What fashion calls the "new silhouette" is, at first glance, so different from our hang-over clothes that we are depressed. It is wonderful, however, how much can be done with panels and belts to modernize a costume. Silks, the various crepes, or lace can- be combined charmingly with the original material to drape below the hem, giving the length and irregularity now in vogue. The length of the dress itself, in many cases, can be increased by removing the elastic at the belt, allowing: the line of the waist to sink. Then an up-tothe-moment touch may be added by a thick (shall we say, -clumsy?) girdle plaited from several strips of the panel stuff and fastened in front with a- conspicuous buckle, below vhich the ends, falling loose of the plaiting for their final three inches, descend almost or quite to the ground.
A lace tunic draped over an old dress will create a new and modish costume. The Greek line, that is; the unbroken drapery from shoulder to hem characteristic of the present fashion may be achieved by the lace garment.
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