Rvenln? dresses (says a writer in the

Ladies' Treasury") are still made of

satin, either plain or brocaded, but al most always of satin. Their bodices are studded with ;lirazilian or straw dia monds:, and e\yn the have a row of strass buckles or buttons on one siile. whilst .m the oilier side falls a lace scarf, fastened by roses at the waist. In brocaded satin skirts you often see the back widths of lace or net of the same colour. This is a very pretty way to widen a too narrow skirt. I have seen a black satin thus widened by widths of jetted net it the back. The back widths of net have niching at the bottom. Two skirts mieht thus be made into one. I must now tell you of a new trimming for ball dresses, invented by Worth. It consists of little flowers, out out of col oured crap-, which are then stitched on to rich silk materials. For instance, on a pale-blue satin skirt, you will stitch rows of rosejr, the smallest and palest at the top. and then increasing in size and colour as they reach the bottom. And this is done by making the light roses of single leaves, which will be In creased In size and number of leaves as the flowers reach the bottom. Sometimes the lighter shade roses are at the bot tom of the skirt, and the darker at the top.
