The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-12
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Already the successful caterers to
those who follow in fashions rain are
beginning to talk of spring and sum-
mer goods, and even when the storm
king is holding court, our merchants
must expose side by side with cold
defying fur fabrics of almost gauze-
like texture for gowns for mid-sum-
mer wear, so the ~up-to-date woman eX-
poets with the advent of the new year
an assortment of new cotton materials
from which to select her warm weather
frocks.
Undoubtedly the most popular fabric
will be a silk-warp "barege," the pride
and delight of our grandmothers' sum
mer wardrobe. We all know that the
texture is that of a closely woven
Brussels net, and the beauty of the
old-time material has not been de-
stroyed by modern designs. The pref
test pieces displayed are those with
dark grounds, strewn with quaint pat
terms in the real old broche colorings.
Some daintier pieces have light
grounds, lowered in natures own
tints. The satin-striped French challies
are also new and charming. The
stripes are about one-quarter of an
inch wide and three inches apart, a
large floral design being distributed
over the entire surface. One partic-
ularly pretty piece has a blue ground,
strewn with figures in a darker tint
of blue.
Challies in foulard designs viii be
fashionable. Some of these have white
grounds, relieved with blue figures,
while others show large white designs
thrown Upon a background of blue.
A figured dotted Swiss in colored
stripes alternating with a floral de-
sign is a distinct novelty, sure to win
favor with the daintiest of summer
maidens.
The new organizes are strewn with
posies, so natural in tints that one
seems to almost inhale heir fragrance.
The majority of the designs are as
graceful as possible, and instead of
being punched the blossoms are in
tiny shower clusters" with single
roses and violetS seeming to fall away
from the cluster as if they had been
shaken out. Striped nainsook, woven
with vari-colored stripes, forming
plaids. wins an exclamation of praise
from every shopper, while the exquis-
tie dimities are calculated to witch the
heart out of every woman who loves
daintiness to predominant in her sum
mer dresses.
The general tendency is to discard all
stiff interlinings on the newest gowns.
This does very we'll where one can
afford a crisp taffeta silk lining in each
Kew dress, but when this is not pos
sible not a few women are protesting
against the use of nothing but a soft
finished p~ercaline lining, with no sort of
interlining added even as a facing.
They argue, and justly so, that a skirt
SO finished has q lank, u%nstylish APP
Especially if OF soft wool
fabric, after the So recent vogue of
interlined u~ndulating skirts with a
crisp fare and a certain cachet wholly
absent in the soft-lined model whose
folds or breadths fall limp around the
feet like those of a Quakeress. There
are a number Of fashionable modistes
who have come to the rescue in this
matter. They have made an underskirt
nearly as long as the dress skirt, en-
ploying crinoline, hair cloth, moreen,
etc. as may be preferred, for the foun-
dation. This skirt can be covered with
silk of some dark shades, and if well
cared for will last a long time. This
skirt is gored on the front and sides
with a deep fiounce at the bottom, and
the three or four shirred or box-pleated
ruffies at h back are run through the
inch-wide hem at their edges with a
single band of feather bone. Worn
under the dress, all the slightly faring
effect of an interlined skirt is given.
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Very lovely are many of the severely
cut velvet gowns made ready for the
new year and all its attendant fes-
tivities. They Ia a regal magnif-
cence all their own, and with but a
rare valuable lace and a very
few well-seiected jewels the effect of
such a gown cannot be surpassed. The
lace need not be cut if very choice.
it is now permitted to drape il
temporarily with a few deft-hidden
stitches and some rich jewelled lace
pins. If these pins are real gems suit
in color and not aggressive in ap-