The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-01-19
What Paris Means to
Wear at Dinners and
Dances and the New
Fabrics for Elaborate
Daytime Costume

The two parts of the oversklrt arm
embroidered with crystals and sesA
pearls.
It Is the bodice that sho~s ons
OF my novel Spring Ideas. NotIcs
the drapery forming the lower hs}f
of the sleeve and bodice. u IA
merely wide band OF the crystal
and pearl embroidery, caught N
the breast and in the centre baet
with wonderful ornament a
green, crystal and rose sequina.
The bodice itself is Of the net.
II Is absolutely simple IN deslsa
and treatment. The ornaments
near each shoulder are vivid smsr
aid green stones. There Is 10
color about this costume but that
given by the jeweled ornamental
Even the most familiar fabrics
seem to have acquired new charm
and colors this season and 60
to have become doubly Inspiring
IN effect and delightful in wear.
Crepe de chine, for example
frequently displays now rather
dull, slightly roughened surface
which brings subtle lights and shad-
ings into It's colors, without beins
actually shot" tho new name for
this new make being Crepe tar.
tare."
Taf1etae, too, in order TO keep jua
a little Of the favor which Ia heiag
wrested from IL by dull-surlaced
satins and rich and withal soft
moires (of very indefinite markings),
is displaying itself in the fine hair
cord effects which are sufficiently
old to be accounted new, this
being the type OF silk which was
fashionable some twenty years aga
Chiffon, too, is made distinctly
stronger as we'll as more attractive
by its new and slightly "crepy'
finish: but for all this it is being
obliged TO give pTecedence-as re-
CARDS popularity-to fine silk Allen
con and Breton nets, which are
being much used both for inter.
mediate veilings and outer drap-
cries where evening dresses ara
concerned.
AS TO the ninons, they are alto
eether exquisite and never befora
has the filmy fabric been called
upon TO bear the light burden Of
such beautiful designs. Any mum
ber are interviewer with either
shimmering and shadowy or de1-
nitely bright gold or silver threads
{indeed, the rage for metallic effects
OF all kinds Increases daily, and
I have found inspiration for several
new models in, Tor instance, sea-
green ninon on which strangs
flowers unfold their silver petals,
and again in a glorious cerias
whose bold scrolls and knots Of
gold are divided By double rows o.
shining spots.
A white ninon, too, is lovely ~
showing first broad band OF faint
" pink and blue and mauve flowers
with their attendant and dellcatag
green foliage, and then another
6oral stripe all broidered in gold
while in some Of the Orientslg
suggestive schemes OF color / ind
a special JOY. An earth brown
ninon there is, which IS warmed
into brightness by wavering lines
nj gold which also set on the orignt.
ness OF quantity shaped and tgureo
discs OF silk in pale and deep blues
and greens, Indian red, black apa
white. Can you realize some!nlAs
OF the erect of this color comoiaS
ton, | wonder? I hope SO. and aiso
that / can bring before you he
beauty OF faint Chinese o!ue On
which device Of deeper blue
,nterwover with deep bronze anu
male gold threads, and the mo9
elusive tints Of mauve and green.
Many niaons there are. too wl!Gs s;s
iugt mako background for ooios
raised design Of velvet. tins oslagi 1.;
indeed. one OF the most sqccessiu,
means of securing the richness ~
erect of the most fashionaoie ~
fabrics and the absolute eoltnss'
and suppleness so essential for tn'
fraped styles now in vogue.