Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-17
tspeciaI correspondence.l

ONDON, July 7.-Ultra- smart
Americans are going in strong
for simplicity Just now--the
simplicity of the muslin gown
more costly than cloth of gold and the
acme of da.ltiness-in which the wear
er looks like a Dresden china figure,
the iloveliest of them all being Mrs.
John Jacob Aston with her beautiful
white hair and her daring hats a
iconnoisseur in frocks who was at As
cot on the gold cup day said that the
white muslin frocks worn blythe Coun-i
tess of Granard, Mrs. John Jacob AS
tor. and Lady Alastair lines -ker must
have cost at least $500 apiece. Mrs.
Actor always sets some fashion when
she comes over here This time she
has given q lease of life to the Irish
crochet polonaise--a delightful garment
not IA scrap like the usual polonaise. 1t!
is semi-fitting without dizziness and
though not actually shortwaisted is
suggestive thereof. Wonderful jeWelled
buttons are stuck here and there and
lit is worn over white muslin frock
which is more than half composed OF
Va1encienneS lace. These frocks and
polonaises arc mounted over the soft
est chiffon to tighten the effect Mrs.
John Jacob Astor wears with her little
white dresses the inevitable touch of
black expressed in huge chiffon rose,
a big chou of velvet with Il diamond
center or her black pearl necklace
Her hair seems whittier than ever this
year and her skin more dazzling, She
Isl still the most charming picture inn
aginable "only more So" as an Irish
man expressed it.
Lady Granard's gorgeous muslin
frockss are profusely adorned with Irish
crochet. They are stunning. and She
too fayors the dash of black. The hem
of a fiounce will have a fold OF black
satin or PANEL orin her huge Ieghorn
hat with its scarf of old lace Will be
tucked II black chiffon rose.
EVERY THREAD HANDWORKED.
Another of the American ladies who
4fayors the emblem of blameleSs life
In frocks is Lady Alastair lnnes-Ker.
Hers are masses of costly embroidery
every thread of which is handworked.
1t is to those of the quaint old world
over that Lady Alastair grants her
Il v
and are just the sweetest things i'm
aginable When worn by a pretty wo-s
man as young as this possible duchess,
they suggest most fascinatingly an
overSrown baby
II Leghorn or big black or white chip
hats with n single rose as large as
tcaulifjowera are the correct trimming.
Equally orthodox is the waving osprey
hut the ostrich feathers are at this
hour deniode. | saw n great bunch of
white osprey the other day which was
being fixed into a hat for an extreme
Fiy wealthy American woman named
gC;rogan. The Inilliner assured me the
OSPREY alone cost SOS. 1t filled up all
one side and fell we'll over the crown
and the back of the hat. In 1T there
( were as many plumes as are ordinarii-s
aly used on a dozen hats; nevertheless
ii did not look excessive. This chapeau
was ordered especially for the Anglo
American polo match and Il few peo-
pie told about the amazing creation
went especially to see it and not the
polo.
While ascending to a dinner party in
an elevator at some well known hats
Lady CheyIesmore got an exquisite
white satin frock covered with coal
dust In the fiat in question there IS
an imperative order that coal must
be delivered before eight in the morn
ing. One of the inmates neglected to
order her Goals and finding herself
without any told the cook that she
must smuggle some in somehow. She
did so in n brown paper bag and was
bringing it up in the elevator, a self
working arrangement whensSthe bag
burst She gathered UP the pieces as
Well as she could, leaving the dust be-
hind and ran away TO her mistresses
+ fiat as fast as her legs could carry,
/ her Some time later Lady Cheyles-,
,,,r,r.. = ~, farf1 the fptpya IIefEfpel-J
ings can be imagined when she saw
the state of her dress. she was per-
fectiy good-tempered about 1t. Some
body suggested arroWroot rubbed on to
absorb the dirt; this method proved
so successful that, Lady Cheylesmore
WAS able to go on to her next big
party.
MISS CALHOUNtSs DEBUT.
Miss Julia Calhouu's debut was cutie