The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-02

buckles no longer spell ruin or poverty
Tor thousands of the men and women
or Birmingham. There are still, how
ever considerable number of peo-
pie dependent. or partially dependent,
upon the industry, and it is very en-
cCuraging to them to note the present
trend of fashion in regard to feminine
gear. There is large output of fancy
buttons, in anticipation of a big de-
mand for blouses for summer wear.
Nowadays girls have ceased to go to
balls clad in trained gowns of dowager
dignity, and have adopted the skirt
which just clears the ground and al
lows glimpse of the satin shoes and
silk embroidered stockings. For debu-
tantes the most perishable and eth
erai toilettes have been evolved in
view of the after-Easter festivities,
and the fact that the short dancing
skirt is not only permissible, but oh
ligatory from the point of view of the
sternest mentors of dress, viii lessen
the risk of running new gown at
single ball a catastrophe which only
too frequently occurred when a null
tiplicity of frills and furbelows of the
most evaneseent description bordered
the hens of the trailing skirts.
Touches of color on black gown in
the shape of a bright waistband and
chaux of ribbon or artificial flowers on
a corsage have always been accepted
without reservation by the most ex-
elusive arbiters of fashion, but the lat
est idea is To introduce a raised flower
border of bright-hued blossoms in chif-
fon taffetas on black evening gowns.
This method of relieving the all-black
of a non-mourning toilette is a revival
of the second empire, and like many
other little weaknesses in the style of
dress beloved of our grandmothers, is
hardly in accordance with modern
aestheticism in things modistic. Trains
of these silk-petaled flowers supple
mented with raised bold embroidery
arranged in festoOns round the hem
of evening skirts of black mousseline
de sole have already made their ap-
pearance, every kind being passed into
service.
This seasons parasoi is even larger
than last years and about an inch
and a half beyond the model of 1904.
The latest luxury is dome-shaped,
made of the most delicate wild rose
pink MORE silk, shaded in gTadatiOns of
colors from the ferrule to the outside
rim, where it becomes almost white.
The note of novelty is provided by
triple band of tiny moss rosebuds,
posed in festoons above the edge. Each
bud, made separately by band, was of
fine chiffon.
In another design a deep band of
silver tissue trimmed a parasol made
of pearl-grey ribbed silk, sprigged all
over with prenise-looking little hand
embroidered blossoms. The flowers
were small roses in bud, and Yiolets in
tertWined; the silver tissue was woven
with the design, repeated i'm larger
blossoms, full blown, but blurred as to
outline.
Striped parasOls are being sold in all
kinds of color schemes. A striking
completion to a model showing pale
blue and cerise colorings was a deep
border of plain black satin, the ebOn
touch being repeated on the pink stick
in a big bow, with pom-pom balls.
Costumes are being matched in every
case by the colors of the parasol. But
the period of the gown and that of
the parasol must coincide. Thus a
dress on Vatican lines, in delicate COL
orings of blue and pink demands
blue parasOl, in each panel of which
a medallion of pink silk is inserted,
painted by hand, TO represent a Wat
teau shepherdess. For the river, with
white dresses, bright red silk parasols
will be again in vogue.
The zen tout cas-" which can protect
its possessor from a sudden shower
is made of shot, chine and plain silk,
of all coloFs, without any decoration,
with sticks and handles enamelled to
match the silk.