Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-20
BEATRICE FASHION LETTER

Keep your lorgnette at your eyes. You
will need 1t.
Not one. not two, not yet three new
gowns will the girl of fashion wear the
next three weeks but dozens and dozens,
all differing as the east does from the
west.
Only five weeks remain between now
and Lent and in hat brief interval she
must gown herself anew every evening
and fresh every morning.
The very height Of extravaganza in
feminine wearing apparel has been
reached. When a simple filmy yard of
goods, thin as a spider web. white as
driven snow, with violets scattered over
1t in silk threads, costs $40, and it takes
20 yards to make a gown, then you can
guess what chance there is for the sur
vival of the purse of mankind. Such was
one of the gowns worn at Mrs. Ansor
Phelps Stokes fancy dress ball the 9TH
err evening. The subject of the costume
was The violet in the snow The wear
er. a pale blonde, dressed herself in white
and violet, the white as soft as a snow
flake. and the skirts of her gown heap
ed one over the other, in the fashion
we call tunic. until they resembled snow
drifts. Her jewels We're pearls.
But fortunately there are less expen-
sive ways to gown yourself.
A black tulle is ideal for effectiveness.
Mrs. Beach, the bride. who was former
~ Mrs. Havemeyer, wore an exquisite
black tulle the other evening. 1t was
long, all the way around, but especially
sweeping in the back. The foot of the
skirt was jetted. Underneath the tulle
was another skirt of tulle; and under
meath was a black satin skirt without
gloss. The dull blackness was immense
~ smart. relieved as it was by the wink
of the jets. Jets are saucy things; they
tWInk' Mt WON 81 Yy1---.
are a cheerful trimming, too, perhaps just
because of this tendency to wink.
AS If to refute the whispers that She
has had difficulty with the duke and
that. owing to a family quarrel, he is
going to the Transvaal to be killed by
the Beers, Consuelo, Duchess of Mari
borough. appeared the other evening, at
a small reception given by one of the
maids of honor of Queen Victoria's court,
In a gown that was speedily cabled to
Paris; and there it was Immediately imi-
tated.
Its foundation. to begin at the bot
tom. was blue satin, plain and straight,
like a slip. Over this was worn a black
tulle skirt embroidered with the most
brilliant and red poinsettas. those ragged
winter flowers that blossom so l%uXuriant-
ly in the florists windows and are so
much a part of church decoration. The
great straggly ave were as red as
blood and the centers We're black and
red and yellow. Over it all was worn
another skirt of tulle which was Topped
high over the underskirt and fastened
with a turquoise rname just above
each bunch of poinsettas. 1t is the FASH
ion now to go in half mourning be-
cause of the many losses which the Brit
ish aristocracy has sustained but our lit
tie duchess blossomed forth like al
exotic.
A photograph of Miss CORVALLIS West,
who is engaged to the new and young /
Duke of Westminster, who will, from
now on, be the richest duke in the world,
was sent in a private letter to a friend
in New York. Miss West, who is a very
pretty girl, resembling her sister. the
Princess of Pless, was shown in a bodice
that seemed merely a cloud, so little did
it hide the figure. The waist was sleeve
less and one shoulder was draped with
tulle or chiffon, while the other was not.
Around her throat she had a dog collar
of pearls; and below it there was a
drep ped necklace of valuable pierced /
gems.
The only pierced diamond necklace in
the world belongs to Lady Curzon who
threw away three-quarters of the value
of her diamonds when she ordered
them strung together. but there are
several women in this country and Eng
land, who w necklaces of briliiants and
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not quite as rare as diamonds. Madame
Navarr owns a necklace of Brazilian |
diamonds very yellow, pierced With tiny
golden rods, and strung around her neck I
by these slender fastenings; from a dis /
tance looking as though the diamonds
We're not secured.
The skirts of the new evening dresses !
are as varied as those of street gowns.
The habit skirt which was not so very
pretty but which was light and COM
Portable is not seen in the bali room.
But the box'plaited skirt is much in evil
dence. They make o plated skirts of
white taffeta all the way around and
embroidered up the plaits with flowers. |
ASK your nodiste to fashion such a
skirt for you. Choose the satin faced
taffeta in the new yellow or gold white.
Let the plaits be laid entirely around The
figure if you are slender; and. instead of
hand embroidery, use applique of bril- /
liant, red roses, put on in such a fashion
that the vine tapers toward the waist
ending with a few tendrils. Over the
roses you can applique the finest web |
of unfigured lace, through which the
roses shine. In the center of each rose i
work the tiniest heart of rhinestone |
beads. Around the foot of the skirt, be- |
tween the plaits, set a deep rufle of
lace. Point de Paris, or any other lace !
o may select, but see that it is not
soft a lace. This will give a pref
flare around the foot.
If you faithfully follow these directions
you will have just such a skirt as was
worn by the belle of New York's ia
nous Assembly ball.
They make another evening skirt. It
is box plated in the back but snug upon
the hips and in the front. The back has ,
just one big box plat which is narrow
at the belt but gradually broadens. 1t
the Vatican plait, particular
~ when 1t is made of a different ma
terial from the rest Of the skirt.
At a New Yea" reception, given the
first of the year ly Mrs. George Gould, |
one of the guests wore a skirt of blue
taneta with 4 :panish laca overdress.
Quite ullaint il laalcad &c 1ho,ar.h L.