The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-19
Tailor Made 1affeta Suits.

sleeves. Needless to say blouses ars
not cheap, being the handiwork OF
skilled artists.
Tailor Made Taffeta Suits.
There is new soft and heavy make
of taffeta, especially manufactured, it
is presumed, in view of the tailor-made
coat and skirt Of course only the very
smartest women wear these suits be-
cause the construction thereof requires
an infinite amount of skill and taste.
Here Is the description of one which
forms a portion of the trousseau of a
November bride 1t is of beaver-brown
taffeta. The skirt is cut in a series of
cores, each one tucked in horizontal
lines, and united by that open work
Misunderstanding carried out in heavy
embroidery silk and revealing between
the interstices a gimmer of turquoise
blue. Tucks again, only much more
closely applied, deck the short coat
which is fitted into the figure by means
of the most ingenious sort of frame
work of shaped stitched strappings;
while to further confound the under
standing of the modistically unintelli-.
gent, there is a collar of natural tinted
linen. embroidered with blue flax
thread. Probably on the suspicious
day in question, which occurs quite at
the end of the month. the wearer will
a fur wrap of sorts. For such is the in
consequent gospel at present preached
by the progressive purveyors of modes.
Cutting Our Shawls.
must tell you of an evening cloak
/ saw the other night at the theater.
1t was evidently made from an EN-
broidered China silk shawl. 1t had a
deep band of mink all around it's base
and heading deep white silk fringe
such as one sees on these shawls. I
think, however, that the fringe must
have either been put on afterwards. or
if it We're the real fringe of the shawl.
that it must have been cut off and
sewn around the altered shape, be-
cause the shawl had obviously been cut.
There were no points evident at the
sides or the back, it was even all round
the figure.
Cream color and dark fur give a
most satisfying charm. A certain dress
maker I know is doing fascinating
things just now with those richly col
ored Paisley and Indian cashmere
shawls of our grandmothers, contriv-
ing from them most artful and win
some little boleros, which brighten into
a most interesting appearance the gown
of quiet cloth of our autumn and Win
ter use, and bringing into play charm
ing notes of turquoise blue and Indian
red and old green panne and velvet
tones these which those who are the
possessors of hitherto useless posses
sion of Paisley or Indian shawls will
know wen TO pe prominent III tHtlE coiii-
position
Green, by the way, is securing for
itself quite a nice fat slice of popular
favor, and has serious inclinations to-
wards running Itself in dangerous r!y-
airy with brown. A dark olive tone. in
a very fine, highly-finished face cloth,
told an attractive tale in severely
tailor-built coat and shirt costume. The
coat was almost Elton, with just the
veriest pretense of spade fronts, that
were thrown back to the waist by
revers of pale blue panne, run round
the edge with three or four rows of
Tom black and white silk fringe As
the skirt was lifted the wearer revealed
glmpses of a pale blue silk petticoat,
and a round todue of tucked blue
panne. its brim artistically trailed over
on the left side with Russian violets.
completed a rather more than usually
attractive tout ensemble