The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-05-12

Correspondence lntermountain Catholic }
Paris.-"The first fashion models of
the season are always more or less ex-
perimental,' sighed a modiste, gazing
pensively upon a large square white
pasteboard box labeled with the name
Of a fashionable American woman who
lives upon the Avenue des Champs Ely
sees 4 have made my best selection.
but you Americans are 80 governed by
your natural tastes and individual
styles that we modiStes never feel sure
that we are going to suit you.
Perhaps madame, when she receives
the tailor-made dress Of biscuit cloth.
will say that biscuit is not becoming
TO her. and that l should have chosen
the new greenish gray. If had Sc
lected gray she might have wanted
lilac. She was away st Cannes and I
could not communicate with her when
she ordered.
The modiste well understood the un-
certainty of catering to the dressmak-
ing tastes of American women, for no
matter what may be the ruling fashion
of the popular color la belle Ameri
caine Will fOrsake all for something
which is becoming to her.
That pretty American, Mrs. Austin
Lee, who ia said to have quarreled with
the Countess Castellane over the Count,
has lbIdClOuSly GluUS 10 the BOItIO
through the past two seasons when bo-
leros were more or less passe. Her
figure, inclined to be too large below
the belt. was nicely balanced by the
little short jacket with it's loose fronts
and its tendency to make the bust look
full Now the bolero is IN again and
half of the gowns are made with these
little coats.
NEW SKIRTS.
But the Princess is also in. and where
there is no bolero you see the exactly
opposite extreme, the long, tight fitting
Princess, open in front and fitting
snugly to the back and the hips.
All the inventive genius of the Paris
designer has been put upon the skirts
which are made up in so many differ
ent ways that you can scarcely de-
scribe the fashionable skirt at all
There is the skirt which is corded
around the hips, falling full from the
cording TO the floor There are skirts
little fullness that they are scant skirts
for all. There are skirts laid in the
tiniest box plaits all the way to the
knees and faring below the knees; and
skirts with one big box plat in the
middle Of the back and skirts with
plaits all the way around.
There will always be liking for the
pliuue. and for the skirt with a ripple
around the foot, and the woman who
IS selecting a gown can take her
choice of these. But ii it be a tailor
msads gown that she is selecting, let IT
be one with a satin face, not too
heavy, and in any of the shades or
green, fawn, biscuit, gray green, nickle,
perle. alumine, lilac or Roman blue.
These are the shades OF the season.
You will think them a little conspicu-
Gus. perhaps, for the tailored dress,
but they are after Dame Fashions
mode, so what do you want?
Two of the most magnificent lace
founces were viewed by your CORE !
spondent the other 2Ry ere they were |
hacked in a box and sent to a stately |
residence upon the Avenue de Troca- |
dero, a few doors from the new home |
of the Prince Of Monaco. One of the |
founces was in renaissance lace, eXz
quisitely selected, and undoubtedly |
made by hand and to order. for it was
shaped to the skirt which it was to |
adorn. The upper edge Of the fiounce |
was ready to be sewed directly upon !