ELABORATE SLEEVES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 56, 29 November 1907, Page 3

ELABORATE SLEEVES.

Fashion seems to have gone mad' in the many'developments of fancy sleeves that are seen on the up-to-date frock (says a New York paper). Novor were there so many bowildoring varieties, and tlie general adoption of the. pinafore orguimpo dress is largely responsible 'for- this. To-day, almost withoutexception, dresses and. separate blouses are made with the'guimpo and the morjj elabor-' ate the sleeve the smarter the gown. Indeed, shops are showing dresses made up' on long straight lines, almost void of trimming, yet with sleeves so intricate and elaborate that no one but an artist could devolop them. A fashionable modiste told me tho othor day (says .111 American writer) that overy pair of sleeves going out of lior house represented two days' work, for which she paid a girl 12s. a day, making the cost of a pair of sleeves, without the material involved, £l'4s. ;■■''' The short sleeve has had a long lease on. fashion's demand, but now we are told that with cold weathor, the long sleeve will invade the shops. However, it is yet to be seen, nnd for cortain frocks the short sleeve will always be worn. Tho fullness of the up-to-date sleeve )ias been transferred from the shoulder'.to the elbow, and now sleeves seem, to droop from the shoulder, being exceedingly full. at the culf. In evening frocks, the sleeve sliould come well above tho elbow; in blouses that aro for general wear they should:'.cover the joint, and for rough-and-ready wear tho sleeves should bo full length. J?or outer garments almost all sleeves are three-quarter length, save in the extreme tailor-made gowns calling for tlio full-length sleeve. .

It is a curious fact that nearly all the present queens of Europe aro taller than thoir consorts. The most graceful woman among European royalties, Queen Alexandra, would porhaps come an easj; first. According to a writor in a French jounin?, who gives his roadors the information, our own Quean is six inchos taller than King Edward. Tho Tsar, is also much amnllor tlinn his beautiful consort, and, according- to. the snmo authority, the German Empress has a greater height than the Emperor. Tho King of Italy is knownyas one of tho smallest rulers of his timo,.and. scarcely reaches to the shoulders of tho truly regal Montenegrin princess whom ho married about cloven years ago. The Queen of Portugal also, wo are told, is taller than King Carlos, and likewise tho Queen of Denmark. Queen Louise is a Swede, and belongs to a nation of hip people. The Queen of Roumania and the Queen of Spain also equal, ifj they do not exceed, thoir consorts in height.