People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1896 — Materials For Evening Dresses. [ARTICLE]

Materials For Evening Dresses.

Transparent materials are preferred for evening dresses, whioh makes the lining an important item. If glace taffeta 80 inches wide is selected, it ooets 75 cents. Silky looking cotton linings, at 85 oents, are 40 laches wide and resemble finely ribbed silk. The outside material may be. a chiffon at 60 oents, monsseline de sole a little heavier- for a dollar or a net at price. These are 40 inches wide. Then tulle, two yards wide, may be found at a dollar; gauffered Japanese crape or silk even as low as 40 oents, being 84 inches wide, and lovely cotton crapes for 15 cents. Small figured, self colored silks for evening wear are from 75 cents, but are not as mnoh liked as tbe transparent materials. A silk skirt, even of tbe qssful habntai silk, 34 inches wide and 50 cents a yard, is light and girlish when worn with a chiffon waist over tbs same or silky cotton lining.—Emma M. Hooper in Ladies' Home JonrnaL