Fashions for the Elderly Woman.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11, 15 September 1906, Page 57

Fashions for the Elderly Woman.

That the old-fashioned “visite” has returned in a modernised form is very pleasing news to the woman past hetfirst youth. For a young figure there is much that is charming nowadays, but for those who have joined the ranks of what in olden days we should have termed tile ‘middle-aged” very little has been done by the exponents of fashion to render their out door attire pretty and effective. For a stout figure the ordinary eoat and skirt and all the many and various eccentricities in the realm of Empire and Direetoire attire are anathema, and the visite, with its suggestion of a light and becoming “mantle,” is an immense comfort. These “visites” are carried out in black taffetas inlet with wide a jour bands of chenille latt’ce-work, which are further adorned with squares of black jet introduced at each intersecting point, while the wrap is caught in at the back with a huge jet buckle.

1 am giving you a sketch which I hope you will like as a suggestion for a gown, to be made in a check tweed in two shades of brown. Velvet in a darker shade of brown would make a suit-

able trimming, and a vest in biscuitcoloured cloth. 'l'he hat is carried out in brown lelt. with darker velvet, ami wings in brown and fawn colour at the side.