Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27

Paris, May 27.-There is always {
Autter of excitement in Paris over a new
gown. The year might be divided int
seasons according to the gowns. Tht
Easter hat is succeeded by the spring
tailor-made dress, then comes the goWr
for going away and the nght summer
tOilettes.
Just now there is a fever over the
graduation gown and the modistes are
getting up some wonderfully pretty Gre
ations.
In Paris a school girl. even though she
be about to graduate, is still a little
girl" and her graduation dress is a sim
pie affair, all white and soft and full OF
girlishness. 1t is by no means a gown
to be worn later at receptions; 1t is too
girlish for that.
1t is only recently that Paris mamma
have allowed a c~outouriere to fashion a
graduating dress; it was made at home
by a seamstress under the Watchful eye
of mamma. Now there are coutourieres
who make a speciality Of graduating
dresses and at the same time of light
summer gowns for the school girls first
year out of school.
One of the most charming graduating
dresses was of wool crepe de chine, SO
soft and light that it was quite transpa-
rent: it was trimmed with rutties OF chlt-
fon and the sash was a crush band OF
chiffon with floating ends. This is the
type of gown. soft and light. not stl1
like the white mousseline dresses of other
wears, White muslin, unless OF very
fine India make. is scarcely used tor
graduating dresses.
1t is really surprising to see the num-
Der Of American girls among the gradu-
ates of the converts and schools: 1t is
not only the Catholics who send their
daughters to the converts of Paris to be
educated but all others as we'll; all VINO
can afford it.
Miss Fair. now Mrs. Vanderbilt, was a
pupil at q very elegant convent in Paris.
elegant because SO high priced. Miss
Letter was another. Miss Goelet. now a
reigning beauty of London, was a pupil
here and so was Miss Pauline Whitney.
Grenadine made over silk is used for
graduating dresses although it throws to
the winds all the traditions of sinlpllc-
ity: yet it is not necessarily elaborate.
A very charming %gredadine had a very
deep girdle of ~grenadine over SILK laid IN
tiny tucks. making a sort Of vest. thus
affording a pleasant relief to the plain
ness Of the waist. The sleeves We're
tucked nearly to the shoulders and there
was a vest of white silk covered with
shirred g~renadine.
The skirt was plain with the exception
of a tiny shirring around the foot, and
q double shirring down the front.
Another graduating dress was ribbon
trimmed. Its skirt Of very thin nuns
cloth, was made with a deep yoke around
the hips. Below the yoke there fell an
ruff1e to the feet. A broad |
band of white silk ribbon separated the
shirt yoke from the deep ruffle.
The waist was Of nuns cloth folded
something in surplice fashion and trim
med with bands of white satin ribbon
from the neck downward.
They make a very pretty sight, these
girl graduates, walking across the CAM
pus with the daisy chain strung between
them, their white gowns new and becom- !
ing.
Embroidery is very extensively used
upon graduating dresses. one of the pref
test styles being the ruffled skirt, the
ruffles being made of embroidered chif-
fon.
The waist consists of tiny shirrings Of
chiffon extending from the throat nearly
to the belt line.
A stole effect is produced by the hang
Ing Of an end Of the cloth from the yoke.