The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-07-21

Paris, June 25.-At no time of The
year are the advantages of the sonar
ate waist SO plainly seen and felt as in
the summer time. Without the detach-
able waist a woman's wardrobe would
be limited to a few gowns compared to
IIle great number which she can afford
upon Ihe same allowance if she takes
advantage OF the opportunities offered
for the separate waist.
Ana never We're these opportunities as
numerous. There are no less than TWEEN
" new waist materials all manffestIy
Tor the fashioning of waists alone. and
not skirts: and, besides the fabric
themselves, there are dozens of trim
mlngs that come for waists only and
are scarcely used at all upon skirts
Take so simple a thing as lace cloth
and note how seldom it is emuloved for
skirt materials. Its use is plainly for
the BODICE and you find it exclusively
made into shirts, boleros and fronts.
Then there are the many handkerchief
goods. which are growing more nu-
merous every day, and which are en-
ployed for waists and scarcely for,
skirts. The fine lawns and tulle and
chiffon are, Of course. used for whole
costumes, but it is safe to saw that
they are made into waists twenty times
to once. when they are used for skirt
materials.
The gold trimmings are designed
specially for bodiceS; and so are the
silver and steel designs which come
TINS season in quaint shapes to be ap-
pied TO the shoulder or the waist
Many are the styles that are designed
specially for the separate waist.
THE NEW WAIST.
The very latest is the Roberts waist,
which may, in time, become as fashion
able as the Garibaldi was TWENTY-FIVE
years ago The Roberts is blouse with
tucked front set in like a vest From
the arm seams come two broad pieces
which are tied upon the bust in a big
bow with long ends. The waist may be
made Of pink lawn, the tucked vest of
white sheer goods, while, coming from
each arm, are two very long Streamers
of the thinnest linen. with the ends
bordered with lace. These materials are
ordinarily in the Roberts waist
Another waist. very new and very
much in style, is the one worn by Mrs.
James Brown Potter a war bazaar
the other day. Her pretty and serene
ladyship sat in a flower BOOTH with
shoulders and arms rising from a sea
Of roses. Her skirt was scarcely Wis
ible and might have been any kind of
white goods, plain and devoid of dis
tinctiOn, but the bodice was a dream
Rose taffeta, beautiful, soft and the
color of a peach blossom was laid in
tiny tucks from neck to belt, nothing
but tucks, one by the side of the other.
no larger than a cord, and very regu-
lar
over the waist was worn the smallest
bolero. all of silver gauze, with silver
figures appliqued upon it. The edge was
outlined with a tTacery of silver put on
in scroll design. Around the neck rose
a soft cream arrangement partly of
tulle and partly of silver thread, very
dream Of a stock.
Newport will receive its share of
Paris handiwork this season. Gowns
have been sent over to Mrs. w. X.
Vanderbilt, jr., to Mrs. Clarence Mac
kay and to half a dozen other of the
prominent young society women Of
Newport. No order ever quite equals
the ones given by Mrs. John Mackay
for her daUghter-in-law, and there are
pretty stories told of the devotion which
The ladies bear for each other.
The baby girl, too, has her Paris
gowns and one is to be all of baby blue
taffeta with a lace slip over it, the
neck and waist being confined with
lunches Of very fine white ribbons. For
a maid of less than a year this makes
q very dainty gown.
A VISION IN RED.
Virginia Vanderbilt is extremely par
tial to bright reds and, in her summer
wardrobe, is a bodice made of bands
of red satin alternating with Russian
insertion. Underneath is a RED taffeta |
corset cover with lace insertion run |
ming the other way. The neck has a |
simple fold of tulle over taffeta with a I
big bow of red tulle in fTont-the ends