The Fashions Of Paris

Evening toilets are made this season of vic-her mataríais than ever before, and the bighest novelty is vtlours Ie Venise, wuich is a velvet brocade upon velvet. The flowers are made in a pile almost half an inch deep, while the body of the velvet is itself about a qnarter of an inch thick, which makes a superb but very expensive robe. Of this the long 1 It alian sleeves are made, lined with soft armure silk, and the train is of the same, while the corsage and jupe are of Ottoinan silk laid in deep plaits, sometimes fastened with beaded passeinenterie. The novelties in woolen gootls for early spring are diagonals and serges, self striped silk warp and woolen Henriettas, and shepherd checks in gray and white and black and white. Navy blue A. A. and B. J3. in shade is a favorite. This is seen in fine serge, with a border woven in of gray and navy satiu in broken diagonals, and below this a band of three inches of black astrakhan. Sometimes the whole will be sprinkled with large polka dots of astrakhan.