My idos is that it is not the cost of the materials for a gown which constitutes its groat expense, but the amount the dressmaker adds on for the trimming and making. A fow weeks ago, at a luncheon party, I met one of the most perfectly gowned women I have seen for a long time; her dross was of parma violet-faced cloth, the skirt wes quite untrimmed but fell from the waist in pleats which had been pressed quite flat and hung beautifully; the little coat was slightly pouched both' back and front and had a very deep-folded belt of silk of the same shade—it wae trimmed with diamond-shaped picoes of cloth from which long narrow strips had been cut away, these wore lined with the auk which showed underneath; with it she wore a lace slip which was fastened down the front at intervals with very diminative bows of barms velvet. The hat was of pale grey felt with " long shaded
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.