Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-10

spring, longer than ever, but of lighter
material. They are straight and loose. |
but with more Of a flare in the back,
thus relieving the figure of that long ''up
n down" look which was SO noticea-
BILE upon the earlier importations Of long |
coats. Many of them la the Vatican
plat in the back. Many of them are de-
signed to be worn open in front, and are
handsomely ined with silk over which
lace Is appltQued.
WAISTS AND SKIRTS.
While the shirt waist is by no means
discarded or in any way out of date, It
is subject to certain notifications. For
instance, very smart women no longer
select a shirt waist Of blue. or Of pink, or
purple, or gray, picking them aim1essly
from the On the contrary, they
bear in mind their assortment of skirts
and choose the shirt waist to match.
With a skirt of blue cheviot striped with
buff n figured with tiny blush roses.
any n of half a dozen waists may be
worn. A blue waist would be highly
These shirt waists a be picked up for
a song at the first shirt waist sale of
the season and laid aside until time to
yea them.
In New York they are wearing the first
shirt waists of the season. The first sew
ing meeting of a fashionable Lenten sew
ing circle showed half a dozen of the
members clad in shirt waists of Mad
ras, cheviot and cotton challie. The
/ waists were. made in the very newest
fashion, stamping them as the advance
style of the season. One of cream COL
ored Madras. figured in pink and purple,
had a broad plastron of white needle
work down the front. The needlework
was edged with a white cambria rufhe on
either side. This front strip, which uns
from neck to belt. is very fashionable.
and will be much worn upon all shirt
waists. 1t is adjustable, and can be
transferred from n waist to another.
So, while the trend of fashion leads to-
ward the shirt waist, there is his diff
/ ference, that the waist must in some way
match the skirt. The all black skirt will
! be worn but it will be of duck. trim
med with bands of colored braid.
If a black skirt is worn with a colored
waist 1t is we'll to select a belt which
shall hold the black from the vivid COL
or. Thus, with a skirt of black linen
which is to be worn with a waist of blue
cheviot, there might be a girdle of mauve
taffeta which would correspond with a
stock of the same.
THE NEWEST GIRDLE.
They are making a very pretty pattern
Of girdle. 1t consists of a broad band of
ribbon, say, four inches wide, boned in
the back. Upon the ends are sewed two
rings of brass or steel. A narrow rib
bon is also sewed at the very same point
| where the ring Is attached to the end of
the belt. BY a simple system the narrow
ribbons are drawn through the opposite
rings, making a sort of draw string by
which the belt Is pulled together, after
, which the narrow ribbons are tied in a
neat bow in the middle of the front. This
style Of belt will be much worn. It is
also adapted to the neck, in ribbons of
the same color as those used for the belt.
The new shirt waists will be trimmed
| with a lattice of wash ribbon, or braid.
| This is very easy to apply. n once. ap-
| piled, makes a pretty trimming which
will hold it's own forever. Mrs; Levi p.
Morton, whose four pretty daughters are
dressed always in the newest modes,
wore, herself, at a .Lenten luncheon, q
bodice which was worth noticing. It's
material was blue gray taffeta: its trim
| ming consisted of bands of rose silk ap-
piled In lattice fashion, to form q yoke
Of lattice and cuffs of the same. Her
belt was a stiffened lattice of the rose
silk. and there was on OpenwOrk, lattice
stock of rose silk.
! Fancy this same costume carried out
in an inexpensive wash material with the
lattice Of ribbon. The result would be
the same and the waist n which could
be worn all summer.
The first spring hats are selected. one
would say, more for show than for wear.
cate the fashions and to serve as mod
! els. From these advance fashions one
; would say that color 10 to be the keynote.
! OF the summers fashions. With colors
! nicely and -harmoniOusly selected one
hardly go wrong in the selection Of the
summer modes Let h hat and stock
. and belt harmonize. and the rest of the
| dress will take care VI itself. ..fs.