The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-12

rose colored taffeta, a meadow green
canvas requires a cornf1ower blue basis
in order to acquire the purple luSter SO
sought after; contraryWiSe a Yale blue
bunting calls for a clear lettuce green
underskirt, and a pearl gray petticoat
usually goes under any goods of a pur-
pie tone. Black wool grenadines, voiles
and such like, are cast over with silk,
else an undermining of white silk, cross
barred with black, is employed. This
last device is remarkably effective, and
&c mathematician has yet been found
expert enough to count the number of
black and white hats, as well as gowns,
that are this moment in active wear.
To tell the truth, about once in every
two years black and white becomes a
positive obsession with the fashionable
women. 1t is one of the only. striking
contrasts which every one of Ewes
daughters can wear with satisfaction
to herself and her fellow man and wom-
an. Strong and steady all season has
been the market in black and white
hats, and the very most modish thing
a woman can do just now is to wear
white hose into which black lace clocks
or front panels have been set. These
are for evening white while the top
notch of smartness is reached in the
white hose finely striped in black.
A WORD ABOUT CoRSETS.
A mighty piece of machinery, built
Of bones and steel and cording, and
heavy contille, a sort of warriors cui-
rasse, fit to resist bullets, was the stay
of other days. With this medium for
torture, womankind has been faithfully
trying for years to commit a sort of
legitimate hari-kari against her life
and loneliness; therefore the end of this
century will be bright forever, in the
history OF feminine dress, as the epoch
in which the grand and glorious refor-
nation in figure building was begun.
Just take up a fashionable stay of 1888
and lay it beside the proper supporter
of 1898. Why, it's like putting a f1f-
teenth century mailed gauntlet beside
CANT de suede of the nineteenth.
About ten inches of length has been
Topped off the old body crusher, its steel
fangs have been drawn, its tough, hot,
contille hide is now reduced to plant
sateen, and its nightmarish contours
have been forced into compliance with
the outlines of the human frame. A
soft, dear, dainty thing is the little
corset of reformation. 1t fits about
the figure like the restful clasp of
maternal hands on an infantile body,
and by giving the hips and bust their
proper freedom, it enhances the svelt-
ness of the waist, without in reality
it. More than all, it has
taught women to prize what is known
as the main line of grace. This line
used to be absolutely lost sight of,
during the reign of the old corset,
when the shape of them forced the
body to curve in below the chest. 1t
was this very curve that shortened
the waist and produced what is COM
monty known as corset dyspepsia.
With the advent of the short, soft stay,
the bend below the chest has been
done away with. Now the aim and
object OF every woman is to have an
absolutely straight front line, running
from the chest to a point two inches
below the level of the hips. This is the
new line of beauty, the line that the
Venus of Milo's superb torso shows
and that not only adds to the grace
and health of feminine kind. but
lengthens the average waist line by an
inch and a half. All honor then be to
the new corset.
GRECIAN GRACEFULNESS.
That is a goal toward which fashion
seems to be setting. Greek modes are
in all the new tea gowns,
lounging robes, etc, and in the new
coiffures. Many effectively pretty even
ing gowns of the simpler sort are, cast
m IOno flowing lines falling oh