The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-22

more exquisiteIy modish one can do
than dare wear a pair of siX-button
burnt orange suedes. stitched and but
toned with silk and pearl, to exactly
match the brilliant skin. To do this
requires courage, too, for it is only the
young, the fair the clear OF skin and
iimpid of eye who can presume to stand
the test of such close association. She
who has a complexion less delicate
than a June rose had best make herself
content with the more helpful and
caressing tones of blue, etc, while a
gray-haired woman should avoid burnt
orange as carefully as tropical travel
ers steer clear of the deadly upas tree.
With all the pitilessness of an electric
search light, it fiaunts in public gaze
every wrinkle, and gives gray hair
a peculiar dry. dead appearance that
no Self-venerating woman can relish.
Strangely. too. burnt orange is not a
color the brunette should adopt, or
even permit herself the slightest asso-
citation with. It takes all the color
from an olive complexion, and even
sheds a gray. unwholesome tint over
the youthfullest brown cheeks. Par eX-
cellence burnt orange belongs to the
bright blonde. to the blue-eyed women
or TO those glorying in chestnut hair
and milk and carnatiOn cheeks. These
daughters of the northern gods know
Littl cifAH 4 l4Ae4S-S- anu a us9lA7 liz
brilliant color on their hats, dash it in
as collars girdleS. revers, tucked Jokes.
shirt waists. etc. with dark gowns. and
one pink and white and gold beauty,
who is 10 make her debut at Newport,
will wear mirror velvet gown of burnt
crp nre. ~olieved only by cream laces
and pearls.
There is A distinct tendency among
the women who make dress and its
perfection the study of their lives, and
who. therefore. are the selected leaders
of fashion, to get the broad color effects
in their wardrobes to harmonic with
the colo: that predominates in their
own visages. For example, there is a
marked preference for gray among
those on whose hair the hand of Time
has. prematurely or otherwise. been
laid. Blonde young women. at the first
spring functions, held indoors or out
by night or day. wear a conspicuous
amount of yellow, and the raven
haired brunettes have only just dis
covered a fact. which portrait painters
have always been aware of. that in
black they looked their best. The dark
browed fashionables enliven their SOM
bre silks and tissues with blue. in any
one of the IS new popular tones, and so
do the nun-like, gray-haired women.
But this record of the kaleide-
scopic movement of the modes
Moull W all iilNOiiplGNG Al
stress was not again laid on the stead
lily growing fondness for white A
month ago a word was dropped about
this. since when the wearers of white
have been rapidly recruiting their
ranks. At the early spring luncheons,
breakfasts. weddings and such high
noon festivals the white silk. satin and
orocade gowns, not to speak OF the
white embroidered silk gauzes, crepes,
ETC. made a most striking appearance
At some Of the weddings given recent
". the province of the bride ard her
maids was so invaded by the guests
that one relative from the country
went home in the firm conviction that
her cousin had some 40 supporters at
the altar: for just that number of
women attended her rec option in cos
TUNES fit for the bridal cortege. Up to
this moment only the women of great
wealth have attended luncheons in
white brocades. high necked and short
sleeved. garnished with lace and ac-
conlpanied by pearls, white plume
loaded hats and shoes OF white glace
kid The effect is one of great richness
and such eXtravagant splendor that ii
cannot but be admired, envied, and I'M
happily enough copied. by those of less
means and less social pretension.
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If anyone should ask a leading mo-
diste whittier we are drifting, she
would not hesitate to say that the
whole current of fashion is setting so
strongly in the direction of the princess
gown that by next autumn II VIII be as
dominant a rule of dress as the Span
ish fiounce is now, or the pouched
basque front has been. 1t requires u
whole months from the date of its in