The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-23

iety on every woman'S part to know
what shape those summer dresses of
hers will take, and it is proper to as
sure every one that we have not yet
half done with the ruff1e. This is as it
should be for more can be don with
hounces, to make a cheap cotton dress
pretty and picturesque. than any other
esource of the d~ressmaker.
Skirts Will be shaped c~OnSeryatively
as to fullness. A spring walking suit
and a foulard of the future are both
. sketched this week, as a warning. Here
we have an 2pricot-cOlored foulard with
knife-plaited hounces running up to the
waist. A design of black flowers re-
iieves the bright saffron tint of the
silk and black net edges all the little
plaitings. One thickness of figured net
wells the waist and over all is laid a
lattice of black satin ribbon, held,
wherever the ribbon crosses, with large
jet points.
This in every respect is a perfectly
reliable forecast and attention must be
called to the fact that the foundation
skirt is cut quite Scant, not more than
three yards in measurement at the foot.
\ 5-inch band of hair cloth is set in at
the bottom, II scarcely a half dozen
small gathers appear about the waist.
The girdle and neck finish are models
for any one to follow during the next
six months Beside this arrangement
Of ruffies we are destined later to see
skirts made in the form of one deep
but not very full f%iounce, set on a hip
yoke and three founces set on this,
edged in turn with little Fittings.
Already we see pretty black taffeta
house skirts, decorated with flounces of
the same set on in panels running
from hip TO foot. or in clusters of three
narrow fittings, placed to simulate a
long pointed or rounded overskirt. Ad-
ded to these motifs in ruffiing, women
are already wearing, at the n of the
season. a scheme of houncing that
bid fair to endure straight on into
the spring. That is decorating white
silk or satin, or silk muslin dresses
with fluted edgings of black net or
chiffon or liberty silk Some really
exquisite evening toilets a W been
turned out of house manufactures,
consisting of an old white silk under
petticoat and body entirely overlaid
with white muslin flounces, each one
edged with a ruffied frill of black chif-
fon. Nothing could at once be simpler
and more elaborate; the full muslin
bodice striped. with wee black Fittings
and the white swiss sash edged with
them. Bouquets of white lilac are
usually caught on the shoulder with
such gowns as these, jet pins holding
the flowers in place and a white set
implanted fan, simply frilled Town ev-
cry stick with an inch deep LOUNGE of
dusky chiffon completes the little cos
tune.
EXTRAVAGANT FASHION.
Really, in behalf of the economical
women who cannot afford TO enrich the
ragman every ten weeks or so. when
the fashions take a lurch this way or
that, legislation should step in to
establish some one pattern or weave
of black silk as the fashion. Here it
was, as we remember, only yesterday
every woman felt compelled to buy at
least a black MORE velours skirt to
wear her fancy waists with, or who
was she, with soul so lead to the needs
OF her wardrobe, that she cOuldn't af-
ford a skirt of black silk all covered
with sprawly brocaded designs? Well,
now, forsooth, the MORE veiours. or the
plain MORE or the brocaded patterns
are utterly abhorred of the well dressed
and the manufacturers nave got out a
new black silk. 1t is a crisp watered
silk with great brocaded polka dots or
giant traingles, or long wavelike lines
running n spattered all over it. The
b%riIliancy of il is u~ndeniable, as is that
of the new evening silks, all of which
are shaded from deepest tone. to palest
tints on every breadth. They, too, are
watered and b~rocaded, and are mean
for magnificent reception, dinner and