THE WORLD OF FASHION.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue XV, 11 October 1902, Page 958

THE WORLD OF FASHION.

(By

MARGUERITE.)

Muslin, flowered and plain, will be in great demand, and with these—as with laee—black ribbon velvet will be most effectively and prettily employed as a running insertion. An improved grass lawn will be a very important item amongst the summer’s fabrics. This is more silky in texture than its predecessor, and blends beautifully with the creamy lace it will be so surely wedded to in the coming gowns of the summer girl. A new, pretty, and decidedly advantageous introduction is the

double width material with a selvedged edge or border, representing rows of ribbon, or an embroidered pattern to be utilised as the border of the skirts. To the home modiste this is too obvious an advantage to need any comment. The idea is carried out in various materials, such as black and white check with simulated rows of black satin ribbon, dark blue linen with white embroidery, muslins with garlands of flowers as bordering, and so on. Green velvet is having a vogue in

millinery choux at the present moment; so, too, is the fruit and large birds. The fruit is innocent, if at times absurd; the birds are not, and, besides encouraging heartless destruction of innocent life, are not nearly so suitable to, or pretty for, summer wear as flowers, or the hundred and one pretty hat trimmings at our command. The velvet lozenged and cobweb veils are the most modish, with all kinds of white veilings, including a revival of the white of years ago, with a black chenille

or velvet spot. The blouse is in all its glory now; wherever one goes in fashion’s train there shall the blouse be met, whether in smart cambric shirt form, in lace, silk, poplin, mousseline, muslin pur et simple, satin, or grass lawn. Exquisitely made with tucks, insertion, applique, embroidery, incrustations, or entredeux, one really begins to think this bodice must be one of the immortals of the sartorial world, and that the end of time will still find it flourishing.

This jacket in the accompanying sketch, is a very useful one for theatre wear. etc. It is carried out in soft ivory Liberty satin, edged all round with a double frill of chiffon in the same shade, and outlined with the tiniest possible silver-thread trimming.

This design shows a very simple • evening gown, but one which will give plenty of work, for the flounces

are made with a series of small but-ton-holes, through which baby ribbons of a deeper shade of velvet are run. The dress itself is in pale mauve crepe de chine. The baby bodiee is run through at the top with the ribbons, softened with chiffon of the same shade as the crepe de chine. The waistband is of violet panne, and the chiffon ruches edging the flounces are of the same shade.

An exceedingly smart and attractive design is here portrayed, and is suitable to complete a costume, or it may be used as an independent garment, to wear with various skirts. The waist is tucked back and front the depth of a short yoke, and below the tucking in front is a wide band of lace. Dainty cotton or silk muslins and lightweight silk or woollen fabrics are suitable for this model.

The “race coat,” which has become a power in the land, advances from one glorification to another, till it has become quite as costly and dainty as the gown it is supposed to protect. The one shown in this figure is of grass lawn, with incrustations, insertions, and flouncings of ecru Bruges guipure lace. A species of bolero is formed by one flounce, a deep collar falling over that. Narrower flouncings edge the bell sleeves and hem the coat, headed by insertion, and handsome incrustations come above that.