The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-06-30
Especially written for the Woman's de
partment of The Intermountain
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Catholic)
Paris. June 24.-The spring dresses
worn at the races, in Paris, at the yer
nissage, at the Salon, in the Bots de
Boufogne and at the theatres have
many novel features; so many, in fact
that one despairs of ever describing any
of them, so great is the Whirl OF mlno
which they produce
Next to the year 1880, when fashions
were so complex that everything was
trimmed with bow or a tiounce, the
year 1900 will hold the record of the cen
tury in complicated materials and trim
mings 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 re-
sembles a rainbow in hue.
Ia justice to the styles it may be SAID
that they are pretty. The trying habit
back; the very difficult fitted hips ana
the narrow knees are all abandoned Tor
a sweeping skirt rather wide and quite
long. In these new skirts there is.a sug-
gestion Of a return to the crinollne, 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 now.
1 am describing a dress worn by Mrs.
Potter Palmer a few days ago. II was
a standard blue foulard, figured with
many fancy stampings, all in geometrlc
designs. Circles, squares and trianSles
in cream covered its blue surface.
The skirt, the couteuriere who made
il informed the writer, was cut per
fectly round, slightly longer in the back
than in the front. The fullness 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 trim
ming for the skirt. Below this shirred
yoke the skirt flared out q 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. PALMER'S DRESS.
The waist had a shirred yoke and the
tops of the sleeves were shirred. This
gave rather pretty and decidedly ju-
Venile appearance to the waist, though
the front was brought down in 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 flower gar
den.
Mrs. Edwin Gould, who has been Gre
ating something of a sensation over
her elegant gowns, and who was re-
Gently presented at court, wore, few
days ago, a dress which attracted at
tention. It was in black and white,
those two most desirable colOrS from a
modiste's standpoint. Give me black
and white, and / can do anything" said
fashionable dreSsmaker the other day,
running her hands through a chiffon
f1ounce of black, aRd caressingly drap-
ing it over a white satin skirt.
Mrs. Gould's dress, as worn in Lon
don and described by a girl correspond
ent in letter to an artist friend in
Paris, was all in black and white.
The skirt, said the letter, was
black silk tulle, very shiny md as thin
as a spider web 1t was cut round and
was shirred at the waist line until it
was exactly the same fullness all the
way around. 1t was made over a skirt
of white taffeta with a Iuffie of en-
broidery. The skirt had a yoke of
white taffeta, embroidered in silver.
The waist was Of black tulle with a
yoke of embroidered taffeta set over a
vest of tuIle. 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 foun-
dation."
she letter concludes, You can mag
inc the pretty soft GOODNESS of such
gown and the sensation it made in a
wilderness of color"
A brilliant touch of color is given
these rather sombre gowns by the stock
which is of bright blue. or green. or
even Of scarlet For the making of
these stocks the newest colors are used,
the fair pale shades of green and the