Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-06
THE
BEATRICE
FASHION
LETTER
The girl of 1900.
She is the debutante Of course.

You will know her this season by her
wide open eyes, for it is not the fashion
to be fat and the thin faced girl Is always
the girl with big eyes.
You will know her by her shiny hair for,
having just emerged from the nursery.
speaking f1guratively. she has had time
to groom and brush and brush again, un-
til her hair shines in her first season as it
will never shine again.
You will know her, too, by that trans
parent red in her cheeks. Rouge is never
transparent. 1t has a thick look put on
ever so artistically.
You will know her by her manner, for
the debutante is not nervous and she is
woman of the world enough to keep her
poise. She has been drilled for years
for just this one supreme moment.
In a W room you will know her
by her gown. The regulation first sea-
son dress. this early part of 1900, is round
Ing in the neck with shoulder straps,
brought up broadly over the arm and
fastened on top with a buckle. or with
windmill bows. The bodice is straight
and long as for a %beanpole woman: the
skirt is straight but it stands out with a
is underneath, by the rufles. the many
skirts falling over each other, and the rip
ping petticoat.
Her sleeves.may be long the debutatne's
and if it is her first evening out they will
probably be so. Miss Wilson, one of
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London wore a ~diaphanous dress of tulle
and mousseline de sole. The corsage was
draped. The skirt trimmed with draped
ruffles. From the shoulders to the
thumbs the sleeves swept down in one
long beautiful unbroken line Of taffeta
over which was gathered the tulle.
Around her pretty. neck hung a string Of
pearls. Tears for a ~debutante. Strange
choice!
Miss Rothschild who was to have come
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her debut in a plain little derss of blue
crepe de chine, that soft material they
are always trying to supersade with their
newer ones. It was Of turquoise blue with
a decorous little ruffle Of white chiffon at
the neck. The sleeves were knuckle long
and pointed at the thumbs. inside the
wrists there showed tiny ruciles of chit
fon. She wore no jewels for she has
brothers'-in-law and cousins in the Boer
war and the Rothschilds are patriotic.
q Wore not even paris 50 that the time
hOnOred custom Of presenting each girl
Of the family with a pearl upon each OF
her birthdays. in order that she may have
a string to wear at her coming out, was
violated.
At the debut of Miss Parsons, one of the
new beauties Of New York's new season,
n of the guests, herself a debutante,
wore a bodice of snow-white Liberty sat
in. The skirt was Of mouss. line de sole.
Around the foot of the skirt was a deep
ruffte' OF white lace with roses set in.
This setting in OF flowers in lace is a
process which is not as difficult as it
sounds. but which produces an effect that
is wholly beautiful. The flowers are made
Of silk ana slightly stuffed to make them
in relief. 1t requires some art to make
a silk rose rom plain silk.
This can IL done in a very simple way
by choosing lace with roses in pattern.
Pieces OF silk. in pink and red ara SIT
under the lace roses, rluKlng them stand
out apparently in relief.
There is another way to sew roses in a
gown. Rises of velvet are slightly stGt-
fed ard are saved fast to the silk or VEL
vet after which thu material is cut away
underneath making the roses a part of
the fabric.
Wherever YOU see the debutante she
will look like a flower. Goethe's exquis-
lite Thou art like unto a flower is ex-
empiitied in real life for the fair new girl
of 1900 looks exactly as though she were
picked off a bush. 1t may be q rose, or
it may be a gladiolus or it may be a vine
of which she reminds you, but you will
surely see the flower in her.
The pretty fashion cf Swing colored silk
under the flowers in a lace pattern is said
to be entirely new. New York dress
makers, who know so much, declare that
it is new to them. 1t would be interest
ing to know If it has ever been done be-
fore. If you wish to experiment buy a
piece of lace with big roses in the pat
tern, cut out pink satin. exactly the size
and shape Of the lace roses, tack it I'M
derneath in an invisible way, and the
lower will look exactly like natural ones.
At Miss Crocker's debut one Of her as
sistants chose a very charming way Of
raising a neck which, to ,ler minu unac-
customed. might have seemed too low,
Her gown was of pale g,4Al satin crepe,
with long sleeves but low cut corsage.
The corsage was bordered with pale silk
fringe. Around her neck the pretty de-
butante had drawn a scarf of chiffon
edged with fringe and had knotted it at
the bust front. allowing the ends to fall
almost to the floor. AS her figure was
tall and slender the long hanging ends
added to her h .ght and style.
Tulle is striped with baby ribbon for the
debutante. The beautiful shade of yell
low tulle which is rad up over white
taffeta is striped by running the narrow
est bands of White baby ribbon through
the tulle. in clusters of three rows each.
The bodice is trimmed in this way, and
the skirt. You would declare it to be a
new and beautiful kind of satin striped
diaphonous material.
Ribbon, too long neglected. plays an
important part in all evening dresses. You
see it gathered on both edges and sewed
In pattefn-shape upon dresses of panne
velvet" Stuffed roses make a ponderous
and impressive, but becoming trimming
for panna. The roses are appliuued to
the material and are stuffed to make them
set out in relief. They are caught down
slightly in the center to make them look
more natural.
You picture the debutante as ALWAYS
dressed in a ball gown, ever wearing a
conventional smile, ever at her mothers
side, with the eternal bouquet in her
hand. Yet she has other guises.
There are times when. her pretty neck,
ore all curves. becomes very long and
rigid. Encased in the armor of fashion
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you had scarcely dared to admire on thai
evening when. fresh from pinafores. il
was adorable.
The neck Of the girl of 1900 is cloth
ed with a stiff stock. which. if she be a
tailor-made girl. extend right to the
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