The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-16
Smart GownS
FROM PARIS.

ssT HAVE been inspecting some Of the smartest
4 gowns imaginable at the chic dressmakers'
here" says a writing from Paris. 4 go
not to BUY am vastly too poor for that-but TO
gather impressions and hints for my own modest
wardrobe"
"One, pastel-bue wolfe day gown, was made
quite long, they them in Paris grande
toilette Git Is quite a mistake to think the skirts
shorter there than they
1T had bOlero, ending above the light blue
silk waisband and the Valencennes lace under bo-
dice.
Like the soft falling skirt, it was trimmed with
circles jour of folded silk strips, united by silk
hairpin work; these we're carried perpendicularly
up the bodice and IN three horizontal rows round
the skirt.
AT the collar and at the cuffs, that fell over the
hand, were bands Of cinnamon panne, which had
great effect.
From the shoulder to the elbow the sleeve fell
most gracefully.
~The second model was made of spotted muslin
inlet IN circles and bands with pink batiste, but
how deity contrived, and how graceful!
"Tiny horizontal tuckings from the waist were
met by these cOlored bands. and innumerable other
tuckings with conventonalized forets of Irish lace
let In at intervals, while the waistband and the
trimmings on the bodice were of Valenciennes.
at was ancient prejudice that we might not
mix our laces; we always mixing them now if
we arc fashionable.
"The bodice was a triumph
"The sleeves we're of the gigot order, the trim
ming forming points downward the slope on the
shoulders accumulated by a crossing pelerine
founce in which the soft muslin and nets of pink
inserted themselves above the waistband of Valen-
ciennes insertion.
"a teagown in the Empire style of white crepe
de chine fell about the figure with subtle art
points of Valenciennes at the hem mingled
with tuckings, but the bodice there a long
falling silk fringe with melted heading, forming
vaudykes in which many colors blended family but
not assertively, and above this we're garlands of
; roses in appiques Of panne.
; "To emphasize these were folds and bands of
the most delicate light blue cloth; strand formed
of circles of the blue united by crystal beads was
: sparsely blended here and there with the silk
s fringe.
{ "There was more art In that dress than you
s would find In many picture.
"In my minds eye placed a pretty woman L
knew in that frock and envied her her success
5 lastly, an evening gown of soft white silk,
! though very little silk was visible, for round the
} hips was an emDiecement of Luxeuil lace, with a
honeycomb ground wrought in silk.
"This descended to the skirt IN three de-
cisive points meeting killed hOunces.
Little touches of pink velvet here and there APP
reared on the soft falling bodice slightly pouched,
trimmed in quite a style with tiny flowers, like
the opening bud of a cabbage rose, made of cloth
; Of gold crumpled together, tiny diamond IN the
{ center of each
) sThis headed the falling lace and formed a
shoulder-strap, leaving the point of the shoulder
bare: the sleeve, starting below, took the form Of
diaphanous killing pointing toward the elbow
{ Evening dresses are getting more and moro
lovely and for the most part composed of very
s ethereal fabrics" -.-I-A-.--- -.