The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-30

Dutch men and women on the frozen
carals of Holland.
Pretty skating costumes from Paris
are Respondent with fur or fancy braid
and gay with silver buttons that are
in reality tiny bells, jingling out fairy
music at every motion of the weaFer.
The skirts of such suits are cut close
at the hip and somewhat full below the
knees, enabling the wearer TO move
with freedom and adding greatly to the
sum of grace. Turbans of astrakhan,
broad tail and Persian lamb are what
the smart skaters wear. These are
round cap-shaped things with a tuft of
bright feathers like a shaving brush
stuck up in front and held by pin of
| Russian silver.
Every other woman, whether her
! frock is silk or serge, has depending
| from the rear of her basque a species
of tail which is bound to excite interest
| if not applause. 1t was fully ten years
! ago that basques resigned their rear
| appendageS, but, like Mary's little
| lambs, they are back in fashion, every
one with its tail behind it. Sometimes
| the tail is a mere bunch of ribbon ends,
scarcely larger than the sort of thing a
rabbit wears; again. they are beetle
wing shaped, and fall nearly to the
knee. Coatee habit. postillion and
swallowtails are the species most fire.
| quently seen at present, and whether
they are pretty or not is another mat
ter; the tailors say they have come TO
stay.
Dressmakers give assurances all
along tlfe line that velvet dress will /
command as great popularity as last
year. A touch or two will bring them
quite up to the mode Of the moment.
and those who are having new and
very rich gowns made this year use
velvet frightened by large embroidered
l.1fe- che
is in these velvets especially that one
sees great use made of the new color
known as pigeon blood ruby, and gor-
geous color it is to be sure. On some of
the very new gowns velvet is trimmed
with velvet, and ornamental buttons, |
large and glittering, do shine out now
and again on these handsome toilets.
FASHIONS FOR NATIONS.
The middle-aged woman, who is not |
quite ready to forego all her claims to |
beauty by gowning herself permanently /
in black, and yet feels her dignity
somewhat above most of the friVOlitieS |
of such articles of dress as have been |
enumerated above, is finding a good
deal of attention given to her needs
this season. For example, a gown ad-
vocated at the theatre and calls, for a
mother of grown daughters, is of gray
green MORE, with a vest of white satin
anu d green ClOln cape ICllCNGQ ny
touches of satin. The bonnet that went
with this suit was made of forgetme-
not blue velvet, in a modified coronet
shape, with a tuft of pink roses at one
side and a little fan of tiny pure white
wings in front. Three close-set strawS
of black velvet bebe ribbon formed the
bonnet strings, for such is the fashion
Of the moment, and the yhole toilet was
a safe keynote by which any woman,
just on the shadowy side of 40, could
attune her whole wardrobe.
For house and morning gowns, the
middle-aged woman can wear a skirt
of mauve silk, having three tiny frills
at the hem, and with this a blouse of
fine white lawn over an under waist of
sky blue silk. The blouse has little
gold studs down the front, a lace stock
at the neck and rolling cuffs of lace, to
relieve any suspicious of relationship to
the younger woman's shirt waist. Such
is the costume in which a smart Paris
ian matron would receive her morning
alters, hold committee meetings at her
ouse, etc.
Black corded silk and violet velvet {
often in careful combination, are the
materials more frequently used in the !
making of gowns for brides mothers, ! !
and almost wholly to the use of the !
mi 1dle-aged woman is given the hand
some applied trimming of chenille and
jot, of which so much is seen. Good
taste, after playing truant so long. is
driving ladies with frosting hair from !
the use of the always inappropriate and
very unbecoming hat to their rightful 1
Of the small bonnet. The lit I
tie coronets made of velvet roses, or l
wreaths of jet wings, or Graduated ro- I
settles of ribbon, are without exception Z
lovely and suitable for the matrons, {
who tie them on with lace lappots,
crossing under the chin, groups Of mar
row ribbon, or folds of velvet scarce a
fourth of an inch wide and edged with i
beads. r
MARY DEAN :