The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-13

all the pretty and new shades and COM
binations of color for the neck. and the
prettiest workbags Imaginable. Inc
bags were made of stiff cardboard,
round, in the shape of small poX,
and covered with bright, variegated
cretonne, in rose and other flower pat
terms, pasted on. The upper part,
which was pasted around the inner
edge, was of different-colored satin,
gathered at the top with ribbons. They
were so pretty, and as one OF the girls
said, IF you get six of these bags,
three hung on each arm, and sashes
strung over your shoulders, you look
like the belle of the ball.
It is an interesting study to note the
different uses to which the so-called
New York society girl puts her eotilllon
favorS. One girl always has some
thing ready when she hears the little
voice in the early morning say through
the crack of the door: Sister, got
anything for me? What did you get
last night?" Another girl saves them
all from year to year She came out
in society last winter, and one entire
side of her bedroom is covered with
every conceivable favor, even to an
enormous Japanese spider tied by the
neck with narrow ribbon. Thls year
she has had a rack made TO hang her
new ones on. The effect is very bright
and pretty in her room Then we hear
of still another kind of girl:
This girl rips up almost all her favors
and makes good practical use of nearly
every one. She trims her summer hats
with the artificial flowers and ribbons,
makes collars and belts of some OF
them, uses the fans, and gives some
away as presents; in fact, she asserts
that going TO a dance is great econ
omy.
The real novelties in evening dress
are seen in the skirts, and the latest
Partisan models have decided over
skirts. onen to show the embroidered
front, or the effect of an overskirt,
which is made by using two materials
to form the skirt.
White tulle, made over white satin
or taffeta silk, is the ideal gown Tor a
young girls first ball gown, and a
white satin belt, sash, and sleeves made
with two short puffs are good finish.
with tiny pink roses or chaips OF
daisies for decoration. The square-cut
low neck is perhaps the most popular
this season, but the women who have
pretty shoulders favor the round neck,
which serves better to display their
charms. Dinner gowns are sometimes
maze WIFI the SQudIc OpCtl HCNh III
front and q high back, with the becom-
ing Medici collar, richly embroidered.
but the bunch of flowers at one side
is invariably used, and they must be of
the finest quality or their mission is
lost.
Extravaganza is the rule in evening
dress, and yet this element of fashion
helps out the scheme Of remodeling old
gowns with wonderful facility, since
the old satin dress can be made quite
new by covering of net or of any OF
the gauze materials so much worn. One
very distinguished gown of white satin
has a skirt of white chiffon and an
other of black net over it. The black
silk bodice. embroidered in silver, has
a white chiffon front, tucked and edged
with lace, and oeach-colored velvet
revers at either side. Pink, in all its
prettiest tints, from peach to deepest
rose, is a favorite color for evening
wear, and most effective on the black
and white gowns. And then there are
all the rich reds and orange colors,
melting into soft yellows, and the deli
cate turquoise blue so becoming on
velvet.
Old bodices of chiffon, silk, velvet, to
wear with different skirts. are still
with us, despite all prophecies to the
contrary, and very pretty waists are
made of the new mousseline de sole
in turquoise. blue. with insertions of
cream lace set in around, instead of up
and down, which is the usual way, and
completed by a belt of blue and mauve
satin ribbon combined.
An old white satin bodice can be
made very pretty with a covering of
white net over which is another drap-
cry of yellow lace, and if worn with a
black skirt the belt may be of black
satin or velvet, or of a color which is
repeated at the neck. A very dressy
bodice for a colored cloth gown is made
of alternate bands of velvet, the same
color, and cream lace insertion of the
same width. The bands are nearly an
inch and a half wide when finished,
and are folded on either edge to form
a tiny piping. The foundation bodice
is of white silk, and the outside fits
over it plainly in the back, is slightly
frilled at the belt in front and fastens
on the shoulder and under the arm. One
band of velvet forms the belt, and the
collar is of lace with a frill of edging
at the back.