Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05
~EVER-PRESENT BLOUSE.
THE NEW CoLoRs AND STYLES IN WHICH THIS COMFORTABLE
WAIST APPEARs-rI1E CHAMPAGNE SHADE.

Paris, July 25.-The ever-present indis-
pensable blouse keeps even pace with the
seasons in it's variations. With the real
warm summary days it appears in all
sorts of fluffy materials of the palest
shades. For the moment, "Champagne,'
a light shade of amber. holds prestige.
1t is particularly happy in effect when
powdered with strass and when strass
buttons and buckles are used laVlshly.
One of the greatest charms OF the Huffy
blouse is the novel way IN when lace
and guipure entre-deuX is introduced.
1t describes the most fantastic curves
and points on the blouse. and designs so
intricate that a novice is nonplussed at
it's possibilities as a trimming.
Then manipulating adds it's charms to
a few of the very elaborate blouses.
Sometimes the design is painted in an
all-over pattern, when it is rather deli
cate in color. On several ivory white
chiffon or gauze blouses where only Dor
ders of hand painting were used, the
brightest pomegranate and marlgold
blossoms were used in the design. and
these in all their natural vividness Of
color.
An orchid blouse in it's variations of
mauve was quite suggestive of the orchid
blossom. 1t was made with a yoke
within a yoke, both being square. The
topmost was yelled with a deep mauve
gauze bordered and incrusted with a
deeper mauve gulpure.
The second yoke was of pale mauve
gauze laid in tiny perpendicular plalts.
From there the deeper shade of gauze
was put on rather full M gathered down
into a %ceinture of dark mauve velvet
ribbon. This was finished with a long
bow drawn through a buckle of strass.
Bordering the bottom of the yoke was a
strikingly rich design in dyed guipure,
repeating the shades of mauve of the
blouse. The same designs were appliqued
on the close fitting sleeves which were
of the deeper shade of mauve gauze,
velvet matching that of the ceinture was
employed for the collar.
There is still a great demand for the
dressy white blouse which is made up
in scores of fluffy ways, with innumerable
ruches of narrow satin ribbon and entire
deux galore. To be quite successful the
white blouse must be fluffy and it should
only be affected by the slender woman.
Nothing is more hideous than a plump
figure squeezed into a tight fitting white
satin corsage where the gauze or chiffon
is scantily put on for fear of giving an
undue vOlu-minOuSness.
With a change of ribbon collars and
centuries the white blouse never becomes
tiresome. ON young woman l know VINO
rather brides herself on her taste in the
little details of her toilette changes the
affect of her white blouses in a captivat-
1ng way. At one shop she found SOM
bands Of rich old Chinese embroidery for
a mere song. 1t seems that they have
these remnants in stock always, and she
fashioned them into bretelles and a cein-
ture.
The colors in these old embroideries are
of the richest and are tempered by age
so that the effect is deliciously harmoni'
Gus and soft. At the same time the pre-
vailing tone is nOn-cOmmittal enough tt
allow the corsage to be worn with an!
shade of skirt. The very chic black anC
white blouse holds its own on all occa
sions It is seldom becoming, but thel
there are a great many women who will
ingly sacrifice the idea of becomingnes!
when there is a possibility Of attaining
chic and distingue air.
There was something quite severe blu
exceedingly modish about a black an(
white gauze bodice / saw the other day
The corsage was cut with a slight V a
the back and front. This V was filled il
with white gauze laid in tiny horizontal
plaits. This was berdered with a mar
row heavy white cotton g%uipure. The
same guipure was wrought into wonder