3-085-797 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Ladies' Page: a white satin evening gown, 1898. '...I notice that the furore for soleil-pleated skirts of net, gauze, or mousseline has not yet worn itself out for young girls, more particularly where graceful scroll designs of lace are inlet on these airy fairy materials. The triple skirt of differently coloured gauze has had but a succès d'estime with us, who still cling to all the sweet and well-wearing simplicity of satin skirts. Here, to wit, is one, illustrated in a new and attractive style. The material, of pearl-white satin lined with eau-de-Nil and slightly trained, is embellished with a white mousseline sash, gathered to the waist by a cluster of La France roses. A motif of pink and white pearls on bodice is framed by the soft white fichu to admiration. The dog-collar and aigrette are pearls and diamonds. A frock, this, which may be set down as sweetly simple as well as being much more long-suffering than tulle or gauze could be possibly accounted'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.