The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-08
Summer Gowns to be Costly

Costly thy habit as thy purse can
buy seems to be the accepted motto for
the gowns in this year of our prosper
ity: still, it is the costliness controlled
by good taste and the intuitive instinct
OF the fitness of things, for the best
dressed woman is not always she who
has the most elaborate clothes, but she
who knows how and when to wear
what she has. A refined woman's es-
thetic sense unconsciously teaches her
that while it is utterly out of the ques-
ton for her to indulge her artistic per-
ceptions in a robe of panne foulard at
81 a yard, that instead of endeaVoring
u initiate the idea in a cheap so-caned
silk a so cents the wiser part is 10
grasp the leading idea of the skirt and
bodice shape with, perhaps, touch OF
the characteristic trimming, and re-
produce these in one of the many beau
tiful mercerized cottons, with which
every shop is now so bountifully sup
piled The best of these cottons are so
well manufactured that the luster will
not disappear, even after a vigorous
Tubing but beware of rashly purchas-
ing them, for there are some that will
SPOT with the slightest drop of water.
Many of the seasons daintiest pat
terms in foulards are priced at 81
yard. others at $3.50 and 81. But if you
are a judge of quality the former will
be found to answer every purpose.
The summer season of 1902 will un-
doubtedly hereafter be known as the
period of the vogue of the bell sleeve,
which is tight-f1tting over the upper
arm. but slopes into full and puffed
effect below the elbow, being gathered
into some fancifully conceived cuff at
the wrist. This gives the opportunity
for the Introduction of white chiffons
and mulls, ecru laces, as we'll as the
white filet ones; small buttons, tiny
ribbon straps. or cordings and loops
also serve to give an added touch of
daintiness and fashion to the sleeve.
The upper part is sometimes tucked in
hairline tucks, or shirred or plated in
mOusquetaire fashion. The same idea
of the sleeve is carried out in the vest
and collar; but one could almost swear
that the sleeve design is first conceived.
and the remainder of the garment hung
upon that. Some beautiful imported
models are showing the deep lace cuff
reaching to the elbow and totally with
out lining; others show the elbow sleeve
with the pompadour ruff1e of delicately
soft lace or point desprit,
While the blouse bodice appears
predominant in the American created
foulards, in the Partisan gowns are to
be seen both blouse and eton effects,
with some slight spriDkling of the short
Louis XVI coat, also some position eff
fects in allover lace jackets. This coat
and the bodice with positions, whether
OF lace, silk, cloth, or whatsoever ma
terial, are undoubtedly the reigning
styles which are most suitable for the
stout figure. But then, too, we must re-
member that as NOWADAYS there are no
more old-lady- styles, woman seeming
today to have found the fountain Of
perennial youth so long sought for, so,
too. the mature figure is being elimin-
ated gradually; thanks, no doubt, large
ly to the Introduction of the straight
front corset in its latest and best form.
Marie Tours in Chicago Tribune.