The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19

as smart a little Revolutionary toque
as need crown any head.
..One ] saw this afternoon deserves
telling about, because the girl who wore
it, wore also so sweet a little calling
gown that | followed her for a half
\ dozen blocks in order to take in every
\ detail. The frock was a soft satin
surfaced cloth of deep rich mulberry
color that is bound sooner or later to be
as popular as fiuette blue once was.
Her skirt was slit open from hem to
some distance above the knees in front
TO show an under dress of beaver
brown velvet picked out in tiny jet
worked figures. Her short waist open
end in front to show fiat vest and
collar of the brown similarly decorated,
and ! can assure you that this study is
quite the most piquant thing I've seen
IN two months. What went with this.
in her pearl gray suede clad hands,
was big huff of the creamiest grebe,
and her toque had a crown of mulberry
velvet, brim of one roh of grebe.
dashing white plume fastened by some
invisible agent directly in the front of
her crown and big bow of cream
colored antique velvet adjusted a little
above the brim TO the left side.
That hat. I'll wager, was her mill
liners supreme inspiration. and yet
my fingers positively ache to lay hold
on some boarded scraps in an old hat
box and test my abilities at copy of
the enviable little trifle. Mine shall be
black velvet in the crown, band of
brown pheasani's breast about the
brim, a brown plume up the middle
and bow of turquoise blue velvet to
one side. for a slavish copy of a really
good hat is quite a despicabie trick in
my eyes.
Embroidered Effects.
This gown and a number of other
good ones l saw this afternoon, while
on my tour of investigation. convinced
me of the Importance of having my
new calling suit made up with an
overskirt and adorned literally with
dome embroidered effects. L see en-
broidered cloths piled on every counter,
but more persuasive argument is that
they are in actual wearing.
For what / am going to have in the
way of visiting suit / got all my
most helpful suggestions from a capti-
waiting French costume, worn by a
blonde Boston beauty at Mrs. White
law Reds committee meeting. Hers
was spinach green Venetian cloth.
The overskirt was cut up in scallops to
show an underdress of the same goods
and color, but picked out in small
sprays embroidered in cream silk. The
sleeves OF her coat waist and its fronts
were decorated to match the under
dress, and the stitchings and touches of
black Persian lamb completed the
harmonious whole. ! noticed that the
pretty Bostonian had discovered the
virtues of the new toque, and that she
wore her muff on fine gold chain
strung at intervals with tiny ex-
quisitely colored agate marbles. Some
of them were round, some quite oval
and some shaped like little beans.
Sleigh Bell Buttons.
1T grieves me to the heart to see
how woefully elaborate what the tail
ors call our street gowns are becom-
ing. Every woman one sees is a geo.
metric study in stitchings, and if she
lays the least claim to style her skirt
plated underdress and her waist has
and stitched again. OF course it is |
graceful and all that, but .
ina CINE trying TO hold all those willful |
pleats out of the dust and preserving a |
iignified unconcerned expression at the |
same time. Apropos of a recollection of /
a sweet gray cloth froek. My best !
friend has just come home from her |
tailor's. i must warn you that buttons |
are cropping out everywhere, like |
after a summer shower. |
Big silver sleigh bell shaped buttons /
were what the man of modes put on |
the skirt and waist of my friends !
frock, and l must confess they did |
end a great deal of character to the |
costume" MARY DEAN.