Show LATEST NOVELTIES Spencer Vaiats Revived Costlr Dutj tons Sleeves for Sloping Shoul der The spencer once worn by men as j Hll as women is again in vogue It has adapted however modern im 1I CAPE I provements in the way of large sleeves and a waistcoat In other joints it is exactly the garment our smart grandmothers wore in the not very long ago It has however a shorter basque andin very modern instance it had a box plait over each hip as well as one in the middle of the back The original spencer buttoned but-toned up to the throat and beyond a neat collar of linen or lace it owned no ornament The buttons were perhaps per-haps elaborate for buttons have always al-ways been a point of luxury witness the coin buttons once popular for mens garments and the jeweled ones worn on court suits when the polite world did not change Its mind on the subject of dress every six weekr The woman who possesses a set r > f fine antique buttons is most fortunate just now since the fine buttons are the fashion Two or three years ago when the tailor buttons were in vogu tor everything she was no better off than anybody else 1 When the spencer is to be employed as a dress garment it is made of rich material and has sleeves of mlroir Velvet large and expansive All sleeves are now flat at the shoulder however spreading as they approach the elbow This is a little hard on < the liighshouldered woman wiho has so long enjoyed the position of dressmakers dress-makers model but it is only fair that the woman with more characteristically characteristic-ally feminine shoulders should have her innings She is now beginning to be the glass of fashion and the mold of form again and every means is employed to display the slope of the shoulders j Trfie cape shnwn in the illustration ic has a black lace yoke with jeweled I ornaments On this are mounted two white satin flounces very much rippled rip-pled lined with rose taffeta and each covered with a flounce of lace A double ruffle of rose mousseline de Sole is placed under the upper pelerine pele-rine A large bow of black satin is placed at the point of the yoke I JUDIC OHOLLET I |