The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-26
LONDON FASHIONS.
BY MAY DAWSON.


London, May Questionable women
| have adopted new dress craze dag
nosed as "vinselitis" The symptoms
differ from ''sequinitis." the malady of
last season. and the sequined gown will
no longer be the chief favorite
''Tinselitis'' has affected dress, mil
linery, notepaper and picture postcards
and has opened new profession for
women.
| There is an extraordinary demand
for tfnsel," the manager of large pic
ture postcard firm said the other day.
! 1T began with the picture postcard of
actresses, in which only the jewels were
picked out with tinsel The favorite
/ picture postcard is now a blaze of this
/ glittering powder.
THE new craze opens up splendid
employment for women. The cards are
embossed with a raised uncolored pat
| tern of flowers or scenery. The artist
must then tint the card, and where the
tinsel is to be applied a specially PRE-
pared gum is laid on. The glttering
powder is then shaken all over the card
and tilted off again, leaving The cor
rect quantity clinging to the gum.
, A well known "costumier' regards
"tinselitis" as one of the most artistic
of complaints
There is an innate desire in the
feminine heart to glitter" he said.
The millionairess can indulge in dia-
monds. 'Tinselitis' will be the pet dis
ease of the enormous number of NO
men who cannot afford the real dia-
monds and who will wear the paste
The most delicate effects can be OBJ
tanned on dresses by the tinsel powder
We are making debutante's gown for
the next drawing room of white chif-
fon, on which are scattered tiny silver
rosebuds. Gold tinsel peoples on black
is also one of the latest designs
Many ladies are adding tinsel work
to their knowledge of fancy embroi-
derry.
'Tinselitis' has also affected mil
linery and flower tooues are now
made, the center of each blossom being
filled with silver, gold or jet powder
The three materials which stand out
from all of the rest for ball games
are marquisette, lace and net, while
colOrS are far more IN vogue this sea-
son-except where the debutante is
cOnceTned-than white or black As a
matter of fact. black is usually only
introduced as a means of setting off
one of the rich tints which are so fash
ionable nowadays. A ball gown of pale
almond green silk net was worked with
long perpendicular bands of jet en-
broidery, terminating at the hem in
true lovers fashion in true lovers
knots, the effect being almost that of
wide striped material
In some cases the most delicate make
of black Chantiliy lace is mounted over
burnt orange, Malmaison pink or lilac.
folded waist belt of silver tissue fin
ished with long sash ends of silver
ribbon. each terminating in single
tassei, while in the other cases large
silver roses are applique TO the lace
itself. Black ring spotted net is occa-
sionally combined with white foun-
datiOn, but q touch of gold seems al
most as essential in a gown of this de-
scription, tucker of shot green and
gold tissue being a favorite accompa-
niment IN cases where the bodice is
made in the kimono style an edging of
tiny pendant balls of gold represents
a decoration which can hardly be sur
passed, and although this Japanese
style of gown has not achieved wide
spread recognition in the realm of
evening dress, there are not a few &-o-
men to whom il is especially becoming
and who are lOath to discard it.
White is still. of course the only wear
for girl at her first ball, and this sea-
son fashion has ordained that the sim
plicity of the white dress shall be miti-
gated as much as possible by the lovely
raised and padded flowers in white
satin which are applique in the form
of trails to the gown itself and which
give ii a richness which seems hardly
suitable for girl only lust enamel
pated from the school room. Not a few
ball gowns are fashioned of lace, the
pattern picked out with tiny seed pearls
or ODaieScent beads. while flower en- 1
brOideries in glass bugles give a very
light and fairy-like effect to the gown.
One of the prettiest dresses was that
of a soft white mOusseline de sole
worked in a daisy design in concave
pailettes of mother pearl with gold CEN
tiers, the margueriteS being .exaggcr-
ated dimensions round the hem and
graduating in the size of the ordinary.
field daisy on the cOrSage. A swatbed
belt of silver ribbon was fashioned in !
the new style with four ends, two Of !
which fell over the front of the gown !
and two at the back. Those were fin
ished with lattice work and fringe, |
while narrow tucker of silver Ma
lines lace outlined the decolettaga
The private view at Burlington
House is always the first really official |
representation of modes for tie sea- |
SON As an exhibition of new millinery
II may almost be said to outrival the /
vernissage at the salon, and this year
the changes which have been made in /
the modern headgear will be sufficient
ly portrayed Fruit trimmings still /
hold their own against the rapid inva-
sion OF flowers, and the newest recruit |
is represented by medlars shot in two /
colors, bronze being allied to lizard |
green, ultramarine. cerise and purple
clumps of these mediars with thenr
green velvet leaves and woody twigs
being used to encircle the hat As a
general rule, however. different leaves
are substituted for the natural foliage.
both in the case of flowers and fruit.
notified laurel leaves still retaining
first place in the affections of the mil
liner, while the pale greenish grsy
foliage of the thistle combines rlost
happily with rosy-cheeked apples or
even grapes and apples in fancy shades.
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