The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-20

New York, June 1t is really time
to talk of ginshams, though two weeks
ago women with the best stocked ward
robes were yearning after the contents
of their safely stored winter trunks,
laid away TO sleep their long Sleep in
cGmphor and newspapers. But at last
wash goods, shirt waist and sailor hat
weather has arrived. and the importers,
Who track fashionable women to their
most secret Businesses, are setting off
for the watering places to display
exquisite novelties in French cotton
gowns, along with special make-ups of
their own
Now, 10 the Partisan mind the term
Bingham does not necessarily suggest a
Gallo taste insists that on cotton
foundation any material may be
grated, and that Bingham is neither
truly smart nor equal TO long, arduous
wear unless ii is based on silk; there
fore, when "a really pretty French cot
ton is purchased a gown suitable for
use on the most stately occasions is the
result. 1t can be worn 10 calls,
luncheons, lawn parties, country we'd
dings, when coaching, driving and at
tending church, and at the end of the
season II Will probably require a clean
ing, and not a visit to the laundress.
In consequence of this notion the
Partisan dressmaker can get up some
very elegant little toilets. She gives
them all thin taffeta understands and
does not hesitate to trim them with
lace, velvet, the most scientifically
pretty silk gimps and spangles of lisse
neck decorations. Many are shown
with accordion plated skirts, and a
favorite fancy is 10 initiate, with vary
ing widths of satin ribbon, the braid
ing now so popular on all petticQats.
But whatever else the scheme of deco
ration displays, it must not fail to ac-
centuate great brilhancy of coloring.
This early in the season was the SOL
emn trade from Paris and theaman-
date has been successfully carried out
on our side. To aid the good cause the
manufacturers have turned out the
majority of percales, ginghams. lappets
and prints in handsome vivid back
grounds of radish red. army and alsa-
tian blue puppies ranging from the
deepest iris 10 the Dalest violet, Chi
nese yellow and peacock green bearing
wide and narrow stripes and checks in
white and black, big and little polka
dots or clusters of crescents, darts, rib
bon figuring, rings and sprays, all in
some sharply contrasting tint.
On SucQ FOUNDATIONS are HcdDeQ the
gayest of ribbons, an abundance of en-
broidery, and, in consequence, some
thing like close relationship is main
tanned with the frivolous summer hat.
A fine departure in the way of cotton
novelties has been made by the change
able Bingham. and it is to be recorded
that very little lace is to be seen on the
strictly wash dresses. Embroidery is
all-pervaiding, the white lawn and
t,4 icta adc and Inserting
taking precedence. worked in two,
three, or as many as five different
colors. Naturally the greater number
of colors employed the more expensive
the material but none the less it is
lovely and desirable.
MAKING COTTON DRESSES.
But to turn to-. the practical side of
things, which is the making OF these
suits Where French examples in the
use of silk are followed, the skirts are
usually made ON a separated founda-
ton, and something near the proper
tions of a fad has arisen for cutting
out the neck of the waist, to show
yoke of contrasting color. Here ana
there a very pretty overskirt appears
Ruffles up TO the waist and Vandyke
points on the hip are still in good
grace, and last Introduction is that
of running tiny ruffies up the back
widths only fronl1WaiS TO hem-
Now an overskirt is no inconvenience
when cut after the fashion showed in
the sketch on the striped red and white
gown. This is a Bingham in the new
hard bright color called radish red.
The under petticoat is solidly tinged as
the skin of a freshly plucked radish,
and the top drapery. falling in three
points, two in front and one behind.
is widely barred with white bands.
The sleeves illustrate a new interpre
tation of the mousquetaire, for they
are of solid red above the elbow, with
striped puffs falling over what looks
quite like the wrinkled length Of a
pair of radish-colored gloves. A
pouched bodice of the striped goods is
gathered about a yoke of the solid
color, and this constitutes almost an
ideal wash suit. 1t is adapted almost
exclusively to the slendeTly built wom-
an, but there is not a whalebore used, !
the skirts need no sham, and on these