TRANSPARENCIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 574, 31 July 1909, Page 11

TRANSPARENCIES.

~The. transparent-,top to- the bodice 'so preached/ against .by medical men' for Sumo summers past reigns stronger 1 than ever (says :-a; writer... in Paris), • for' in: many cases the whole, of the shoulders'are included in the yoke. In fact, I saw a frock of sulphur colour eolienne, tho ..Substantial bodice, of which ./finished under the .arms, the drapery being , brought rather high over tho bust and hick:, A transparent yoke, and . sleeves of very, /finely-tucked; •,. cbiffon: completed :t-hc bodice. ;..This, was ah extreme -case; in most .gowns, at least a strap of some, substantiality goes over the. shoulder. - In; this' matter of transparent yokes and .sleeves lac©, still continues .to be^moro, popular than; chiffon.-.or net. ' When .either-of: the latter is -used, it is more, generally gathered: than'tucked. Needless ,to..'say,' /that however ; fashionable -transparencies may bo, - no woman of, truo :• refine-" men t/ will. wear/: anything extreme—a lownecked bodice' in'the daytime is against all/ the canons of good taste. The arms and shoulders showing; through thin laces and chilfohs mark , the, vulgarly-daring society woman and the . demi-mondaiiie.

' Where the V - and, square'.transparency/is used /with a /summer' frock, tho question of becomingness" always suggests to the Frenchwoman a' thin, lining of net, or .chiffon tho .saine as /with the .high collar. Lace—especially Irish'lace—laid, directly against tho skin has. a very, hard effect, a very, fine niousse'ino de' soiO is always used' to back it; The same' rule. applies to the coloured transparencies that the fashion of the gown of one tone have mad? popular. In this case, though the transparent yoke and sleeves may be of the exact colour,of the frock, a.net or mousseline lining of a different colour is usually.applied. As a guide to this,-madamo has. for ter great cons'ultantr—her mirror. She knows to a degree-what colours, suit bcr and what do not—that is. why shot,, effects . and .layer .effects are always popular in .Paris—tho criidity of one colour will bo toned down by covering it,' with another. A "grey frock, for instance, worn by' a lady I know, had a transparent colour and small yoke of grey tulle which she said threw a blue reflection over her skin, so she had its white lining changed to apricot colour.

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