Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-02

belliouS threats of women have weight
1t Will be a failure unless much modified
1t is the conservative opinion that the
bonnie femme" skirt plated all around
I will gain but a small following. A mod
lste whose predictions are usually within
reasonable distance of the truth says
that the triple box-plait will endure for
the winter. to give place in the spring to
draped overskirts.
Miss Marion Fish, the slender daughter
OF. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, is wearing a
"bonne femme" dress of a delicate beaver
colored cloth, the plaits being stitched
down with blue silk. The bodice, of
heavy, creamy lace, is decorated Will,
stitched scroll bands of the cloth, and is
caught at the throat by a blue velvet tie
with silk fringe.
Miss Fish is having some very dainty
dancing dresses made in spite of the fact
ttat exaggerated reports of the grand en-
tertalnments to be given by her mother
TO mark her coming out have apparently
decided the family to have no coming out
festivities at all.
one of the more elaborate evening
gowns is of Powered White panne COM
bined with white tulle, which, spangled
with steel and caught with punches of
purple clematis. forms the understand.
The overskirt of panne is dotted with lace
designs, under which the velvet is cut out
and edged with mall silk cords, a foun-
dation skirt of white satin showing
through the lace. The low. dainty bodice
is adorned with punches of clematis.
A simpler costume is of pale pink
u dotted with white chenille spots.
me lower skirt is composed of plated
f1oulces headed by small pink roses. The
upper skirt is hounced without the roses.
The bodice has bands of roses around the
decolletage and across the shoulders.
IL one We're asked, What is the most
fashionable color. the answer would be:
'1nI has haac fn 4 az =,a 1o,,- 4I.I
it ought to give something else a chance,
but IN point of fact it is more the rage
than ever it has been"
Mrs. George Law wears a street dress
of the richest shade of Ventian red, with
pipings of black velvet down the edges
OF bodice and skirt, matching the sable
on the high collar.
MRS. Oliver Iselin's ~step-daughter Miss
lselin, wears a red dress of a shade
paler than automobile, which is made
with a Directoire r%edingote having double
TeVerS, the outer ones of white panne
embroidered with soft pink and gray and
black silks. those below. of stitched cloth.
Magnificent carriage and evening
| wraps are OF red cloth trimmed with baby
lamb or of baby lamb lined with red.
Tailor dresses wander farther and far
ther from their traditions of severity.
and admit a greater and greater variety
of decoration. This is partly due to the
American Woman's unwillingness to con-
flne special dresses to wear on special
sorts of o~ccasions-the American hobby
being general utility: and partly to the
prevailing craze for extravaganza. New
ertheless many of the most elegant
dresses are still absolutely without trim
mlngs, the plain skirt of black broadcloth
relying on it's perfect cut and fit for it's
u~ndoubted cachet; the coat being short.
tlght n worn over a silk waist of the
most fanciful description. One such cos
tune lately finished is lined throughout
with white and worn with a white waist
OF lace and satin. Another Of equal ele-
gance is lined with scarlet and worn with
a scarlet satin waist, which has a white
lace yoke over white satin, and is decor
ated with tiny steel buckles and black
velvet bows.
ELLEN OSBORN.