TAILOR-MADE FROCKS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 533, 19 June 1909, Page 11

TAILOR-MADE FROCKS.

: The tailor-made gown has gained much by : oonformingrto a certain femininity: that ■it has hitherto ' lacked. On the Riviera • and at other fashionablo headquarters the gown in'question is unprecodentedly twpular.Palo shades, ; such as lichen and, almond green, havo been' popular.' worn; with largo- highcrowned Hats of black chip and ; a swathed neck-band. of blacjt satin, finished" at-.-' the side ' with a large flat bow. All the nowest coats 'are .straight,, and the, large majority, are' strapped' and braided.- Elejihant. grey, worked up with a little vieux blue,; is spoken of as likely to be much in favour at. forthcoming weddings.'; A heavy make ,of shantung m . this, colour 'is specially • in • favour/, Faded-rose, j)ink, : in deep shades, is sufficiently becoming, and "so w the faded violet tone that rivals it at the moment. Princess frocks of,blue:serge, enlivened with old.rose, or one of the Oriental .coloured printed tussores' latoly bestowed on us by : fashion,, are often supplemented ljy. the -curved corßelet belt; 'which is really , a girdle with a deep front panol and'two long panels aV the back. The bolero has returned to us in a diminu-

tivo form, and is made an excuse for s vast amount '.of v exquisite embroidery'.' In -gold filet- embroidery, with ~ floss. sills: ,in shades of ( chestnut, such a bolero was recently scien worn'-with" 'excellent'effect; in connection with a; rich' ehestnut-colourcd, perfectly' plain, tight-fitting, gown of; satin ' cloth.: .' Those boleros' 1 of embroidered tulle, and net, with 'or without .tails—it'is . rather absur.d. to. 'imagine a' bolero !witb a tail,' but so' it present— ars'worn with: more or less plain skirts. For evening wear', there are fascinating little boleros,' Embroidered' in 'fine : black , het, in jet, gold and silver;. and there not only have tails,, but front pieces that form panels to' the'hem of the skirt. '/■

i '"Don't;worry, take things easy, sleep.ten hours a day, and eat five meals,", are the rules for, a long life given by Mrs. Fanny Friedman, who died in New York recently, aged 112 years. It was her proud beast that she had. never had a doctor in her life, and up to the.day of her death,:which was due entirely to'old age, she remained active in; mind and "body, and' took . a spocial delight 'in gaxdening. • '.