The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-04-26
POEM IN SPRING PETTICoATs.

II linen and batiste gowns are pref
tier than ever the same may be said
of the pettcoats milady chooses to
wear beneath these dainty summer fab
RIGS. A novel little fancy, one quite in
keeping with the vogue for linen and
crash just at present, is to have one S
petticoat match the dress skirt.
A Wedgewood blue gown is lifted to
expose the much trimmed flounce of a
petticoat in the same shade of blue.
Trimmings on these garments are
usually confined to insertions and APP
pliques of heavy lace or perhaps an
effective pattern of embroidery.
The Persian and Turkish designs are
considered just a little heavy for petit
coat ornamentation, though all manner
of handsome laces are used with lavish
disregard for price. These heavy ecru
laces are expensive, it cannot be de-
MED, yet this is certainly not surpris-
ing when one remembers nearly all of
such exquisite trimmings are hand
wrought.
Among the quantities of entire deux
trimmed hounces, in stripes running
up and down. around and in diagonal
lines, one occasionally notices a skirt
Uranamented in some rather unique
style. Perhaps the insertions form odd
and effective patterns, or are broken by
large medallions spaced some distance
apart.
Fine white embroidery medallions
squares, diamonds and fancy designs
are scattered over some of the flounces,
while an edging to match is set on the
bottom for a finish.
A rose pink linen petticoat has the
bottom of its fiounce embroidered in |
an open pattern, with the lower edge |
cut in scallops and finished with a mar |
row frilling of lace. The upper section. |
where the f1OunCe is joined to the pet /
Jicoat is caught to the lower edge of a /
handsome and irregular band of Cluny |
lace.
Ecru linen gowns demand ecru petit |
coats, and the sheer white lace
trimmed petticoat is paired off with the
white linen or pique gown.
Wonderfully effective is this little
fad. and daintily- booted women are
certainly not 10th to expose a fasCin-
ating glimpse of pretty pink. lace or
white flOuncing.
The colored petticoat, that is. the
one in dainty shades, seems to be uV-
usually popular already this season.
In fact the novelty has taken so well
with wearers of linen gowns that the
fashion of tinted linen petticoats will
hardly be confined to frocks of the
same variety. MedalliOns of fine tucks,
outlined with lace insertion, and
swung together With these wavy lines,
form one of the prettiest trimmingc
possible to imagine.
Sometimes the tucks run up and ;
down, with quite as often they are :
run in a diagonal line.
Lace medallions are treated after the ,
same fashion, while beautiful white ,
disks are arranged without connecting :
bands.
Bowknots. Butterflies and even birds !,
worked in white upon the sheerest !
white linen, are artistically scattered :
over deep petticoat f1ounces of pale !
linen
A decided novelty is the pompadour :
petticoat, which is made of pink-flow-
cred batiste and trimmed with lace.
either white or black, to correspond !
with the gown with which it is to be :,
worn. !,
The idea is charming certainly, and :
10 one can fail to appreciate the beauty n
Of such exquisite harmony. ;,
Smart summer shoes and dainty c
open-work or lace trimmed stockings ;,
end their share of prettiness to the :,
effect. One might say, indeed, :
hat never before have women worn :
such fascinating accessories.