The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-04

New York, April. 1Ss7-The instinct
i've good taste of the American woman
in matters of dress has never been
more clearly shown than this season,
when her Partisan sisters, especially,
whose footsteps are usually a safe
guide in questions of the toilet, have
gone quite astray over the brilliant
come over box after box, during March,
filed with delectable hats, worked out,
with but few exceptions, in the most
burning, eye-dazzling tones on scarlet,
cardinal red, warm vermillion and
vivid rose. The straw, flowers, ribbons
and plumes all partook of these startl
| ing. flaming tints. They were, indeed,
wonderful, and in their eccentric way
almost lovely, but with the rarest ex-
ceptions the miIliners have had to copy
these fiaring models in more refined
colors, preserving, of course, the style
of the Partisan hat.
All this proves that it will require
something more than the cachet of
Paris and the approval of princesses to
force the most daring American woman
to wear a headpiece that will excite
public comment and smiles. OF adj
miration she can be very sure if her
choice for April wearing falls or one of
the Rembrandt shapes; its brim, built
entirely of viOletS or hyacinths, or
what are prettily called shattered roses,
and the crown wrought of brilliantly
Sequined straw. This combination is
the smartest tribute to Easter glories
the milliners have made yet, while
anything in the way of an Easter bon
net is sure to be green. A handful of
green leaves, with a knot of fragile
looking blowaways directly up in front,
is the sort of thing the women who
carry fat pocket books are buying.
SUMMER FOOTWEAR.
1t is a long reach perhaps from hats
co shoes, but just at the moment, next
to the Importance of browning her
head, every conscientious shopper is
actively deciding the Wherewithal she
shall be shod for the six months TO
come. Shoes assuredly are at once the
American woman's strong and weak
point, for we make, do not import, the
smartest, sensiblest foot gear in the
world. and a lady with neat, slim,
high arched little pair of extremities is
to be pardoned if she is very dainty as
to their coverings. Like wise virgins
and matrons our daughters and wives
are almost emancipated from pointed
toes, beveled soles and buttoned foxing.
The honest, broad, solid, square-heeled,
blunt toed. Dicadilly shape is first for
walking, first for shopping and first in
all outdoor athletic exercises. More
over the bicycle and golf habits have
made the lace shoe essential and now
nearly universal. The dominant walk
ing boot for this season laces rather
high on the calf, has fiat, not a spring
toe, a boys heel, and unless very
highly dressed half weight calfskin is
used, dull dongola. trimmed with bright
dongola, is considered the most discreet
selection.
TIES AND TRIMMINGS.
The trimming is applied to the vamp,
not in broguing, but what the shoe
makers term an applique of leather,
and only a misguided woman buys her
dongola or calfskin boots with patent
leather toe caps. The entire vamp of a
shoe must be of vanished leather, if
any is worn, and this bright, hot ma
terial is only to be used this summer
on ties and boots for carriage occasions.
These are rather gay bottines, but
toned, with clear sapphire blue satin
cloth foxingS, tall military heels and
rounding toes, that show thin but
extended sole.
One and all the smart street ties are
of dark brown Russia leather, or an eX-
cellent imitation of it, and, in quality,
as cool and light as dongola- There is
nothing new to tell of their shape save
that the Piccadilly form predOminates, !
and that all the trimming is done in a
darker shade of brown vanished
leather, on the toes, at the top about
the ankle, and the heels are highly
polished to accord. Pale brown or the
true pigskin shoe, in the cOlOrs we once
knew it, are set aside for this sober
shade that accords beautifully with !
the new and friskily tinted hosiery,
which verify sparkleS and daZzles in |
sympathy with the hats.
The woman with a foot las is foot /
is the one who will be a joy to herself |
and to admiring friends in the new dim /
ner and reception slipper. Only slight /
and very dainty footed woman can
wear it, and because of its unusually /
tall heel it is out of the question for /
dancing. Mary of Lorraine it is called, J.