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Show Picturesque Note. Even in the matter of tailor-made gowns a certain picturesque note asserts as-serts itself this season, the severity of the coats, for example, being very frequently softened by the introduction introduc-tion of frilled jabots of net and lace, emphasizing the Directoire style in which the collars and revers are cut. The coats themselves, too, show a very becoming fullness, both back and front, above the curved lines ol stitched strappings with which sc many of the basques are finished. The fabrics which are employed for some of these tailor-made gowns are in themselves exceedingly picturesque and far more decorative than the smooth cloths and fine serges which have been used hitherto for gowns oi this description. |