The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-04-28
a SEASON OF FINE GOWNS.
All the World is Gathering at Paris
and Dressmakers BUSY.

and DreSSmakerS Busy.
Paris.-Faehfonable English resorts
will be deserted this spring, and fears
are felt for Henley; for ell the world
has turned Parisward, and the eXposi-
ton VIII hold the center of the earth's
stage for the next six months.
Exposition gowns" are being made
for walking purposes; yet they are not
strictly tailor-made, or walking
dresses, but handsome gowns. brilliant
and sufficiently elegant for a recep-
ton.
And it wiz be necessary to do one s
sightseeing in a fine gown for the
French have, with characteristic love
for pleasure, erected thousands of lit
tie eating booths which they dignity
by the name of cafe, where the most
charming little social reunions viii go
on all day long. There are little Ameri-
can booths as well as French ones and
the language viii be Babel. The Eng
Sh-speaking visitors viii. however
have no difficulty in finding neat lit
tie restaurant where he or she can be
served in English with home cooking.
Several Yankee restaurant keepers are
here, and it is funny to see the prepar-
aflOnS they are making to inform the
world that they have American dishes.
Signs reading New England Dinner"
Corn Beef Hash, " Goldfish Balls" and
Boston Baked Beans" are being
printed by the score. Many of these
signs are done by the art students and
decorated with a steaming picture OF
the tempting dainty. Even the French
restaurants are on and are ordering
little placards with Pie Of All Kinks"
printed in English upon them, TO be
posted in conspicuous place.
ALL PLAIDS.
Plaid is the ruling fancy of the mo-
ment, and plaid, whether in silk or
wool, rs made up into charming sum
mer dresses. Plaid wool skirts with
the tiniest and most brilliant thread Of
silk crossing the plaids is made up in
the new mode skirts which are tucked
around the belt and llaring around the
hips These skirts, Set as close as can
be imagined for six inches below the
belt line, where the tucks suddenly
cease. and the skirt falls plain to the
very hem.
To make the new skirts very attract
i've there is a drop skirt of silk, oor-
deTed with a deep ruffie of the dress
goods. This drop skirt is quite short.
escaping the ground all the way around,
so ia is not necessary to hold it up
the outer skirt only is lifted, and the
drop skirt hangs nearly to the ground.
This pretty fashion is less firing on
the arm than that Of lifting the whole
skirt and drop skirt.
Your correspondent has spoken Of the
deep girdles which prevail this year;
many Of them ais deep as the arm pits.
These girdles are Of silk, built upon a
foundation Of CrinOline. Stiffened with
whalebone They are hooked around
the waist, and are very snug and be-
coming to the figure
Light cloth is much used for street
gowns. A platinum colored cloth dress,
trimmed round the foot with platinum
taffeta put on in a deep knife plating
The plain bodice has a deep yoke ruffle
of platinum taffeta.
A Roman blue foulard was made with
three tunics, all opening in front, and
terminating in point just in the mid
die Of the frOnth breadth The tunics
were bOrdered with a coarse. lace-like
material of silk. The bodice was sleeve
less and low III the neck and was for
wear over a very tight-fitting waist of
lace cloth.
Hats are receiving more attention
than ever before, and are poetic in their
haTnOnies. An exquisite hat built for
a young woman who is to attend the
wedding Of Miss Mabel Mckinley, and
who has had many handsome hats and
gowns made for her visit to Washing
ton during that festive week, is of
bluebell straw. with layers of white be
tween the rows of blue.
BIG HATS.
The top is a big soft bag of turquois
blue satin trimmed with the green
leaves Of the rose plant. These leaves I
lie all around the crown and are set
in the folds with irregularity, the deep
green OF the leaves looking charming !
against the turquois blue of the crown.
At one side there is an immense red