The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-06

heavy winter coats and huge belt and
hat ornaments. Now the Partisan
modistes have taken the glass button
once more into favor and are using it
on some midseason toilets and in early
autumn suggestions as edging to over
dresses and coats Of cloth. To Illus
trate, a very Interesting white cloth
yachting gown had its skirt split up
the front to show a striped Detticoat
and its coat open in a bolero curve
upon a pleasing silk skirt. The round
ed fronts of the coat and the skirt
drapery were stiffiy braided and then
edged with pale green crystal balls
pierced to receive the silk twist that
held them in place. 1t is true, these
buttons were very small, but crystal
they were, and a most artful touch on
the little sea going suit.
A Wild Flower Mania.
A wild mania for the field flower
crowned hat seems to have touched
every woman's intellect. Straw hat
frames and artificial flowers are chief
among the bargains offered, and the
woman who can't make an investment
in field flowers falling becominSly about
cheap rush straw or marked-down
leghorn, had better hide her shame
under Il calico sunbonnet. Naturally,
these inexpensive and rather fragile
for country use, and for wear with
white pique, organizes, etc. The straw
frame is usually bought with halo
brim three and half to four and 1--WE
inches wide, and the decision seems TO
be Invariably in favor of binding the
brim' s edge narrowly with black velvet
A full knot of velvet is set somewhere
under the brim, in order that 1t may
lie against the hair and then quite pell-
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crown. Black-eyed Susans, corn
flowers and marsh rue is favorite
combination. with ripe grasses.
A strong following goes with the
water lily hat where the full blown
flowers are massed in thick coronet,
completely encircling the crown to
make it look high and massive and
no leaning toward the sloppily pictur-
esque allowed. Strings. or the very
gayest imitation jeweled hatpinss fas-
ten these floral treasures in place, and
the only foreign accompaniment TO the
Bio ssoms allowed is a big bow of black
velvet or tulle.
Passing of the Lace Gown.
Think first and think hard. when you
see a bargain in lace. that is not edg-
ing. offered. This is necessary, be-
cause it is a very dubious question
whether women next winter are going
to wear the filmy needlework to any
extent, and a lace jacket, or all-oVer
lace costume still costs enough to ne
cessitate d justification of long, hard
wear. Requiescat can be safely, even
now, pronounced over the net gown
jetted in figures and spangled in ara
besques, because a warning has come
that richly figured grenadines in divers
tones will surely take possession of all
well regulated wardrobes next winter.
Already some of these grenadines in
white have been worn by the always
early in fashions fields, at Newport.
These white visions are wondrously
splotched and moired in gold and silver,
and by some ignorant admirers set
down as cloth of gold. But that is not
anywhere near the facts, for by some
art of the French weaverS gold and
silver colored silk is wrought through
the web-like meshes of white and the
rich CLEANS are brought out in the high
lights.
over in Paris, as well as in smartly
dressed American society, the hair
brooch has been crossed off the list of
fashionable toilet etceteras, and the
most luxurious new sunshades are of
rucked chiffon, white on thin white
silk foundations. The handles are of
pale yellow natural wood, with hook
ends, and the edging of the parasol is
done with a thick ruche of Clipped
white tulle, or more regally still, with
fluffy full white ostrich feathers.
Something more in the purchasing
line of the average woman is the ex-
ceedingly tiny belt buckle of brilliants
that is worn in preference to any other
type. A buckle an inch long is the
proper size for summer gowns, and it
must carry a three-inch wide, very
soft white satin ribbon. The brilliants
of the buckle are sunk in a trough of