Velvet Frocks for Afternoon Wear.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 20, 19 May 1909, Page 69

Velvet Frocks for Afternoon Wear.

All the newest velvets for the winter season are characterised by that peculiarly soft and supple texture which is inseparable from the cloths and satins, and, in fact, from all materials which will be used for afternoon froeks of the smarter sort, and in one of the accompanying sketches a very graceful gown is shown carried out in a particularly soft velvet, aud ehosen in a becoming shade of watercress green. This velvet frock is arranged en Princesse, with a graceful tunic and a fairly long train, both of them bordered with fur. Just below the waist there are large silk buttons and loops, in the same shade

of green, while the closely-fitting sleevei are decorated along the outer arm with a similar kind of trimming. The bodice is filled with a chemisette of real Irish crochet lace, "in a very fine pattern, continued in the form of a high collar band, and bordered along the top with a flat fold of green velvet. The toque and the muff are of sable, and the former finished with green Vfephi'to quids, J*