Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-17
Paris GOWNS WORN
BY AMERICANS.
MRS. EDWIN GOULD CREATES 4
SENSATION IN a BEAUTIFUL
COMBINATION OF BLACK
AND WHITE.
PINK THE SEASONS COLOR.
hfrs. Potter Palmer Daxzles Paris
With Her ToiIettes and Introduces
New Modes TO Paris Society-Nov-
elites in Tailor Made Gowns.

PARIS, June 6.-The spring dresses
worn at the races, in Paris, at the YER
n1ssage, at the Salon, in the Bots de
Boulogne and at the theaters have
many novel features; SO many, in fact,
that one despairs of ever describing
any of them, so great is the whirl Of
mind which they produce.
Next to the year 1880, when fashions
were so complex that everything was
trimmed with a bow or a founce, the
year 1900 will hold the record of the
century In complicated materials and
trimmings, And not only are these
mixed in an unusual degree, but colors
are combined in strange ways, until
the show window of a fashionable shop
resembles a rainbow in hue.
In justice to the styles, it may be
said that they are pretty. The trying
habit back; the very difficult fitted hips
and the narrow knees are all aban-
doned for a sweeping skirt rather wide
and quite long. In these new skirts
there is a suggestion OF a return OF the
crinoline. or at least of a return to The
round skirt which may, before the first
Of the year, be a thing that is again in
vogue.
We have. indeed, the round skirt
row.
l am describing a dress worn by Mrs.
Potter Palmer a few days ago. 1t was
a standard blue foulard, figured with
many fancy stampings, all in geometric
designs. Circles, squares and triang.es
In cream covered it's blue surface.
The skirt, the couturiere who made
1t informed the writer, was cut per-
fectly round, slightly longer in the
back than in the front, The fulness
from the waist to the hips was confined
by many rows of shirring which were
placed so close to each other that they
made a yoke which was almost a trim
ming for the skirt. Below this shirred
yoke the skirt fiared out a little and
was trimmed around the foot with
many ruffles, put on in curved shape,
some draped high; and others extend
ing to the foot of the skirt.
Mrs. PaImer's Dress.
The waist had a shirred yoke and the
tops of the sleeves were shirfed. This
gave a rather pretty and decidedly jul
-venAs appearance to the waist, though
the front was brought down In a long
point in the middle of the belt. A broad
girdle of artichoke green satin confined
the waist. The hat was a marvel in
green and pink, the two colors being
cunningly mingled as in a flower gar
den.
Mrs. Edwin Gould who has been crea-
ting something of a sensation over
here for her youth, her good looks and
her elegant gowns, and who was recent
ly presented at court, wore a few days
ago, a dress which attracted attention.
1t wa in black and white, those two
most desirable colors, from a modiste's
standpoint. 'Give me black and white
and l can do anything" said a FASH
ionable dressmaker the other day, run
ming her hands through a chiffon
%fiounce of black, and caressingly drap-
Ing it over a white satin skirt.
Mrs. Gould's dress, as worn in Lon
0 and described by a girl c~orrespon-
dept in a letter to an artist friend in
Paris, was all in black and white.
The skirt" said the letter, was a
Diack SILK tulle, very shiny and as thin as
Q spider web. 1t was cut round and was
shlrred at the waist line until it was ex-
actly the same fullness all the wav
around. 1t was made over a skirt of
white taffeta, embroidered in silver.
The waist was of black tulle with q
yoke of embroidered taffeta set over q
vest of tulle. The lower part of the
waist was of the white embroidery to
match the yoke. The sleeves were of tulle
shirred over a white taffeta foundation ;"
The letter concludes: You can imagine