The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-07-14

Paris, June 20.-The city is recklessly
gay! The subdued hues of spring are
now outshone by the brilliant tones of
summer, and where brown and pale
green once hung high over the heads
of the gay crowds in the Bots de Bo-
logne there is a background of the
most gorgeous green, intensified bv the
rich bronze of the tree trunks.
In the Bots, upon the boulevards. at
the Exposition, everywhere there are
gay crowds, brilliant in coloring and
Shimmering in the soft glossy silks and
cambricS OF the season.
Inc question now of color is a vital
one. Few women choose colors well;
only half of the women choose them
even acceptably.
one OF the American girl exhibitors
at the Salon this spring makes a pretty
penny every season selecting colors for
IaShlonable women to wear She looks
her woman over tries the shades. and
hnally gives her a written list of the
colors she may wear. Besides knowing
the plain tones that are becoming to
her, she is furnished with the color
combinations guaranteed 10 look well
with her hair AND complexion.
rev women in the actual world Of
FASHION trust themselves to choose
their own colors Better they say. to
employ professional Who Will make
no mistakes
Nor is the matter of color a simple
one this season, when the modes run to
a combination Of colors nearly of a
shade The blues and greens are placed
SIDE by side and one on top OF the
other. The browns and the russets.
the yellows and the pinks, are so ar
ranged that they must combine re-
markably well or they win clash.
COLOR SHADES.
The trick Of finding the color shades
is one that belongs to an artist, for ii
IS only the artistic eye that can discern
the tones and arrange them 50 as to
show off to the best advantage the
woman who is wearing them.
In every woman's face there is a
touch OF green, so the artists tell Us.
and If the green which harmonizes with
this can be found it viii be immensely
becoming. So with blue, for there is
blush tinge. if not in the eyes. d.
rectly under them; and if the proper
shade of blue is found the eyes are
prettier and deeper.
Fellows are becoming to sallow faces
and to pink ones; in fact. becoming TO
all, II the correct shades are found and
especially when combined with purple
for the two colors match well together
When the artist who has selected the
NOlpIS has llLlSu6Q WITH ner Work the
wise woman OF fashion will take the
combination Of the modiste and allow
her to pick it out with black. Black
here or there will accentuate the bright
tones and make them brighter. actual
~ bringing them out. For this reason
rosette of black silk with d bodice
of velvet, chouX roSettes of tulle,
stock, even a black silk rose-which
you Will see upon many of the new
summer hats-gives the completing
touch to ii all. In this respect black is
wonderful thing; it supplies the note
which is called chic by the French
In the summers color array there
must be white. If pink is the song.
white is the keynote-black the minor
chord to give expression. White must
be present; not in Titles, but en- masse.
An entire white blouse and tunic over
a slip OF daffodil silk: a white dotted
blouse over a body of turquoise: white,
white everywhere: that is the pretty
note in the summers dress.
IN THE TOWER.
Thousands of Parisians who have
never visited the Eiffel Tower until this /
season are taking it in now: and some
OF the handsomesC toilettes of the year
can be sketched there any fine day. 1t
is the dress resort of fashionable wo-
men; and never a summer watering /
place that boosted prettier or more |
elaborate gowns.
An Eiffel Tower dress was Of silk |
gauze in a sapphire hue The short /
tunic had a pointed front. trimmed I
around the lower edge with a broad /
band Of Chantilly lace, while panels of /
the same lace extended from the belt
downward. Nothing could have been
palmer than this tunic, for there was
not a particle of fulness in it; not as .
much as a looping.
The skirt was composed entirely of
panels OF the lace Joined by the mar
rowest bands of sapphire ribbon. A