Ladies' Column.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 428, 21 July 1904, Page 2

Ladies' Column.

Litest London and Paris Fashions By MISS ADA. MELLEE, Lady Jf our Baliat.&i. [Ali, BiaHTa Eksbbybc.] THE NEW TA.ILOB MADE. return of the cloth cape does ijsM aot mean that the tailor-made co»t« %J&9 and-skirt costume will be forsakes, i for there are always advocates for a well-built coat, whioh is, indeed, indispensable, no matter how capes may flourish. The new spring coit is slenderfitting, and follows the gentle curve of the waist while being at the Earns time a eemi-loose garment. The favourite mode with tailors just now is a coat that falls closely to the figure at the back and a little away from the waist in front, containing the prettiest qualities of the Bacque and the tight-fitting coat. The looat-and-sklrt costume sketched is typical of the leading mode in simple-modes. The skirt is absolutely plain save for the

strapped Beams, the straps appearing to be a continuation of those on the smartly built coat, which is double-Breasted and trimmed with gun-metal,buttons and a tailor-oollar and cuffs of velvet with hems of cloth. The sleeves show a return to the simple coat sleeve that has for months past been superseded by the more elaborate, bouffant model, of which we are becoming a tittle weary. There is a refreshing simplicity, about the plain tailor-made that, after a surfeit of elaborate cloth costumes, highly braided, lace encrusted, or otherwise bedecked, is very restful and agreeable to the eye' Oar coat and skirt would look well in any of the fashionable cloth materials. Light grey, fawn, or dove-colour is always a good choice for spring wear, and the trimming might be of fancy velvet, for instance, green, or blue spotted with white i while if the costume were of pastel blue or hopsaok or f rieie, the collar and cuffs would be effective in black velvet, either plain or decorated, with a bine or white spot, MOUTH WASHES. It is a law of hygiene that the mouth should be rinsed out after every meal, but the little law is not always obeyed, A weak solution of borax is a capital thing to use in the evening as a mouth wash; and in the morning, after brushing the teeth in. the usual way, it is a good plan to wash the mouth with tepid water, to whieh a few drops of tincture of myrrh have been added; orEaude Cologne may replace the myrrh. A delicate mouth wash is made by mixing together about five ounces of Eau de Cologne and six ounces eaoh of orange-flower-water (or violet water) and distilled water. A rule should be made of steeping the toothbrush in a disinfectant lotion, from time to time. ACCOBDION; PLEATED CHIFFON FROCK.

The charming frock which to the subj eot of our second sketch shows what pretty things can be done with accordion-pleated chiffon. The skirt is made of three fiounoes of black, closely accordion-pleated chiffon,, and can be bought by-the yard, each frill edged with a narrow ruoh of its own material." All that needs to be done is to .'mount the fiounoes on to a black slip, and the skirt is complete. The blouse is made from another flounce of chiffon, gathered at the neck into, a band of butter-coloured lace insertion;'threaded with Tom Thumb velvet; and* gathered below into a waist-band, the sleeves being

formed of more flounces Of the oiuffOßi strapped across with velvet-threaded lace insertion, repeated at the front of the lace yoke. The blonse is finally trimmed with a deep flounce of ivory lace matching the yoke.