The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-28

box front with black cloth or satin ac-
Gordon plated skirts the smart spring
| coaching suit calls for a white line
board bosom shirt, white linen string
tie under a turnover collar and a white
broadclOth coat having three medium
sized carved pearl buttons down the
| front. Only the last bottom button is
caught, however, and the small satin
faced REFERS are harp shaped The
merest trihe OF fulness shows in the
very center of the tail behind, all the
fulness of the sleeve is gathered into
| the armhole.
Perfection of line and exquisite nicely
of adjustment is desired in preference
to ornamentatiOn or exaggeratiOn of
any part. A costume as described calls
for snOw-white three-button dogskin
gloves and hat just as brilliant and
ffowery as can be secured. In variation
with the white coats are broad and
satin cloth jackets on the severe cut,
but in splendid shades of sapphire
blue, beryl green, pOrtwine red and
pale golden brown. They are rather
sharing the large place once wholly
occupied in the feminine heart by the
serviceable covert coat. But in proper
ton as jackets grow severer of line
the spring wraps proper lean more to-
ward all that is frou-frou in dress
making.
up numbers of taffeta silk capes after
the early Victorian model. The one
sketched is of willow green silk ecru
lace, and it's long victorian sash fronts
held at the bust, by two big rosettes
with center ornaments of cut steel.
Charming copies of this come in white
and black lace combined, and the all
important feature of every wrap is its
kerchief shape and ornamentation
made up Of narrOw-plaited frills enor-
mously multiplied. All this goes to
prove. the croaking of fashion ravens
to the contrary, that the cape-shaped
wrap is not yet to be relinquished by
womankind, and when the season gets
little farther along we are going to
see the loveliest grenadine shoulder
pieces all a1utter with frinGes of
violets, collars of peoples, or COM
pletely built of roses, with a few frills
of lace.
CAPES VS.. SHIRT WAISTS.
But this is looking too far forward
and telling the importers secrets. and
until and after Easter no smarter small
wraps will be worn for calling than
one of white satin cloth, with yoke
all of red and the shoulder fiOunce
banded with graduated widths of vel
vet ribbon. When the. first breath of a
south breeze arrives carriage women.
bridesmaids, etc, will be getting into
their bOas. made entirely of flowers:
field flowers, fuchias. lilacs, or what
not, for this is a season when it will
be simply impossible TO wear too many
blossoms and nothing but a thick
wreath of blooms, circling the neck
and falling half way to the knees, is
the sole composition of a floral boa
Various are the manifestations Of
the protean shirt waist, that has
turned up once more, with detachable
collars and cuffs made in the shape
of linen bands, over which fall. finely
plated linen frills. The frills are white
edged with one or two narrow lines of
color and TO these special shirts are
attached belts af white duck. linen or
pique very narrow, and caught in
front by small, perfectly plain steel
buckles. Here and there one finds the
tails of these ornamental little bodices
cut in scallOps. edged with embroidery
or corded, while a great deal of atten-
ton is given to the decoration with
lace of very delectable barege and
brown batiste shirts. But to so elab-
crate a point has the making of these
bodices been carried that they are
selling in the shops plain ones, in taft
fetaS of all cOlOrs, to wear under
those which are embellished with lace
and of too fine linen gauze or silk
grenadine to be worn without a silk
foundation. NINA FITCH