He threw around her shoulders the modest wraps they had carried whose poverty clashed with the elegance of ball costume explain
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The text is from the story 'The necklace' by Guy de Maupassant. This particular extract refers to when the Loisels are leaving the ball (party). It means that M. Loisel put some wraps (a garment like a shawl) around his wife's shoulders before they left the hall. It was necessary to cover her shoulders because it can get very cold in France.
The wraps however, were not expensive or of great quality. Instead they looked like clothes owned by the poor. Matilda's ball costume (party dress) however, was new and expensive. It looked beautiful, but the wraps looked miserable. So, the look of poverty that the wraps gave, was in contrast to the look of elegance that the dress had.
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