Ladies' Column.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 440, 18 August 1904, Page 6

Ladies' Column.

LATEST LONDON AND PARIS FASHIONS. BY MISS ADA MELLER, .

A SPRING COSTUME

THE tailor-made costume sketched is a serviceable stylo for ..immediate wear, and shows the new Eton coat, and new sloove. It would make up well in any cloth or serge material. Tho coat falls to the figuro: at tho back and stands rather away from tho waist iu front. It is trim-

mod with military silk-braid, and is attached to a narrow waistcoat of whito cloth, also trimmed with braid. The sleeves aro big and finished with wide, turned back cuffs, and fashionable frills of ploated batiste, and the skirt is composed of a series of flounces bordered with military braid.

FASHIONS IN SLEEYES. Immense variety is to be observed in sleeves just now, the newest point about them being deep cavalier cuffs and lace or muslin ruffles. This style of sleeve is adopted on coats and demi-toilettos alike. The new bell sleeve with turned-back buff, faced with velvet, and lace ruffle falling over the hand, is sketchod in. No. 1. among the sleeves illustrated. In No. 2. wo have the plain coat sleeve with 'Cavalier cuff, steel buttons, and lace rufflo ; and in No. 3 is an elbow sleeve also finished with a handsome turned-back cuff and lace frill. It is suitable for demi-toilettes occasions. So, also, is No. i, which has a small rolledback cuff and three full frills of laco. In No. 5 is a third model of an elbow sleeve, suitable for chiffon. It consists of a loose

puff finished 'with',, two frills of its own material, and a shaped frill of lace. No. 6 is an elbow sleeve of a different kind.. It hangs straight, without being gathered at the elbow, and falls over a frill of lace. A pretty sleeve, for soft silk, is illustrated in No. 7. It is tucked the top, gathered up

at tho elbow and falls in a natural frill over the lower part of the arm. A graceful, artistic sleeve is pictured in No: B,' consisting of a long, close-fitting slcov6 of lace with an outer drapery of soft silk. Tho remaining three sketchos are of >sleovcsj suitable for tailor-made coats and boleros. No. 9 shows tho now bell cuff, falling over the hand; No. 10 is a full sleeve finished with a shaped cuff and wrist-band: and No. 11 is a tight sleeve cut with a cuff, slit up tho back, and inserted with a fulness of its own material. ' : ' *;■* - .

HOW TO RENOYATE; SILK. v Rub any silk that requires refreshing on tho right side, with warm water in which ammonia has been dissolved in tho proportion of two toaspoonsfuls to half-a-pint, Turn the silk on the wrong, side and iron it with a moderately hot iron. Rubbing and ironing should be done froni selvedge to selvedge of the silk. !*, <!