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Voile Evening Frocks.

Welcome news just now—when every penny has acquired tremendous value and when we are all so “hard up.” Yet we still desire to look attractive. Though the financial systems of the universe may crumble before our eyes—we will not change one atom—indeed we never have from the days when our moneyless sisters chose flowers from the forests to deck their hair and wove entrancing skirts from soft green leaves.

In London and Paris just now can be seen everywhere, at fashionable night clubs, week-end parties, gay “salons”—girls waltzing gracefully clad in alluring frocks of voile! No costly silks nor shimmering satins—but the effect is charming, because the blending of colours and the tout ensemble of fresh simplicity has been carefully studied. Many of London's smartest girls have abandoned stockings and appear coolly with slim brown ankles in a hot ball-room.

The most fascinating effects can be obtained from voile—and your evening frocks will be cheap enough to allow two or three in the place of one! Each of course, must have its slip. Your skirt shall be flared and almost to the ground, your waist high, and your little top sleeveless, and close-fitting. A coatee, also of voile, will be useful and transform your dance-frock into one suitable for afternoons. Now we can all indulge in a feast of gay, soft, floating voile.