| Show A costly dresa I 1 was shown a dress made for the czarina in paris it was composed 4 abort train corsage and high medici collar in stamped velvet the pattern in relief was of a cold pearl graland gra yand the ground of a pinkish gray of a tender hue which however will have its full value in atio han the front part or me slnar followed in nae me gray ot the velvet flowers and was trimmed in diagonal curves with five rows of pink and gray ruches of cut bilk between the niches there were bunches of the finest silver thread looking like thistledown the upper part of the body had a square cut aper aturo filled in with pink silk on which silver braid was vertically applied all over the stomacher and dorsal peak were outlined with a triple cord of pink silk gray silk and silver ending in cassels tassels tas sels which repeated the thistledown effect the dress had inside the skirts from the knees down six rows of fully gathered valenciennes lace enlivened with alternate blots of pink and pearl gray narrow ribbon the floar is made by arranging a ribbon in a quantity of falling loops all held together mrs crawford in london truth |
