At dinners, balls, evening parties, and in opera boxes low-necked gowns are worn. Married women wear handsome satins, velvets, crepes, or spangled nets. At balls young girls wear dresses of light, diaphanous materials, tulle, chiffon or crepe de Chine. A young girl's dress is never very low in the neck. Girls of medium height sometimes prefer dresses to touch or clear the floor.
Tall girls look best in trains.
Slippers of satin to match the color of evening gowns are worn, or slippers of gold or silver tinsel cloth. No jewelled ornaments are seen on young girls except, perhaps, a string of pearls around the throat. Married women wear their rarest jewels. It is not yet considered good form to wear gowns cut low in the neck when dining in public. This fashion, which prevails in England, has not met with general approval here.