Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-07-01
Fashions chat come and 90 have no reason for

Fashions that come and go have no reason for
their existence beyond the desire to make SEN
sation create a novelty, or do something differ
ent from last year. The bathing dress always con-
sists of the blouse and the trowsers the former
beted in and cut with but little fullness as this
last not only adds to the weight but renders the
skirt more liable to fly up from the body on the
water and encumbers without protecting it.
The foreign bathing dresses are we'll shaped and
some of them are made in the princesse fashion
(whole) without skirt, the waist belted in
broadly. with piece OF the blue and white
stripe that forms the collar. The legs are cut
OH little below the knees, and the sleeves are
short: but, as remarked, ladies are not in their
bathing dresses except in the water. The bath
ing machines run down on wheels into the
waves and go after the bathers at signal
Here 1t Is very different, and no modest girl or
woman would think of cutting her bathing
dress in such fashion unless her bathing place
was private and secluded. The difficulty of find
ing ready-lnade really good and permanent de-
signs in what should be so simple an outfit as "a
bathing dress is well known. and for this reason
it is much better to buy the material and make
il up to suit individual tastes. The cost will
probably be more, but the satisfaction will be
greater. and the dress will be good for several
seasons instead of one. The prettiest dresses of
the season are OF dark blue, trimmed with light
blue and white stripe; collar narrow at the
back, but coming down into deep. square cor
ners in front; broad belt of the trimming, and
band above pleating of the flannel.
THE LAST OF THE HOUSE OF A. T. STEWART.
This week closes up the great house of A. T.
Stewart Il Co., which tor sixty years has exercised
an enormous influence upon the trade in women's
wear in New York city, and, indeed, throughout
the whole country. 1t has been ptiful sight
for weeks to see the ruin which has come upon
colossal structure built up with so much care
and tended with so much pride by its original
owner 1t would have been lesson for women
also to have seen what those things were
that lost their value and became so much trum-
perry when the glamour of the fictitious idea i'm
regard to ''style" and fashion was taken away
from standard articles. Common linens and
hosiery, and gloves and fine fabrics of pure
quality, maintained their price, and were at
very small reduction. if any. But the fancy
goods-the gilt-edge buttons, the many-colored
parasols, the featheredged fans-went for what
they would bring. and were dear at any price
For months past the formerly great house. with
It's armies of attendants has been gradually de-
nuded OF its statesmen and superintendent. as
well as its choice goods. and in their places are
the cash boys, who stand behind the counters
and do their best with the curious medley OF
bargain-hunters. 1t has been pitiful sight and
those who have known Stewards" and to whom
it has been a household word for nearly half
century, wish it had stopped in its glory, and
been spared this humiliation
JENNIE JUNE.