The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-27

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nois. With its new-found border, the
| foulard costume needs no other trim
ming, and for cool and beautiful sum-
mer shirt waists, the taffeta chinois is
sure to take the palm.
LENTEN MUFFS.
A bit of attractive frivolity that has
caught the feminine fancy is the big
! chiffon muff. 1t is black, or any rich,
| dark color you please, has ample
! fiounces on either end. and the chiffon
| is painstakingly shirred onto founda-
/ ton and lining of rich, bright satin.
/ Sometimes knot of violets, or pansies,
! or primroses is fastened on the outside,
and within the muff is perfumed like a
sachet. This ephemeral bit of prettiness
! was widely used at Dre-Lenten we'd
/ dings, and is likely to figure at those
| following Easter week.
Along with these it is as well TO
! speak of what we may expect i'll the
way of sunshades The early arrivals
| fedged chickens, having garlands of
ruffles feStooning them within and
| without. The ruffies are as often as
not of crimped liberty silk, scalloped
! to resemble rose petals and artfully
| tinted along the edges.
Silk and gauze sunshades are not only
pierced with appliques of black lace, but
/
/ of flowers or groups of fat cupids, or,
most lovely indeed, on one sky-blue
dome. was long flight of white breast
ed black-coated swallows They were
I painted large about the bottom of the
blue dome, growing smaller and small
er, until they were only specs up near
/ the ferrule Here and there white
clouds were painted in. and the whole
spread of silk was mounted on a long
malacca stick.
Much emphasis is, of course, laid
upon the stick, and in a batch of ex-
pensive parasolS such novelties have
I been noted as a gold enameled handle
having a tiny watch surrounded by
brilliants set in the very end. Another
gold and crystal handle for three inches
up is hollow, and, touching spring,
off flies the gold cap, and the empty
space is filled with smelling salts. Still
a third has a slit in its ivory shaft,
into which slips a small, gold-rimmed
! lorgnon, fastened to the handles end
by gold hinge. The price of these is
commensurate with their beautiful ma
terial and exceeding novelty, but far
more stable and quite as attractive
are the gaudily striped and checked
taffeta and Bingham sunshades. Some
of these, by the way. sturdy fellows,
with carved wood handles, are so ar
ranged that at any time the cotton
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neatly replaced again by whomsoever
may own one. An eccentricity in sum-
mer umbrellas is in the shape of a golf
driver, or brassy, rendered quite serv-
iceable on the links by the simple
scheme of buttoning a close leather
cover over the tightly rolled silk and
small ribs.
SPRING COLLARS.
Shirt waist collars would deserve
more exhaustive consideration at the
fashion chroniclers' hands did they eX-
hibit any marked variety over those we
wore last year. So far everything rolls
this spring, and a good many cuffs, as
we'll as collars, have scalloped and en-
broidered edges, or are hemstitched.
There is a fondness exhibited, by taste
full women, for wearing plain lavender
linen cuffs and collars with shirts of
lavender and white stripes. plain blue
with a checked blue and black shirt.
and so on through the category of
colors.
A slight diversity over the usual
method Is that of passing a bright
ribbon twice around a rolling linen col
lar and tying it with a neat bow behind.
In front pretty pin is caught in the
ribbon, but this has not done away with
the string tie of vivid plaid silk or
big cushion ascot made of the most
HNtly SlIlpSu SdllH, - WOTH ike q
cheerful sort of plaster across many
feminine chests.
Quaint and cool are the little lawn
bands in pale yellow, and pink, and
tan color, folded narrowly and hooking
secretly beneath the chin. and very
small accordion plated lawn bows On
the same counter with these are white
Swiss muslin scarfs, having their ar
rowhead ends embroidered in black. or
deep yellow, or bright blue flowers, this
marking one of the latest stages of the
neck scarf.
MIXED COSTUMES.
A great deal of false prophecy is be-
ing made just now to the end that
mixed costumes are to no longer be
adopted. especially of an evening a
mixed costume, which consists usually
of one serviceabie dark silk skirt or a
white MORE one, worn with a variety
of waists, is bound to be popular so
long as there are women of taste and
limited means.
1t is all very well for Mrs. Astor TO
demand skirt to match every evening
waist she wears, but this does not
really affect the great laws of fashion.
and the shops and dressmakers' show
rooms are full of evening bodices of
the newest design, to be worn with any
skirt a wardrobe may supply. A fair
example of what is new in this line is
given this week The little waist is
made of pale pink net, fiecked with
dark green velvet dots. and back ard
front the net is laid in a series of
plaits. Every plat has an edging OF
green baby ribbon, and the top of the
bodice is finished by a broad scarf of
mint green velvet, drawn through two
narrow. brilliant buckles. Mint green
velvet epaulettes, edged with net friIls
fall out over light net pufiiRgs that sup
ply the short sleeves, and on the left
breast is fastened a knot of cerise red
roses and light garlands of smiiax. The
three strings of big mock pearls tied