The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-25
FASHIONABLE FANS.
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Stick Are n Charming Eccentric
ity of the Modish EvantaiI.

Fans this season are divided into the
useful and the beautiful. or. in other
words fans for bathrooms and theatres
and those for receptions. dinners, the
| opera and weddings. The first are
small. strong, sparkling with ornamen-
tation and mostly made of close-woven
gauze. ON carved wood or white bone
sticks.
The second type are grand feathered
affairs, the bigger the better and
mounted on pink pearl. Some of the
prettiest of the little fellows are black
muslin and instead of the spangles, of
which we are by the way growing a
bit tired. wildly colored beetles wings
are used in decoration. These are
snowy and Respondent and the newest
fans, of black gauze and treated after
| this fashion, are deeply notched along
| the top.
Into the notches points of white lace
are set and the result is a sturdily
useful, but very beautiful little wind
raiser. Sometimes. too, in place of
white lace. tufts of ostrich tips. or
clusters of white feather fronds are
| inserted in the notches and again loose
petaled white silk roses fill every one
of the open points in the black fan.
Whatever else you do this season
though, in selecting fan, make a
choice of something both startling and
unique, not so much in shape as in
decoration Pick out a fan of which
40 one is likely to find a counterpart
and that every woman will crane her
neck to examine, when you open it in
her neighborhood in the theatre. Ec-
centricitieS are not, of course, in good
taste and guard sticks, powdered with
jewels or set with little mirrors, have
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fashionable, but you can have fan
with a row of tiny silver bells down
the guard stick.
They are not really bells, but wee
tubes of silver, no larger than the
inside lead of a pencil and attached
to the guard stick by silken threads.
Naturally when the fan is waved about
these clash together, with a sweet me-
I'tallic sound, like fairy music. A fan
| of this kind will have perhaps only a
line of smiling, grave or fearful
mosques, slung in a row, on a ribbon,
painted over its black muslin folds.
We have not yet done, as the little
fans for this season show, with the
modes of Bourbon times and the small
gauZe eventual still has medallionS on
it, three usually, miniatures of court
beauties, with trails of tiny painted
flowers Wreathing and festooning from
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dalton fans are made of chicken skin,
or tough paper, treated to resemble
this favorite fabric of fan painters
However. the smartest small trifles of
this sort are now decorated on both
sides with elIiai care and elaboration.
Some of these have c. D. Gibson S
black and white satires on society ap-
piled to the paper tops and quite as
lovely are the paper fans with marine
scenes. The last show the outspread
wings of some big white bird entirely
covering the top and below on a blue
ground wander out troup of fishing
girls, a fleet of white yachts or train
of swallows.
They are painted. of course, on water
color paper, while the stately big fans
are still done on gauze. 1t is close
woven fabric and whatever the scene
may be it covers nearly all the space
Lace is now only introduced along the
edges, as sort of frost-like frame to
the charming pictures of love-making.
One and all these gauze fans that now
often measure 26 inches across when
open, are mounted on plain polished
pink pearl sticks.
From the waist they are meant to
hang by a sort of rosary of gaily cut
beads, and one American maker of
fans is mounting them on sticks of