The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-19
Latest Styles for Fashionable Folk.

Written for the Sunday Standard
The blouse, believe me, is no longer
merely beautiful. 1t is now superla-
lively so, and will of surety never die
while the talented and enterprising
constructors thereof have for their
moduS Operandi the present wide range
of decorative detail. Almost it might
seem as If we could go on to the end of
time with such means as are at pres
ent afforded us. When we weary of
stitching in straight lines we can re-
sort to waved and SO on by natural
stages to geometrcal twistings and
turningS; and, as everyone knows, the
history of geometry is never told.
Waved stitched bands, again, offer
unstinted opportunity for the ingenious
mind to ring the note of change and
variety Also many and divers are the
fancy for erecting an entrance, though
in point of general preference the left
side has it; where comes, too, the in
variable accompaniment of the crepe
cravat with fringed ends. Happily this
accessory in crepe de chine remains of
relatively prohibitive cost. else would
it's ubiquity prove almost too much for
our exacting patience.
MOI is it by any manner of means m
constructive details alone that b;ouses
rest for their large and continued sue
cess. There are innumerable fabrics
j
wholly responsible for the success siul
effect. Only last week my always ale,t
affections We're captiVdtad by Ter
fectly, sweet little handkerchief blouse
of pale yellow silk. spotted largely with
black velvet opening IN l5ng V at the
throat to show a vest 81 black velvet
1t was the epitome IT good taste, and
yet all was of the utmoS. simplicity.
But there was cut. a 'all III IN" sllgEl-
ly pouchei front, III It nr0ciaimed 1t at
once as of Partisan origin. There is no
mistaking that subtle French influence.
The very meanest intellect must ad-
nit the difference between a blouse
that is purely American and one invest
ed with that peculiar individual ele-
gance, the source of which Is nearly
always to be found on the other side
of the great pond.
The blouse however, that will really
touch the highest pinnacle of modistic
fame is built of panne. This is an
adorable creation. Not quite, perhaps,
the extreme novelty imagined by many,
for some of us have worshipped at its
shrine a year or more. But what of
that-its appearance hitherto having
been of sufficient rarity for it now to be
accounted among the newest of the
new. And plain panne, for some occult
reason beyond me to explain, is likely
to prove more pleasing in our sight
than that which is spotted, for the pur-
pose of the blouse; while it is an old
story how with what graciousness this
particular material lends itself to The
stitchery craze of the passing hour.
But there is newer cri for these
blouses than stitchery. 1t is hand
painting. Imagine one in pale blue
panne covered with an applique painted
design of shaded irises and their foil
age. l think this may fairly be said to
be the highest triumph of the blouse
beautiful.
The trail of velvet is over everything,
but velvet is a material which never
comes amiss to any one.
have just seen number of velvet
blouses, also hand-painted. One IN
mauye miroir velvet, made corselet-fash-
ion, over an under bodice of white
satin stitched with yellow. had
spreading design of iris, cut out in
panne, and painted in the most realistic
tender colorings, rivaling nature her
self; the flowers and leaves We're then
applique over back and front and