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Show I r if. ii -.?.' 'ift imir i ! n'"iu virj,vmt ,, .-o-i "the ballet "skirt. tt X a Fussy Prilled Petticoat and 3ISJ Bo Adapted to Ordinary Wear. The fussy frilled petticoat known as ! the ballot skirt is now worn by fashionable fashion-able women under evening and dancg gowns, but nearly reaching tho ground. First, therG is a oloso fitting yoke of muslin, which is out in four parts and reaches well below the average corset and very much below the fahort corset worn for skirt dancing. On to this yoke is set in frill gathers or fiat plaits a wide skirt of tho muslin, edged with a frill of laeo put on slightly full. This okirt reaches from the yoko to tho full iepth required, and over it at the B hue another skirt is simulated by a deep frill, also edged lace, and put on sc Jhat tho bottom edge is half an inch above the edge of the under lace, thus giving an extra full and ample effect When worn, so wide is this skirt that it gives the appearanco of a multitude of lace petticoats, and the dancer usually usual-ly catches tho center with a safety pin or a few stitches about 10 or 12 inchea below tho yoko and practically converts It into a divided skiit. These ballet skirts aro also inado for ordinary wcai La dark silk. |