Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-03-05 | Page 22 | Style Shops Set Stage for Best Show in History

Style tyle Shops Set i. i f S Stage tage for f or Best B est j Show in History i I 1 Petticoats e Return to Claim Place in Fashions Fashion's I j F- F Circle Many Varieties Offered Dates Are U Fixed for Spring Openings Opening in i in Salt Lake St Stores res- res t. t f OMEN who vho think that that- Dame F Fashion hast has t told old ld all she has in W WOMEN store for them th this s spring have just one one week week in which to s change tl their ir n minds Bec Because use at the end of that week Salt Satt Lakes Lake's t annual spring spring- fashion fashion show is due to commence comm ce It is then that I Salt Salt Lake Lake women will see what th the local style shops really have in store for them For weeks there has been more more of or l less ss' ss talk about fashions and creations and revelations in spring ng attire Even Eve all this gossip ft has nas has has' failed to describe all aU that is to be offered be-offered offered to the shopping pub pub- been whisperings of is to with the lie lic i It has only what formal advent of the spring season S' S j One thing thing-is certain Dame Fashion h has s some surprises left L' L She hasn't told everything Some of the thc new spring finery has not even reached the stores yet But it is is being rushed and aDd when the fashion show op opens ens March 13 93 it it is expected that the Salt Salt Lake display of springs spring's latest will be as complete as that of any city in the the- the West i b Fashions can be talked whispered I j even een shouted in clarion tones but it Iii R takes lakes a fashion show to bring home to 1 the woman buyer all the glittering allurements alI al al- 1 I of the new styles i- i And that is Just what is happening here Salt Lake women have heard of the new spring creations They have seen many of them in the display display dis dis- play play windows of the local stores for the Sie local merchants have not been 1 1 slow to show their new nev goods as they t 1 arrived from the east cast Still there ismore is ismore more to to come and it remains for the 0 Fashion Fashion show to give Salt Lake women women wo wo- women men a general knowledge of what's what hat for spring Petticoats Return On One thing seems certain and that thatIs f. f Is that petticoats are arc part and parcel of Springs Spring's offering Not so long ago petticoats belonged in chests and other other other oth- oth er dark recesses They were almost extinct on on the tho street That decree of Dame Fashion played havoc with the manufacturers but fashion hews to the theline line no matter where the chips fall faU Hence the petticoat went its lonely u II way nay an outcast of fashion t o I But all of this is ancient history K That is all in the past The petticoat petticoat petti petti- coat has been reinstated The well dressed woman may now wear a petticoat pet with no danger of a sneer from Fashion As a matter of fact tact the Ule petticoat an essential part of the spring ward ward- robe according to the latest decree of of Fashion Its absence this spring will mark the same antiquity that its presence did a year ago Without the petticoat you will find that something is missing by the way the skirt hangs in uneven and slinking fashion about the figure The new fashionable skirt contour is deceptive It appears more spreading than Ulan it is For Afternoon Wear I t For the average afternoon spring gown which has plenty of fullness corded ruffles on a well shaped petticoat petticoat petticoat petti petti- coat are indispensable When a dress Is of too light weight material to standout stand standout out by itself the need of a petticoat or skeleton skirt is apparent The skeleton skeleton ton skirt is m made de on the hoop order and is worn under the dress or another petticoat Tailored suits of the morning or sport type do not run to excessive width of skirt In the new ones that are more than three yards around the hem the extra is hidden in flat pressed pleats which fly out only when the wearer moves or walks A petticoat to go under such suits therefore there there- fore tore has generally few or no ruffles A A slight flare gained by corded and the clever shape of the petticoat gives Just enough but not a bit too much bell to supS support sup sup- S port the outer skirt for the outer skirt J of even the more tailored type no longer looks right because of its cir clr- cular and gored cut when it slinks in about the figure Some of the new taffeta petticoats are made with a flat front panel This preserves the flat fiat front look which some of the new tailored afternoon Continued on page 7 7 I STYLE SHOPS r Continued from page 6 6 6 skirts have Many new models even among the Imported ones retain an excessive at the sides