The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-05-25
FASHIONS AND FLOWERS

Fashion, in its mysterious council
chamber, has deoreed that flowers
shall this coming season be worn ia
unheard OF profusion; that hats shall
be wreathed with flowers as much as
with feathers; that the spills of the
ostrich farm 1.-THE tropical woods, and
the home countries shall almost en-.
tirely give place to flowers of muslias
and gauzs, satin and velvet, for bon
nets; that bonnets shall not only be
trimmed but portions thereof be
made solely Of clusters of such, bios
SONS; that every costume, except the
simplest morning tr0tteuSe, shall have
its accompanying posy; that parsols
and sunshades, 6chus and fans, as well
as the attendant regiments of toilet
accessories, baskets, and pin-cush-
ions, sachets, and glove-boxes, shall
all be decorated with flowers. So
long as the fancy is confined to the
dressing-room there is nothing to say
against it, but when decorative plants
with waxened leaves and imitation
flowers supply the place of real,
wholesome, perishable plants and
flowers in the draWing-room vases
and iardinieres, then artistic taste,
stepping in, places its veto upon it.
| know nothing more vexatious to
the eye than this artificial gardening,
and the more nearly it approaches
perfection the greater the disappoint-
ment. To see from q distance q
superb bowl of roses and to fiud on
close inspection that they are merelq
vulgar caricatures OF one OF natures
most exquisite productions, causes the
very unpleasant sensations of fraud
having been practised Oh our sense Of
sight, and makes the cIeverly-manu-
featured blossoms simply odious.
Leaves tSat need no nurture but that
of the busting brush lose all their
beauty, since their very existence is
falsehood.
A great deal may be urged in favor
of real flowers as evening decorations
for the hair and bodice. English
women understand thoroughly the
advantage of wearing real flower ard
indulge in the luxury more freely
than the Parisians, who are always
haunted by the ghost of a withered
possibility in the close OF the evening.
when all the bravery of the earlier
hours will be reduced, like Cinder.
elias coach, to a handful of decsying
vegetables. We live in an artificial
age, and our evening pleasures are
taken IN an overhested atmosphere
that is injurious to our own lungs and
fatal to the beauty of real flowers.
For woman to attempt to wear hot.
house blossoms al an Elysee ball, for
instance, would be rash. For such
occasions and for others OF an
equally toIrid description, it is best
to make q wiser choice, but not for
the daily constitutional, the afternoon
visit, or dance, the dinner. or early
evening party. Fleuristes have done
what they can to make the substitu-
ton as agreeable as possible, while
they have produced, for the use of
milliners, collection of floral orna.
ments that earn an easy pardon, by
the harmony OF their colors and the
capabilities of their component parts
to render in appearance the proper
texture. Velvet is cuDningly COM
bined with satin in the manufacture
of pansies and wallfowers, sweet
peas and nasturtiums, the shading of
each petal being worked in by hand;
the glossy brilliancy of the buttercup
or cowslip, OF the byacinth or the
crocus, can only be translated by
satin, whereas a plush-like down is
given 10 the stamens of big daisies,
the corolla of the narcissus, and the
daH0dil. These, with roses, Yiolets,
lllacs-White and tinted-forget-me-
nots, the clustered flowers OF certain
shrubs, are by far the most fashion.
able. Spring blossoms, especially,
are acceptable by reason of their
seasonsbleness for there is method
even in the madness of fashion.
Consequently a large majority are
yeIloW-the spring color par excel
lence. Yellow on black is an
old and accepted contrast, the
black in this case being lace on chip.
Golden colored flowers are also
placed on brown bronze, on myr-
tle-green. on dark blue.-Paris Cor.
London Telegraph.