The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-08-04
NEW GOWNS.

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Yet the great makers of the fashions
will tell you that the gowns of today,
with all their elegance, do not approach
| those OF other days in point of actual
! handiWork. Take the embroidered
/ dresses of ten years ago, and they were
more work, they viii tell you; "or Sc
! lect those Of the days when the tiniest
/ cut beads We're attached to the gown
at intervals too small to admit the
/ touching of the tip of the fingers to
! the goods, or yet the days when ruffles
were the rage and when a fiounced
skirt was thing which required the
work Of weeks"
a fabric that will wear into fall is
the taifeta striped Bingham. 1t is a
cotton Bingham with a silk finish, and
then there is the silk striped Madras
to be made up over a show lining.
Mrs. Ferdinand Peck wears the most
/ beautiful dress creations, in perfect
taste every one, but so modish, so ac-
tually ahead of the style, that one Won
1 ders where she could have found a
modesto ready to turn out so many and
such artistic ones. One of her gowns
was Of decidedly novel texture and
might have been one. of the new satin
striped poplins which come now in all
the shades. The dress is light weight
and very summary, though by no
means a. wash fabric.
Another very new gown was one worn
by an American woman 1t was OF
Javenaise crepe, that new material
which is woven in horizontal tucks,
the idea being to do away with all
tucking by hand. Of course, the tucks
were absolutely accurate and were eX-
ceedingly chic, made so as to run hori-
zontally across the vest and on the
perpendicular in coat and skirt.
The first gowns of fall may show a
return to the very long lines that once
prevailed. One of the very latest mod
els, exhibited by a Paris designer to
several private patrons, was fashioned
Of Lansdowne cloth, very soft and deli
cate in texture, and absolutely lustrous.
This fabric is one of the seasons nov
elites and will be much in vogue this
autumn.
The plan of the gown was decidedly
novel. 1t was Princess, without break
from neck to hem. The sleeves, which
were plain, were slightly wrinkled to
the wrists, but the sleeve caps and the |
yoke were eXquisitely traced with sill
yer braiding. The gown, it may be
stated, was a pearl blue, upon which
this silver embroidery set well.
The novel feature lay in the tucking,
which began at the bust and extended |
in long straight tucks, very narrow and |
very tightly stitched, so as to look al |
most like cords, right down to a point !
below the knees. Below this the gown
hared and lay upon the ground, very
long in front and back
Upon the bust We're two very large |
roses Of shell pink panne velvet, so at |
tached as to stand out in beautiful re-
lief
Such gown as this, while too light |
for the street wear of the practical |
woman, might be initiated, say in Ro- I
man blue cloth, with black velvet |
braiding. with roses of deep red velvet
Hats this fall viii be worn we'll off
the face and with strings. The day
of the string is at hand. If wide the
strings are made of tuile or chiffon
and are attached to the back of the
hat and brought forward under the
chin, and sometimes wound around
several times. If they are made of mar
row bands of velvet, these velvet
steamers are caught upon the front
of the gown in a picturesque bow.