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FANCY DRESSES DESCRIBED.
ABESSS, LADY. (See Nun.)
ABIGAIL. White silk skirt covered with green trelliswork interspersed with flowers of all colours. Tunic turned up en laveuse and lined with jonquil silk; bodice trimmed with jonquil and dahlia colour, also the muslin cap; jonquil silk stockings; dahlia shoes, with buckles.
ABBRUZZI PESANT. Low white embroidered linen chemisette; scarlet stay bodice cut very low; short stuff gown, white muslin apron; white lace veil fastened to the head with gold pins. Coral and bead ornaments. Hair worn in a coil. Suitable to a dark woman.
ACADEMICAL DRESS. (See Portia; and Princess, Tennyson). Long silk academical robe; white, black, red or other colour, plain or brocaded, worn over a plain skirt and bodice. Academical cap.
ADRIENNE LECOUVREUR. (As worn by Madame Bernhardt.) Two Louis XV. costumes, one with paniers. and draperies of ivory satin and pale blue satin bordered with roses; the other after a portrait of Madame Pompadour, rose coloured and blue satin dress, train of brocade, the ground silver-grey, strewn with garlands of eglantine.
ÆSTHETIC MADIEN. (See Maidens, Lovesick, from Patience)
AFRICA. Short skirt and bodice made à la vierge of white Algerienne material, trimmed with cross-cut bands of yellow
