The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07

erly initiated gems. The first fashion
able method is to wrap a string of me-
dium-siZed beads three times close
about the dress collar, and then let one
long loop fall we'll below the waist line.
Another notion is to wind a rope of
seed pearls about the base of the collar,
and the third and newest fancy, with
a nevening dress, is to wind a string
twice round the neck and then letting
a. loop fall and pass d double twist
about the tapering waist.
In place of all the other memento
cases. of crystal and metal, the prefer
ence is momentarily accorded to the eX
heart locket. For some unexplained
reason, these fiat, round, hollow lock-
cts are not worn conSpicuously. They
are usually the receptacleS, since the
Spanish war. Of some relic that Will not
fit in a fiat locket and which is too sa-
cred to be hung outside. An oX-heart
case of gold or silver. is attached to one
end of a La Velliero chain and the
short length of chain with its jeweled
ornament. bobbing at the breast or
belt, merely denotes the hidden OK
heart case.
Embroidered Muslins.
If the top note of character in the
winter fashions was sounded by the
span-led net dress, the same effect is
embroidered muslin. 1t is everywhere
all powerful and the all absorbing
fancy Of women. OF course, from Paris
have been brought over remarkable silk
and India muSlins, elaborte with the
marvelously exquisite work of patient
needles guided by human figures, and
these costly cObwebS in lemon and or
enid. mauve and rarest green and
cream, have been made up with lace
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wealthy women.
For all that, there are lovely machine
embroidered muslins to be had for a
very reasonable price, to be hung over
tinted under dresses and to please the
most faStidiouS taste. Some of the mus
Inns are embroidered only in spots like
miniature rose windows of needle-work
others are dress patterns of white
Swiss, with Gothic traceries fretted
is not at all like that of the muslin
pierced or treated with lace of which
we saw so much last summer.
great many of the most interesting
taffeta foulards are being made up with
yoke and sleeves of embroidered mus
lin, and now and then dressmakers
have orders to make up muslin gowns
that their wealthy patrons have en-
brcidered with their own hands, or or
dered from expert needlewomen. Under
these circumstances the needlework is
done with silk in colors and rather flor
id floral patterns. or flower in various
arrangements, appearing in WreathS
and bouquets. This fashion has opened
a new resource to many women, and
gives delightful fancy work for those
who have the leisure and ambition to
own an embroidered costume.
Fashion For Little Girls.
Little girls wear their mothers gowns
in miniature. and the long, formless,
clinginS coats of the early spring are
copied in pique for tho summer wearing
Of incipient leaders of fashion The taft
feta fOulardS and the corded taffetas
brought out this spring have been ex-
actly Of the light quality and cheerful
small figuring ito render them highly
useful as best dresses for small women,
and schoolgirls have taken to overskirts
like ducks to water. Wide-brimned
straws, very literally empowered with
the gayest flowers. continue to be the
models for young folks millinery.
MARY DEAN