Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-07-01
THE WORLD OF FASHION.
New York and Paris Styles Tor July.
How We Spend June-The Summer
ENOdus-A Coming OluttOm-The
Long and the short Of It-StyIes for
sarat0ga-Bathing Dresses, ETC., etc,
From our Fashion correspondent

sarHa0ga-BathtngD Dresses, etc, etc
From our Fashion Correspondent
NEw YORK, June, le30. - People who rush
out OF the city at the first breath Of summer lose
the finest month in the year for enjoying its
pleasures. The roses of June climb brick walls
as luxuriantly as wooden ralings, the grass is
as green, and is more valued, because there Is
less OF 1t, bile the very streets, white and
from spring showers, blossom out into so m any
gay parei res Of flowers, and rejoice at the fresh
toilettes which transform their dullness into so
charming panorama.
June, moreover, Is not only the month of roses
and strawb berries, but Of picnics and country ex-
cursions. Not a square block can be trayersesi
upon any Of these fine mornings without meet
ing troops OF shining children, with waved
blonde hair, wide sasbes tied over pique dresses
and lunch baskets, hurrying TO the place of
church and Sabbath school rendeSrous; or con-
pies, and parties Of ladies and ntlemen, ''holi-
day" written i'm every line OF their laughing
faces, and ripping in every fold Of the ladies'
dresses, going on a boating or yachting excur-
sion, or to spend day with q friend in the
country, and If you could take a clairvoyant
look at them a few hours later, you would see
them coquetting on some pretty lawn in West
chester county, or gathering shells and muscles
on the shores of Staten Island. Yet the city IS
not without its pleasure, IL is not LETT entirely
desolate at least during the first summer
months. The Strawberries commence earlier
and stay later than in any one locality in the
country, and the fresh fruits follow each other
so closely, and exhibit such profusion that the
stone sidewalks, instead of the brown earth.
would seem to be their natural home.
THE SUMNER STAMPEDE.
The usual summer exodus has commenced
but this season il finds its way less 30 Europe
than to the many localities worth visiting in our
couple of months ago lady sent TO Worth,
the Paris dressmaker, for a spring costume OF
the very latest style Four weeks later she re-
ceiyed it, an ordinary suit OF changeable silk, of
style which had already been transferred, at
o., COunteP.
was found unstable. Imagine her mortifca-
ton at paying four times the amount the dress
would have cost if she had purchased the mate
rial and had il made in the best style here! To
finish up the measure of her ANNOYANCE the suit
was accompanied by spring hat of grey felt.
exactly like those which have been worn ali
winter in New York, and which had already
given place to lace, straw, and chip of quite diff.
ferent design. OF course. she did not obtain
much sympathy, and she had the pleasure OF
seeing her friends displaying charming and dis
tinguished Charlotte Corday' and Pamela,
bonnets, with their exquisite now toilettes of
silk and crepe de chimes, while she rustled in that
"horrid changeable thing" and melted In her
warm felt hat, (which had cost toe much to per-
init her to buy another,D her only consolation
that her costume was sfresh from Parisv
REVOLUTION In FASHION.
The question Of fashion has not yet come to a
crisis, but some time or other IL will do So and
the result viii be much greater freedom and
hberality regarding the dress Of women.
Partisan lOrrettes and dreesmakers do not in
the least understand that the times are changing
that the sceptre is passing out of their hands
folly and degradation of following like pack of
hounds the hue and cry of paid whippers-in:
that they are beginning to realize, in this coun-
than the woman that wears 1t; that the question
Of dress should be sub0rdinated TO the larger
question of duties; that all women are not reign
unprincipled men, and cannot therefore AFFORD
to crafty caprice at the expense Of every obli-
CATION.
Fashion which changes with every breath,
which knows no law except compliance with
the demand for novelty and the qualification of
every passing fancy, Is only fit for women who
are above or out Of pale Of the usual exigencies
they cannot be tried by the usual standards, or
held amenable TO the usual tribunal Of public
opinion.
The mass of women are beginning to under
stand that life was not given to us wholly for
selfish purposes, but for the performance Of GER
tain duties, and that these perpetual changes in
dress not only trivial and silly, but criminal,
because they absorb time, means, and energy
which are required in other directions. To
sensible locker on could anything be more alb
surd than the changes every few weeks or
to pufs, and from puffs back to ruffies again;
but, then, there IL Q most important difference
between the ruffies of the last and the rufies OF
the first; dressmakers solemnly announce it,
ladies hear ii with little shrek, thinking of
the dress recently made, not yet worn, but which
IL ruff1ed in the new old style.
Why, rutfies are no longer gathered; they are
pleated, laid in single pleats, all running one
ssOh, but" says some experienced mother OF
several little ones, "that will be 60 inconvenient
for ironing; gathered ruffics upon washing
dresses iron 80 much easier" Cant help it,
madam, !" Is the reply "pleated rufiee are the
Women are always dying Of something or
other. One time IL Is their shoes another time IL s
tight laciDg; q third time before hoops came in
to fashioB) the weight Of skirts upon the hips;
Positively Of half the women who are dying, 4
believe two-thirds are sick Of rufhes or some
such thing. The amount Of trimming upon one
ordinary suit 10 enough in q few years 70 put
any woman INTO lunatic asylum who felt pouhu
to keep step to % frantic . tune, and could net
them.
LONG SKIRTS.
Undou btedly there will be an enort made
to revive trailing skirts for the street. but ~ yet
there is no evidence Of IL upon ho sne promenade;
custo med TO wearing very long indoor dresses,
are having black grenadines, summer ilks, and
fissues made short for the house, roservinR the
demi-train exclusively for evening wear. At
very fashionable wedding recently, the brides
tiress Was Of white gros-graSa covered with
hounces and tunic of costly lace, it Law
oply about eight inches upon the ground
while the bridesmaids, of white grenadine,
trimmed with blue wire short. The costumes
we're competed by short ba.ques Of white lace
tied In with blue sashes, and bonnets Of white
lace trimmed with trail Of blue foreet-me-
nots, mingled with dark leaves. The bride Alone
wore veil arranged nearly to envelop her en-
tire form, and fastened by Vatican wreath of
orange blossoms mixed with small white bridal
lofty fates that preeide over our dressee will
condescend to hold o feathers weight a9ainst