The Coming Vogue for Lace.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 13, 29 March 1911, Page 69

The Coming Vogue for Lace.

Good real laces, it goes without saying are never actually out of fashion, although from time to time they seem to suffer from a temporary eclipse, during which periods they are left to waste their sweetness in wardrobes and

drawers, being brought out occasionally only for a brief inspection in the light of day. Now, however, we have changed all that, and there seems every reason to hope that the coming Coronation season will be most emphatically a season of lace. The latest mode for instance, so far as evening gowns are concerned, shows a distinct tendency towards the arrangement of frocks with double skirts the upper one slightly draped, with a view to giving a slim outline to the figure but bordered at the same time with a deep flounce of lace. The bodices naturally are bordered with real lace

berthes to correspond in design with the flounces on tire skirts. An evening frock in ivory-white satin, well in advance of the more ordinary kind of London fashions, displays a very graceful skirt which is lightly gathered into the w»ist and finished there with a chine ribbon sash. The hem of the skirt is outlined with a deep flounce of the finest point d'Alencon lace, an heir loom of considerable historic interest. The head of the flounce effectively outlined with garlands of tiny roses in pale pink chiffon, and trails of miniature forliage in green China silk ribbon. A voluminous fichu of Alencon laee, matching the flounces, is draped lightly round the shoulders, the long ends being drawn in front under the chine ribbon waist-belt.