Ladies' Column

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 349, 15 January 1903, Page 2

Ladies' Column

FASHION AND THINGS K ;• FEMININE. Bt MISS ADA MELLEB. (Am. BiaHTS Ebsbbvjbd,) A FETE DRESS, % Ssflft? PBETTY dress suitable for a §£ss garden party or fete, for affcerjffiJK noon wear s - * QO seaside or for pier concerts, and so forth, is suggested in the sketch in this column. The materials of which it is composed are voile and lace. The voile might be white and the lace string-colour,, allmight be a harmony in cream. Another suggestion is that the voile should be pale dove-colour: mounted on a pink slip, the lace being ecru and the drapery round the yoke eora-coloured chiffon, ran through a couple of fancy buckles. Or this drapery might be of lace instead of chiffon Toe bodice; of voile, is gathered into a yoke ot

late, and is supplemented by a separate eoatee of lace, arranged in two flounces and having short, tight sleeves of lace, which fall over the fall sleeves of voile attacbed to the bod ice, and which are held to the wrists by caffs of lace. The skirt is finely tucked over the hips, and is trimmed with lace medallions, beneath which is a deep flounce of voile. The material under the medallions can be out away to show the pink or; any other coloured slip on which the, voile is mounted, ~.. .... . A PRETrY DRESSING* JACKEIV ' Accordion-pleating is very much used this season, and is introduced into the daintiest of tea<-gowns and dressing* jackets. An example of a pretty little dressing jacket, composed of accordionpleated pale-blue nun's veiling, is sketched in this column. It is frilled down the fronts and all round with woollen torchon lace, repeated on the collar and sleeves, the lace frills being in each case headed by a flat band of lace insertion, The collar is faced with white washing silk, which would need to be re*

moved, however, when the dressing jacket is washed, and the fronts are united by Sale-blue ribbons. An evening skirt that as seen its best days could possibly be utilised as a petticoat after the style of the model sketched, which is trimmed with frills of cheap lace If the foot and bands of insertion above. ' > S BBNOVATIKG A K&QTJBE. ..'This summer bodices and blctaaea are either pouched, sacque-like, or made with boleros, and it is quite impossible for anyone with any pretentions to fashion to wear, in its original form, a last year's blouse that'failed to drop ever at the waist. There are ways, ;■ however, by which a demode blouse may be : renovated into fashionable prettineas again, and X have recently seen' a" very clever idea carried out for effecting this sort of renovation. The blouse experimented oa was of cream coloured brcode j and had done duty at a last year's wedding. It waa tlen • simply gathered into the neck and waist, a laee scarf passed through a paste buckle trimming the throat and a fichu of fine lace -to -match covering the shoulders and the side-fronts of the blouse. The'hopeless part of the affair this season lay in the fact that there was no pouch in the waist, and without it there was no style to the blouse. Accordingly the garment was transformed to suit present rfquirements in this way. It was unpicked at the 'throat and waist, and as, • happily, no breast-pleats. had been cut, when the gathers were unpicked the fronts of the blouse f 11 free and in entire pieces. The stuff was ironed and waa then arranged at the neck in a double box-pleat,| which fell the length of the stuff,. that is, jto the waist. Ahem was then made and . was edged with creamcoloured puipiire insertion. The bodice was' turned in' at the neck to the correct V shape, the • filling in being of creamcoloured lace (a separate vest), and the 'box-pleats fell over a corselet of black satin. A ifichu of lace 'was passed over the shoulders and fell in j stole ends down the outer sides of the box pleats, reaching slightly below the waist. >£ The sleeves, which were last gear's |.Jlrishops,' were rendered up-to\dai<e„ by:being shortened and cut straight at the einda and having unders oi lace' to matchi*the vest. The. design might be Bligbfclyjvaqied by bordering the vest with revere, -easily accomplished by turning the? material at the neck of the blouse outwards instead of inwards, I and facing • the revere thua formed with ailk and laoe. i »