The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-11
ETIQUETTE OF DRESS.
WHEN AND WHERE CERTAIN ToI-
LETS ARE APPROPRIATE.
How Every Woman Can Regulate
Her Various Costumes So as Al
7 ways to BE Correctly Attired.
..Mbat are you going to wear?"

What are you going to wear?''
Oh, that perplexing query that treads
on the heels of every invitation
Whatever you wear you'll wish you
hadn't" said gay little cosmopolitan
just home from a long visit in the
smart circles of London society, in an
swer to the same question a few days
ago. Then she went on to say: ''Any-
where else but in this country an in
vitation for a particular time in the
day, breakfast, luncheon, dinner or
ball. or whatever it may be, makes de
riguer a certain prescribed toilet. But
here If you dress even for a dinner
that most formal of all social functions
the chances are that you will be the
/ only woman in decollette frock. And
as for a theatre party, the safest way
is to go in opera rig, and then put on
macintosh and galoshes so that you
can keep both extremes of the dress of
| the other woman in countenancer'
But this pert young thing eXagger-
/ ates, of course.
| It's true as preaching that our social
| life in the large cities is as yet so I'M
stable that there are no fixed formulas
| vigorously enforced with regard to dress
! for special occasions.
And Flora McFYimsy? She is hidden
to breakfast shall we say? Or a
luncheon? So far as dress is concerned
| they are identical. Or to a day we'd
ding? Ditto as to dress.
And this should be a handsome high
necked and sleeved gown with either
bonnet or a hat of equally smart APP
pearance, and gloves.
Note bene. Flora keeps that fetching
headgear on from the time she leaves
hnt. CHI 10 r.
( again. If the eating part of the func-
ton is done sitting at table, she takes
off her gloves after she sits down.
Otherwise she keeps them on all the
time
The dress may be light; it better be
of silk or have enough about it to give
a very dressy appearance, and lace and
all other rich stuffs are au fait so long
as they are adaptable to the high bod
/ ice. The fashionable sleeve now ends
oftenest at the elbow, but unless ones
forearm is very good looking ungloved
cts bad form to take off the hand of
the glove only and tuck it in the wrist
better have a handsome long sleeve.
Puckered chiffon extending to a point
on the wrist is very becoming, and not
always in the soup as a fall of lace has
a penchant for being.
If Flora is asked to assist the hostess
at an afternoon reception, she can wear
a gown half low in the neck, and it
may be as partyfied in tint and texture
as she p!eases and she must dress her
hair nattily, and tuck an ornament of
ribbon or of gold or shell therein.
But unless she assists" she must
wear a bonnet or hat, and calling tot
let, less dressy than for a luncheon, pre-
ferably stylish cloth gown with effec-
tive trimming and faultlesS fit and fin
ish
A lady should not wear a wrap into
drawing room on any other occasion
than when making a short call, never
at an affair for which cards have been
sent out. The girls who assist the host
ess about the tea table should not wear
gloves unless they live beyond the
reach of manicures. All the women
guests wear their gloves with as much
precision as their bonnets.
For dinner Flora should assume a
low-necked gown, and a pretty one. If
it is a formal function she will take her
gloves off at the table, if not she will
leave them in the dressing room. There
are women still who wear bonnets or
hats at dinner, but their names are
writ large in the debit ledger of polite
society.
For any sort of an evening party in
d private mouse IHe RUE Is lnVdrlaDIy d
party gown and uncovered head, and
gloves. Flora, when in doubt as to what
the others are going to do, will never
theless herself dress. correctly if she is
wise. There is always a happy medium
between the extremes of right and
wrong dress, but draw the line between
white chiffon and pretty pale silk if
afraid of over-dressing. Do not wear
headgear in the evening
Never? Well, hardly ever.
There is, to be sure, the theatre party.
One woman does not wish to be tho
only one with uncovered head in a
party. 1t would be in better taste to
honor ones host or hostess at a the
atre party by dressing appropriatelyl
This would mean swallow-tail coats for
the men; and in this country, for the
women, gowns the effect of which is