LADIES' DRESSES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1705, 7 June 1884, Page 4

LADIES' DRESSES.

Much more (says Lady Manners) is spent by ladies ou dress than was formerly the case, yet good, useful, and pretty materials may be had for vety modtraie prices. When howuyor, the home spun twee I or cambric is made up by a tailor or a first class dress maker, LIO or Ll2 will bo charged for it. This sum used to be the ptice"of a silk gown. Many ladies at the present time, whose fortunes cannot be considered luvge, spend LGOO a year 011 tluir toilets, and it is not unusual for LIGOO to bo expended by those who go. out-a groat deal, Sixty guineas for a court dress is a hot uncommon price. Though brocades and satins now rival in richness those in the waidrob'i of Queen Elizabeth, they do not seeaitopos 6ess equaily kstin? qualities. At all events many of their wearers are " constant to a constant ohsnge." There aro now coatumia

fur wrj variation of tho barometer, apect,'iil.V ntl >ptutl for every occasion,-'At'fift'olock the the most- glowing velvets and rich.lacca may leplsro the sensible fcrga ,<u t far an li nr. uiilil :)ic tea-cowii has to bo changed ior tlio less comfort;,ble but equally costly dinner dress, Young unmarried girls vera, ii.rracrlv diessed with the utmoateimiiliiity while draperies, like those Sir Joseph Bevn»Ws used to piiiiit, were considered 'in evo-y rcspeel mut ouitoble for (hem.;. Hat, now, too often, three, four, or five '.handled a year arc spout or. the dress of a girl 'whose ■ fortune nuy never acred that amount, (low much kinder it would be .instead .of ; lcttimj tho money dissolve into cltmda. of li my net, to lay ie a part of itto.in'crease her marriat'e poriion! It lias.; been said ihat, no matter liow humble the dwelling, \viMcvurn.yo!iii?iiir;and a young women win urn ono'another make thuir h<m:e tlici;p ; is Paradise But with the expensive li.biU of our days it-requires some .courage for. a; jouvg roupie who have ] as«d their ewly years in luxmy to niany on small means, Rtperie'ice, however shows th*t thoße who. I'eiorinino to hvo with simplicity, and. to tXL-rcise a self-denial for tho sako of each other may ti joy the perpetual feast of mutual affection without spending largely. B it it is easier to negiu life in an economical manner than to rotrenoh later,