The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-22

FASHIONS IN ENGLAND
BY SOPHIA oEANERET.

London.-The latest fashions In
women's hats present complete min
iature studies in every branch of horti-
culture, agriculture, and landscape gar
dening-
Charming as the CONNECTIONS are from
a milliners point of view, the botanist
might take some exception All kinda
of freak flowers appear, and curious
tricks nave been played with nature.
For instance roses are made in blue
UNITS, both pale. and navy in cinnamon
brown. black. purple and terra Gotta
Green hyacinth tOques are shown in
the shops and daisies unlike their sis
tiers of the fields have green petals and
pink eenters. Black butte1cups with
yellow and green calyx, pink butter
cups, blue clover, pink and purple
iaburnum black carnations, trails of
multl-eolored convolvulus, banksIa
roses in hydransea blues, blue tulips
shaded with claret, purple peoples with
black centers, and red forget-me-nots
make confusion of familiar ideas.
Some hats are covered with punches
of large grapes of black. green and
white. The latter resemble little clus-
ters OF electric light globes more than
anything else
one toque shown in West End shop
IS made principally of currants in
punches of red, white, ana black, re-
speetiyely. Sour-loeking crab apples
adorn other hats, and specimens Of
TINS fruit grown larger, with rosy
checks, appear i'm windows with
luscious peach, cherry, berried ivys and
Strawberries.
The sweet pea in all its varied pale
tints is a pretty Innovation used =; in
millinery, and the fashioned wall
Flower has its place to-day. More of the
countryside is represented by trails of
honeysuckles on soma hats, and h2W-
thorn boughs laid artistically over
crown and brim of others
"A corner of a cornfield" is name
that might be given to hats trimmed
with clusters of wheat. oats, scarlet
poppies blue cOrnflOWeTs, and tufts of
thistledoWn. Blue bells and clover dec
crate hats for town wear side by side
with rare orchids in mauve, yellow, and
gold
The picture hat appears to be in dan
ger, for fashion has decreed the use of
parasOl so tiny that il can do little
more than protect the eyes from the
suns rays. and the wearing of a wide
trimmed hat at the same time Verges
on the ludicrous.
This is a revival. of style that was
in vogue half & century go, and the
ing with the miniature sunshades give
one the impression that some of John
Leech's pictures have come to life. In
Leech's day the little parasols had
fringes Of silk and tassels. The present
style resembles the carriage umbrella,
out is much smaller
AS fashion is not altogether capri
cious, it is fair to conjecture that the
return of the little paTasol is due TO
the motor car, for it can be disposed
OF in a car more readily than the fami-
liar large parasol- 1t is heing whispered
that the little parasol may be the fore
runner Of a small bonnet for young
women and matrons, for if the revived
article is ~ stay, there must be head
gear suitable TO it,
There is serious depression in the
jewelry trade. Dealers are complaining
that the sale of jewelry and the like
has fallen off in the most marked man
ner, and that they do not know which
way TO turn to induce the public to
buy.
One eX pert said the trouble grew out
of the fact that people are not wearing
the same amount of jewelry. The fad
for our gnods is for the moment at
low ebO, and we shall have to wait till
fashion charges again." he said
Queen Muslin reigns supreme this
summer over the World of womeu's
dress. Dame Fashion get her on her
throne, and the hot summer Gays have
made her position secure.
Society women attend out Of-d00r
functions clothed in muslins, especially
in the white embroidered robes which
appear so simple in effect, but are
really so expensive.
With these gowns are carried muslin |
sunshades embroidered like the frocks, |
some trimmed with flowers applique in /
colOTs, others lined with silks
The muslin hat for garden and river /
appears in all its frilly charm in every |
shade and shape A new style is the /!
embroidered muslin stiff sailor hat in /
the ordinary small size and also the |
French sailo> hat. Some of these are /
white and some have white crown /
and brims over plain-colored muslin.
There are thousands of muslin |
blouses exhibited i'm the West End /
shops, almost to the extinction of the !
silk, and muslin blouse sales are al |