FASHION NOTES.
Many of my readers will be glad to know that the high sleeves which have so long held their sway are now being modified. The new sleeve still requires a ridiculous amount of material, but it is pleated into the armhole instead of being gathered, consequently it droops gracefully towards the elbow,which takes away the high shouldered effect we have so long striven to obtain. The new Eton jacket, too, is an improvement on its predecessor. It reaches just below the waist and so hides the band of the •skirt. I never could bring myself to wear one of the old style ; they reminded me so painfully of an untidy •servant I once had; her skirt and her bodice were continually parting •company,and she seemed incapable of the effort required to keep them together; the ugly gap round her waist was a perpetual eye-sore to me and 1 never felt the slightest desire to imitate the effect. Skirts are still very plainly made, many of them being gored at the front and side. Draped skirts showing a contrasting under skirt, but always keeping the upper part plain, are beginning to be seen about.
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Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 33, 10 November 1894, Page 11
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195FASHION NOTES. Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 33, 10 November 1894, Page 11
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