These are useful toilettes, especially the lace, as the skirts can be worn with polonaises of heavier material for dinner parties. The draperies of such dresses are short, and the corsage has a long point back and front. Very little sleeve is worn, and the neck is cut low and oval, edged with a wide lace berthe or drapery of gauze. The dog collar, a substitute for ordinary necklaces, is a detail of evening dress which I must not forget. The width varies ac cording to the length of the neck, hut as much as possible the number of bead rows should be uneven, and the beads should not be tee large.
Coiffures are still very high.
Flowers or jewel are favorite ornaments, hut feathers are not much worn this winter. No one but brides now wear white gloves. Shoes and slippers are of the color of the dress. Let me note, for the theater or concert-room, the last pretty novelty in bonnets. It is the butterfly bonnett, the herder of which falls like small wings en each side of the head.