Draperies are always difficult to describe in words. The draped dress is one that requires great nicety- of taste and a good sense of Proportion and line to achieve.
Almost any dressmaker can mak) the straight bodice and boufan skirts of the present-day sent. Victorian frock, which conceals the silhouette. But the draped dregs requires a touch of genius, and ay eye for the lines of the human form, I have seldom seen one more beautiful than an English mode} shown last week, in pale grey satin, arranged with a pointed tunic in front and a short square train at the back The draperies were gathered on one hip, and from this clustering point long lines of soft. ly, shining sequins radiated out. wards like the rays of the sun, up. wards and downwards and around until they lost themselves in tle folds of the material. This gown was inspired not in Paris, but in London, and is eminently suited to the tall slenderness of English women.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.