A WOODEN COSTUME.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1134, 4 January 1884, Page 3

A WOODEN COSTUME.

A unique costume was made for the Olympian Club carnival, Boston, the entire outfit of dross, bools, mask, wig, and parasol being of wood. The chief garment was a princess dress made of various kinds of Spurr’s papered veneers. It had a brocaded front and basque, and trimmings of knife-plaiting, fichus, and loops of wood ribbon, and was ornamented with rosettes and leaves in wood of various shades in their natural colours. At the sides there was n substitute for embroidery in inlaid work of fancy designs. The sleeves were of cork paper, trimmed to imitate puffing, and at the bottom was a deep border of black walnut knife-plaiting. The boots and gloves were of birch bark, and the mask of matched woods with a fringe of plaiting. The wig was composed of about 100 curls, consisting of .white pine shavings artistically grouped. The parasol, of Chinese pattern, was covered with vari-coloured veneers, and similarly lined. This attempt was thoroughly successful, the effect of the different kinds and colours of wood in the combination being very striking and artistic. The veneers were so thin that the costume wns not very heavy, and so , flexible that it was not liable to injury.