. lint when you see an evening frock with close-fitting, lent; sleeves of opaque material, yon do feel something of amazement. Vet in Paris these evening frocks with long, close sleeves are being worn, and you will now see the like in Australia. The neck of the long-sleeved evening gown is not usually very low—no lower than many a daytime frock—and tho only tiling that proclaims it a veritable evening gown is tho richness of the material from which it is made -gold lace,, silver tissue, gorgeous chiffon and velvet brocade—fabrics that are pre eminently for evening. There is this season a wide variety in the matter of sleeves. Von may wear them long or short, skin tight or flowing, ballooning or drooping. Quito frequently on frocks intended for thr* street there are straight, close fitting sleeves with fairly large, spreading, turn-back cuffs. An interesting sleeve for formal afternoon or dinned frocks is made in one. with a yoke. This j yoke and sleeve combination is made of metallic cloth, or brocade, or of thin fabric heavily embroidered. The point is that it must' be weighted down in some way to hang rather heavily.