3-086-455 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Ladies' Page: an evening bodice and wrap, 1898. 'Ball and dinner gowns are found to be short-lived accessories of our altogether as the season goes on, and half-a-dozen evenings at festive gatherings will take the bloom off all our most smart belongings with the single exception of black. It is often found useful, therefore, by those who go out much to possess an extra bodice which will accommodate itself to between occasions, and this Illustration shows a very acceptable case in point; the crossed folds of silk being built of palest pink and yellow respectively, flanked by handsome draperies of lace, thus enabling the wearer to use it with pink and yellow skirts, whose separate bodices are meanwhile undergoing a treatment of "doing up." This pretty shawl-shaped evening wrap is of green brocade, lined with pink, plentiful draperies of embroidered chiffon giving it the dainty fluffiness inseparable from our outward needs this season.' From Illustrated London News, 1898.