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Show EMPIRE AND RUSSIAN MODES. Striped velvets are made up into pretty empire gowns with the Bolero jackets, the sleeves of silk. Black satin ribbon is applied to many of the skirts and carried through a box plait at the side. Many of the serge gowns have jacket bodices ending in wide sashes, and there are several varieties of the Russian blouse. One of these had three box plaits in the back and front of the bodice. Silk cord was drawn through these box plaits, and a yoke of cloth appeared above them. Bordered materials are once more to the fore, and everything that sounds of Russian modes is greedily accepted in Paris. Traces of the Muscovite are apparent in the brown, blue and other colored woolens, which display a yellow band at the hem, with patterns in red, green and blue, worked with black tambour. Velvet tartans, with a black frise upstanding pile, are used for trimmings. |