Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-17
Dresses For Summer TRAVELLING,
K o VERY LIGHT WEIGHT ALL WOOL MATERIALS IN TAIL
OR FNIsE-rRIMMED WITH BRA1Ds.

Paris, June 1.-Going away is no
longer a June matter. 1t has become so
fashionable to take summer journeys
tnat the travelling gown is donned at
1reque intervals during the summer.
Inere is Trouville to be visited and
tnere is Dinard: and then there are
the many mountain places; for SWitzer-
rand In summer is such an exceedingly
fashionable as well as beautiful place.
Ihe mountains Of Switzerland are more
1n~vigorating than the climate of any
other place and Paris women who are
Jaded with the festivity Of winter hurry
to switzerland to breathe the air. Swift
zerland at this season is very well peo-
pied with Americans and one hears fire.
quently of DR.. P%arkhurst, who has
stopped at the foot of the Matterhorn
every sumrne for years.
For the Alps one needs all wool travel
ing dresses; and these materials
come this year SO light that they are
chosen in preference t. any other.
Parties of Partisan tourists, all women,
OH Tor the mountains dressed in wool
are no sight. They
wear dresses of corbeil cloth, wool
~grenadine, tweed, wool cheviot, light
serge, wool crepe and bunting.
A conspicuous feature of the tailor
made suit is it's neatness. This has
always been it's attractive point, but it
was feared that the tailor suit would
loose its neatness if deliberately trimmed.
But, though we have the overdress eff
feet they are by no means fussy, their
being confined to braids and
bands of material.
Granite %grenadine was the material
chosen for a very pretty travelling
dress for the mountains. The granite
showed frequently a block Of the solid
color either in gray or black. There
was a speck of red and a tiny dot Of
blue in the goods, making it greatly re-
semble Scotch tweed.
1t is with reluctance that the writer
chronicles the fact that skirts are not
getting shorter. On the contrary they
seem to lengthen, for they now rest
several inches on the ground. 1t was
hoped that the Paris couturieres would
decide against the trained skirt for
street wear. but up to this date of writ
Ing they have not one Sc; and at a
recent display of street models to which
l had the good fortune to be invited at
a fashionable establishment, one might
almost say that they We're III demi-train.
Rather an innovation in a skirt is the
lack of lining. Many of the wool gren-
adines have no lining at all except a
facing Of a contrasting material around
the foot. 1t is said that these are made
to be laundered, but it is doubtful if
they will ever be treated so Familiarity.
The very fashionable five-gored skirt is
lifted closely around the hips. Around
the foot it is four and a half yards
wide; and skirts that were made mar
rover in the spring are now being widen
cd down the entire front by a new
breadth twenty-four inches wide and ex-
tending down from the waist to the
ground. The top is fitted with seams
close together. There are darts on each
hip. The plaits are invisible at the back
but are so laid that the outside seams
are perfectly flat. They widen suddenly
IN a fan-like manner about eight inches
below the band.
The sheath skirt is one so tightly fitted
Ihat 1T can have only one dart over each
hip. These are fitted on the figure as
carefully as the waist is fitted. They
are fastened either in the back with