ITEMS OF FASHIONS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 30, 26 July 1890, Page 14

ITEMS OF FASHIONS.

The cuirass bodice, without seams or rather with many seams and apparently no opening, is much attected by ladies with graceful figures and fine proportions. A spring walking costume of silk warp Henrietta in the new plum shade, shows a straight, broad, box plaited underskirt with the wide part of each plait heavily trimmed with a rich black biaid design and overhand silk embroidery. The full overskirt is draped ala Grecque. The deep points of the bodice are defined by three narrow folds of the material on one side, which outline a design of braid and embroidery extending, on the other side, to the underarm seam, where the three folds of the material are slanted off round the arm to meet it. Two collars, one a broad turnover, and the other standing, of a darker shade of velvet, finish the neck in a most becoming style. The sleeves are plain with a narrow band of velvet at the wrist. Notwithstanding that so many fancy designs of sleeves are shown by the modistes, lovers of the perfectly plain tight coat sleeve, and they are many, can still indulge their tastes and be in style. A perfect nt is exacted, however, that without a wrinkle permits the free use of the arm. Many of the plain sleeves are trimmed elalmrately at the rounding upper portion and also at the close wrist, especially when the Isxlice and collar are trimmed as well as the panels in the skirt.