VOGUE IN WHITE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1816, 31 July 1913, Page 2

VOGUE IN WHITE.

White dresses were the order of the day at Chantilly (writes tho Paris correspondent of "The Queen" of June 21). And such whito dresses! 'Not a, bit like tho old-fashioned simple muslins which i.ovoliits invented lor poor but lovely heroines, but white circles of the most expensive and complex simplicity, worn with hats of black or black and white, and cut in somo cases with coloured waistbelts: or rather with do soie, net, Ghantilly lace, and wry softdull satins were the favoured materials, as also were tulle, aigrettes, and roses tho favoured millinery elements. Draperies of net or mousseline over satin skirts, or plisse liioussetine skirts bound by laco Greek tunics, were much seen, with decolleto corsages, and rather full, transparent sleeves, somo long, some short. A sensation was the wholeboncd tunic over a slim underdress. It 6tood out just a littlo all round, as did the sleeves launched by a big dressmaker at last year's Grand Prix. There are those who dcclaro that this crinoline tunic will bo worn by the majority very soon. Anyway, limp flounces ami plisse skirts will soon rival tho Greek tunic, and the clinging draperies, and if properly done they will not add one tithe of an inch to the breadth of the figure, but they will bo more graceful than piese'nt draperies. After white, and white nnd black, mauve, Parina violet, and beige were most, worn, with, of course, a' few clashing cceentricities, obviously put on with malice aforethought. The big hat as we knew it is'not seen, but a bigger edition of the current small shnpo is worn with aigrettes nnd tullo arranged with a most original defiance of line—a hat with backward-sweeping lines will liave its aigrettes darting away in front, one upwards, ono sidewavs, as if they had been frightened. Some pretty gowns were in white lace, with coloured chiil'on tunics; others had a suspicion of fur edging on a whito clii Son tunic over a plisso white skirt, nnd no colour except nt the waist. Most gowns were short, very raised to show the feet in front, and the only trains were so narrow as to look nioro liko trailing ribbons.