Everyone seems to agree that the new rule prohibiting the use of trains, plumes, and veils at the evening Courts which Their Majesties have lately held at Buckingham Palace, will create a demand for toilettes of a far more luxurious type than have ever been seen before.
Consequently, all the dressmakers are vieing one with the other to find effective fabrics and new luxury models for evening frocks, Perhaps the greatest sensation of which all London is talking, was scored by a marvellous model evening gown, made of a new fabric that shows navy blue ninon, richly worked with broad woven' silver stripes, mounted over petunia coloured ninon. This gown, which so cleverly suggests the new Eastern note which will predominate in dress this season, traduces all the delicate colours of an orchid, and it raised a perfect furore of enthusiasm, Equally successful and sensational was another evening gown, made of a sequin fabric that reproduces the effect of fine black Incquer, inlaid with Mother while floating black draperies produce the necessary softening touches that make the whole so beautifully picturesque.
But besides day and evening toilettes of the. most marvellous type, there are all manner of novelties to show in fascinating little jumper-blouses that, made without fastenings, simply slip over the head. A very. lovely model of this sort is carried out in apricot coloured georgette, brocaded all over in tiny white beads, inset with delicate appliques of black that throw the beading into greater prominence. It has an elastic-run waist line that slips inside the skirt behind, allowing the blouse fronts to fall loosely.
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