The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-26
THE "MAkESHIFT" SEASON.
Time Arrives When Summers Draperies
Need Renovation.

| garments and too late for summers
costumes, says the Chicago Chron-
| icle.
1t is only when the first crispness is
gone out Of ones dresses that one re-
| sorts to makeshift.
| The crisp lawn is now soft and limp
| and you are glad to dress 1t up with a
| bolero of lace and vest of soft null.
| The front Of the skirt, which has a way
| of looking weatherbeaten, is treated
| to Spanish fiounce. Two yards of
! lace yard wide will make an italian
/ flounce. Gather the lace along the up
| per edge, sew it upon the front breadth
| of your skirt, fasten it at each side
| with delicate passementerie of bead
| ed lace and you have an italian
flounce.
The null which was so smooth and
soft In June is now reduced to state
| characterized as "slinky." and very
draggled it looks, dispirited to the point
Of self destruction.
| You want, of course, to make it
smart and you can do it with the ap-
| plication of numerous narrow bands of
ribbon sewed on one above the other,
| an inch apart, regular and fiat. The
narrow ribbon trimming is wonder
| full renovator for null. 1t is so stiff
| fleming and body-giving.
| The smartest ruching of ribbon was
| worn by Saratoga girl the other day
| at a lawn party given at an hour when
| day fades into dark.
The ruching was made of that shade
of white ribbon known as pearl white.
| 1t is almost a cream, but not quite.
| The ribbon was of taffeta, as wide as
your finger is long. Two pieces of the
| ribbon were laid together and run
down the middle in way to make
shirring after the thread has been
pulled taut.
This can be picked out with the fling
| ers into a very smart ruching, which,
| when fastened, can be swung around
the neck like boa. Fastened to the
| left shoulder and brought down under
| the belt, and so carried down to the
| hem Of the skirt, it is effective and be-
| coming Such ruching has a genius
for wandering over the soiled parts of
the gown, covering them as with
| mantle.
Little odds and ends of all sorts are
now much sought. The parasol that is
| torn lis now covered with rows and
| rows of lace alternate with ruffies OF
| taffeta obtained from torn taHeta
skirt.
Never throw away a particle of silk
no matter how i'll used. for at the last
| of the season it will come in good for
| something.
| Are you embroidering a taffeta? No,
| then so much the pity, for you could
| not be- in the Newport swim. At the
| city by the sea every other woman you
! see is holding a strip of silk of some
| sort, taffeta, India, China or gros grain.
| and Is drawing her fancy threads
J through it, And such fanciful designs!
| Great punches of flowers of all the col
ors are boldly brought out by the need
les which drags it's thread after 1t.
| 1t is whispered that in off hours the la
| dies maid is called into service to work
upon the bouquet, for the needle drags
| much too slowly to accomplish much.
| But the point is that the work Is be-
coming and the embroidered silk is
| fashionable, SO with this duo or tacts
| there can be ne let or hindrance to the
| daily task.
| A lining of very fine cashmere is ap-
pearing, which is used very discreetly
| inside the skirt for the entire depth
! from the waist line. The cashmere
gives the necessary cling to the limbs
and makes the skirt willowy and even
| draggy.
To quote the old-fashioned woman
again. these skirts are too "clingy" to
| suit all, and for such there Is the llght'
silk-lined skirt, but the woman VINO Us
both very fashionable and very rat VIII
choose the cashmere lining; so also the
girl who Is aesthetic to degree and
would emphasize her long leanness 10
an inquiring world.
One is always interested in the new
colors for fall; some of them may be IA
miliar to you now, for in spite OF the
edict that they should be kept dark
until September, they have come out
gradually. One is. sky blue, just the
| color of the curious small dog, after
whose hair the color is named SKY
blue is a changeable color, and is seen
mostly in melton cloth; it looks blue
in one light-drab in another.
The new gray is ocean gray, Just the
color of the ocean on CLOUDY day'
| when you wonder If there was ever
any blue in 1t, and suddenly discover
the blue lurking in the depths. The new
white, for there is white ladies' cloth
! offered for fall wear, Is dove white, ana
doves, you know, shade toward cream.
| Then there is a turquoise white, SO
very blue that that you are tempted TO
call it blue, but for the lack of name
for a blue pale enough.
If you doubt the existence In the dii-
ferences of the shades of color just try
to match your strings of pearl oeads
| with a pearl passementerie OF white,
and you will see how widely whites
differ. Dealers say it is almost as I'M
| possible to match white beads as W
match the blacks in a black cloth dress,
and you know how hard that is; now
one will look red in spite of your Ell
forts to keep it dead and now another
will look gray, though you hlde II lroi'i
| the sunlight.
Hats are still tipped-"giddy" you are
| tempted TO call them. The rough-and-
ready straws are now being trimmed
with ribbons and plumes and the flow
| ers are ripped off and lald ASIDE LOT
| next June.
You can scarcely use too much ribbon
upon your millinery. Ribbon is heaped
at one side, in big loose bow, without
| loops or ends apparently, Just shlr-
| ring from the center, and silk is caught
| in a great swirl which, planted upon
| side of the hat, serves to trim it.
| Don't be bashful with your bows.
| Stand them boldly on top, pull out the
| ends and edges and remember that rib
| bon is the thing.
Mrs. Potter Palmer has hat trim
| med with the new rosewood red silk;
Miss Grant has hat, parasol. hat and
| gloves of pastel blue; Mrs. John Jacob
| Aston has a gown of saffron taffeta,
| trimmed with black, and there are
| dresses of turquoise, sapphire, anne
/