For sport and the morning walk the leading woman's tailor in Paris is making straight, short skirts which either fold over deeply or have groups of pleats at one side or on both sides. The skirts are long enough to cover the knees and wide! enough to look graceful when the! wearer sits down, 'The coat, for sports tailor-mades, is something of the Norfolk jacket order, with pockets, belt and' yoke. The materials used are figured, not checked. They may be described as tweeds woven into new patterns. Beige, brown, mauve-greys, red-browns are favourite colours, For town wear there are neat] little coats and skirts in plain black! cloth, which have short, white, corded-silk waistcoats fastened with pearl buttons, and from the {eft-hand pocket of which may hang a gold fob. There are navy blue. coats, three-quarter length, which' have long inset darts of black satin as trimming, and fold-over skirts, with which may be worn white silk' chemisier-blouses tacked into the waist belt. The three-quarter coat, which shows three or four inches reasonably-short skirt, is fashionable, The Armour of Evening After a long course of jewelled and beaded gowns women, or rather fashion on behalf of women, has decided upon the gold or silver-decked dress as a pleasant change from barbaric gold and pearl. The result is the frock is so closely, sewn with gold or silver sequins—Sguate sequins are mere fashionable than the round—that it looks like suit of bright armour.
Again, there is the chain-armour! gown, which is sewn with shaded dine rings so that the wearer appears to be cased in steel.
Now and again it happens that the dress designers are content with half-measures. Thus a black velvet dress has a bodice sewn with silver Sequins and long sleeves, made to suggest the gauntlet worn by the knights of Jong ago, And there re, too, jaunty little—jack leeviess, and decorated with silver squins. ' These are worn with black' gowns.
Some gallant reader may declare that woman needs no armour to' increase her attractions. But Eve knows very well that a good appearance is an excellent asset in a world which persists in judging largely by appearance
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