NEW IDEAS IN DRESS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 437, 20 February 1909, Page 11

NEW IDEAS IN DRESS.

i The most fashionable: way of wearing the. newer goods is'in a wave or ii rib. 'In serge the wavers'more seen, but the silk's, are all much ribbed, - and : I shall .not b*e surprised (says the London correspondent of an Australian paper) to; see thick-ribbed: failles worn by ■ the' besMr'e'ssed . women.. Youwill again see these thick silks in' black, trimmed heavily with soutache 1 and : quaint! motifs .of embroidery, - with chemisettes of tucked net' or lace. Of. course, there was ,a time when, every: welldressed woman had a black silk/dress' in reserve: for smart occasions. ; Wo are coming to ■tnem again; only 'they ; will be as .much made by tailors as by dressmakers. Braiding has to be' entrusted to a tailor to look really well. • -■: •• ; -■ Tie long narrow, sljirfjs will tako braiding better ' thaii any- other 'kind of trimming/ and Mere■: will be Difectoire: coats to match. . I know as surely 'as lart writing this-letter that they will be a fashion this spring: Ottoman silks in double widths we have left over from the Franco-British .Exhibition,' and .they will also be much worn.' ; :,. ; I have been looking;ati^he' new"soft satins, • which • are made in , double. width, . . more fashionable than any of;the, new. materials;*' Xhey , are wearing- practically ' nothing but those satm souples,for, evening wear, unlined made as narrow as the figure Will';take them' and-quite simple. A bit'.of priceless lace' or some old muslin embroidery,, edged' with pil-; lo w lace yellow with rage;! tight'short sleeves, n? ve? {' r'% u ffant'hair, kept'in .place by filets of beads or metal,put on ala lirecque. ; ■>; .. , The i favourite. colourfor. evening "wear; is ijapphire . blue;- It is almost" uniform-in Paris. It lights up beautifully, and' I have seen exquisite, shades of this colour.- ' ':, -Evening- ;'a're voluminous,' ! and •'• are' made in prshape'suitable,.';ln fact,-there is ; ecolesiastical note abbut mariy of,the-new-; ,?tv D ,.^ aps ' l ' ',£*■ ' 'pnssock' 'coat , ihe other day; chasubles and Dalmatics have been m fashion for'some time'. The, cassock .coat' ft, n i tal ln: S'rfs 'is 'extremely, like I™ ..old-fashioned .-figures..;of iNoah : ; andvbis : family, we used to find > our'.Noah'rlrks in : ?ur tender ' years'. .: From' that , extreme , pex-' haps we shall rush to another.. end -in.; crinolines.,.;'Quien,Sabe! , A It thai the' toga-like n wraps v that came ,«•; rather suddenly;, did ■ not please . the Parisians, and they ;aro .'reverting' to long; coats of Tnoline.de soie,"lined with thicker silk, f.M,wadded.; ''Large : stoles'. ; of : : fur.. are 'still S- v ? r ° WO JF with huge apron-life muffs which are. the new note of this: Winter.A muff is as much' ari'aproh.as a muff, and frosty days 2 • an HWrap on