Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1883-07-12
Saratoga Styles.
SHELLS AND BASKETS-A VERY MIXED
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ABROAD
MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT.

At their wits end for variety, manu-
featuring milliners brought out limitations of
those well-known shells which commence
small on one side and spread out in fan like
style and slightly concave. Laden with
ribbons and flowers on the top they are
popular as shade hat for children and
sometimes also for ladies', though hardly
dressy enough to have run for the latter in
this distressingly dressy place, where people
sit in pink or white satns and gloves of un-
earthly lengths at eleven o'clock in the
morning. But, fortunately for womankind,
these satin-attred people are a minority
revolved around BY ordinary humanity
Ordinary humanity sometimes wears not
only shells but baskets on then more com
mon heads. | say baskets" because the
straw is in palpable imitation of a basket
and in modified copying as far as shape
goes.
| VERY MIXED PLACE.
| Never were elements more mixed than
in this very mixed place. A reverend sitting
complacently beside a sport travelling
ulster walking into tea before brocade
wrought with flowers foot long and showing
all colors. So come along. YOU whose outfit
along, and provided YOU do not stav too
long YOU may be credited with lots Of pretty
things in your trunk which YOU are taking
on somewhere else. One is reminded when
in poetical mood Of the lines,
''Some in rags. some in bags,
| And some in velvet gowns
for this is, as you know, great collection
of hotels, and have heard 1t debated whether
the hotels make Saratoga or Saratoga makes
the hotels. Certain it is that the certainty
Of good accommodation has more 10 do with
/ bringing crowds than the waters Good tea
and coffee, New York beefsteak the lighte st
and most wholesome bread, cake and biscuit
ever tasted, made they say from Horsfor d ;
bread preparation, and other things in
keeping. So being well fed, everybody is
IN good humor and look, around to see
what everybody else is doing and wearing.
JERSEYS.
lhe fact that Jerseys on jerseys are
here leads me 10 write discourse upon
them. Since a revelation lies before you
my good friend if you have never worn one
iou know not what il il to wear a waist in
which YOU are really and truly comfortable ;
| in which YOU can reach up and pick that high
bunch of cherries or those flowers lust too
far to touch; in which YOU can feel like an
animated human being, vet at the same time
dressed. The jersey gives" YOU see, and
and IN that giving" property lies the secret
OF It's grip upon us. Yet all the while, there
IS scarce anything that presents the trim,
tidy look that jersey does, fitting like wax
i property kept down, easily done by sewing
on half dozen leads beneath the bottom
hem. DO this for the jersey and the Jersey
viii do the rest, remaining in its place and
giving YOU no further anxiety. improvements
are now made also by ornamentations of
bradings, plaitings at the back etc, so that
ones figure need not be too severely shown
of.
lNNoCENTS ABROAD.
Bahyishly innocent looking are those lit
Tie capshaped bonnets made Of white lace
or muslin. Sometimes mixed with velvet
ribbon, or bedecked BY flowers, but as often
in an entire white simplicity. Plenty of
white dresses likewise, but white is poor
thing to depend upon, so we see pretty and
practical costumes of China silk; thin
enough to cause one to feel like cucumber
while in dark shades of blue. brown green.
etc, they defy the nroads Of dust or mud.
As monotony dispelling element likewise.
come the chime silks; refined looking in their
half-clouded colorngs dexterously tenn
pered TO suit an ardent midsummer Gay
~ tempered too are the Swiss muslins dot
ted IN coorS, chiefly red, and these, wheth-
er IN entire costumes or as overdresses with
silk skirts, are the jauntest outfits imagn-
able; the more so as a lavish use of ribbon
bows tins season gives opportunity for all
manner Of coquettish and unexpected turn,
and twistings.
MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT,
we see yelling dresses. Perhaps because
yelling is material capable of such trans
formations. according to combinations, WAYS
of making or accessories. Nothing simpler
than simple dress of yelling if YOU wish
IT. nothing more captivatingly jaunty if
jauntiness be demanded, while for evening
there are qualities of yelling so extremely
thin that the name seems an irony There
is much accomplished again by diversities of
color since cherry red blue and other cheer
ful hues are represented not only in solid
styles but in stripes as for example, cos
tune worn by Miss Astor. A bunchv, red
yelling overdress with underskirt of broad
red striped yelling. She promenaded arm
in arm with Miss Lorilard who was very
simply dressed in cherry red spotted mus
lin. Both young ladies are slender and
dark haired, so It's needless to add their
selections were becoming Economical peo-
pie who put away instead Of throwing away
their ecru batistes which went so entirely out
some years ago, can now re-appear fashion,
ably attired in them; re-made as polonaises
over silk skirts. Colored dots or sprays are
especially il vogue.