The straight, loose-fitting bodice or coat lends slimness to women with pronounced hips of if care, is taken to get the proportions of the skirt right. Many dressmakers are using long, pointed pockets, braided or embroidered to emphasize the slim hip line, and it is noticeable that no other line goes straight or unbroken round the hips on the little dresses. The lines always dip on the hips or are brought low in front and behind, or they are broken somewhere. Most lines, indeed, whether perpendicular or horizontal, are broken unexpectedly. A waist belt, which used to go round, now stops half way. Flounceg are restricted to the sides of the dress or the front. The circular movement in the lower folds of some of the new skirts is corrected by the straight, long waist line and some straight falling drapery over it. In a word, dressmakers cannot get away from the straight, slim silhouette, and they-are to be congratulated. No line is s0 becoming to the female figure, and no waist line is more in harmony with the laws of health than the present low placed line.
Velvet is seen at its best untrimmed and: well draped. A most distinguished dinner dress was shown made it black velvet, folded round the figure, and drape ed on the left hip, where it was held by three gold cabuchon. The decolletage was exceptionally moderate, and, though the arms were quite bare, the shoulders were 80 cut as to hold the bodice well up under the arma. Another attractive velvet dress was in pale pink coral colour with a light silver embroidery round the hips to hold the gathered skirt close. It was cut in long straight panels, about a foot and a half wide, with petal-shaped ends to fall over a slim underskirt of silver lace. Hanging from a straight bodice, the lines were graceful, and appeared to give height to the wearer.
The use of tinsel and metal materials is continued, but they are so soft in texture that they fall as gracefully as the..mosb supple satin. Black, metal and blonde lace are used effectively over slim; underdresses. The lace forms wide wing sleeves. from a coat or cape bodice. Nothing is more becoming than these) wing sleeves, and they are having a merited success. A velour dress in brown had a short coat, which was shaped like a bat's body. Another new fashion is to have a light-weight coat and skirt with a full, long cape of the same material to throw over it when the weather is chilly. Magnificent evening capes are also being made with batlike sleeves very much exaggerated. There is one sensational mode] in crimson velvet embroidered in gold, and a copy of the same design in black embroil dered in silver.
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