Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-06
ON A SARATOGA PIAZZA
Devices of Ladies' to Attract Personal
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Stockings and
Dainty Slippers.
Saratoga Letter.

Saratoga Letter.
Inc summer loiterer at Saratoga who
has been here for a week and has saun.
tered along its beautifully shaded streets
on series of lazy local excursions will
probably find himself at the end of that
time strangely intimate with the fashions
IN ladies' shoes and slippers. He will
Know the various shapes, designs and
cOlorS, though not by their appropriate
names perhaps. Indeed, the visitor is
not infrequently haunted with the suspic.
ion that he is called to the shoemaker
trade.
Every house in Saratoga has piazza.
1t is usually out of all proportion to the
size OF the house, suggesting that the
house belongs to the piazza rather than
the piazza belongs to the house. These
plazzas are built for the most part so that
their floors are on level with the eyes of
the passing pedestrian, and on their broad
eXpanse the entire boarding house or small
hotel, as the case may be, sits at large dur
ing the daylight hours. This open-air ses-
sion Is interrupted by occasional trims to
the dlnlng-roOm of the establishment. 10
Saratoga Battle-Ground. to Mount Nc
Gregor, and other nearby points on the
part OF individual members, but a ma
Jorlty are always present. The new ar
rival who strOlls through the town finds
VI bAbJ UOOto DOhGu dL Ulllls
Naturally he sees larger boots, too. but
having seen them all his life he takes no
notice OF them. The new arrival takes
further strolls, and in a short time dis
covers, If he pOnders over the subject. that
he has made distinct advance in knoWl-
edge on the subject of feminine footwear.
Il can draw all the fashionable shapes
IN Shoes" said young man today.
"Ihese tightly-laced boots with red seal
skin i'll the uppers on either side of the
lacing are very much worn. Button
boots are common. The school teachers
here 90 around in them. Oxford ties are
faYorites, but there wonderful and gor-
geous variety of slippers. There are
DAINTY dressed alligator slippers and
French kid ones, heavily beaded in all
manners of color and design; there are
cloth ones, magnificently embroid-
cred, and sealskin of all cOlors; there are
Louis Quinze heels and fiat heels, pointed
toes and broad toes. The Cuban
ladies, and there are hum
dreds of them, wear the most splen-
did specimens of slippers l ever saw.
They are of French kid and the bead-work
ON them is intricate and marvelouslv
lovely. And what pretty feet they put
into them! Sensible young American girls
wear the shoes with Droadest soles and
fattest heels. The last generation of
girls, who are now passe and threatened
with single blessedness, indulge in Louis
Qulnze heels and toes pointed almost
sharply enough to write with 1t is a
study to see them walk. l do not wonder
that there are three chirOpodists in town
and that they are all doing a big busi-
ness"
This young man had an eye for the
beautiful. The ordinary traveller who
goes over the ground will see a mass
meeting OF the products of the Crispin art
which for mingled splendor and ugliness
VIII dwarf fair at IA negro church into
insigniticance.
There is a freedom of movement about
the American girl which has been re-
marked upon repeatedly. NOtWithstand-
ing these piazzas are built so peculiarly,
ana that the dWellers on them are cOnse-
quently brought into public notice. the
American maiden swings about her feet
with spirit, independence, and what Oscar
Wilde would describe as perfect ioyous-
ness. The Saratoga maiden, or rather
the maiden from Oshkosh, temporarily
resident at Saratoga, has, moreover, a
most reprehensible fondness for the large
cane rOcking-chairs which a manutactOTv
III Massachusetts sells here by the thou
sand. She sits in it for hours at time:
she rocks backwards and forwards with
force and energy.
The fashionable stockings here are
black silk. Some girls wear brown and
dark blue, but the really stylish damseIs
wear them as black as night. And it can
not but be admitted thata prettiIv-turned
ankle seems to win dainty gracefulness
Of moulding from this dark yet delicate
covering. In the matter of stockings it is
to be remarked that it is the very YOUTH
ful and most blooming of the gentle sex
who wear the sombre tints, and
it is the older specimens-the same
who wear Louis Quinze heels-Who
encase their more ancient limbs
in gaudy tints and still tOIer-
ate the elaborate clOcking that was so
generally favored several years ago. For
tunately for human happiness, however.
the numbers OF passe young ladies and
lncIpIent old maids are small, and there
fore the display OF stockings is not a daz.
zling one. In fact, stranger would
probably declare after miles walk along
the plazzas that the whole town was in
mourning. And it would take another
miles walk among the shops to rid him of
the idea.
Long Branch, Asbury Park, Cape Nav.
and other faVOrite resorts along the New
Jersey coast, are faithfully putting forth
the entire programme of their attractions
TO lure summer wanderers to their sands.
anu III hOiAlS 81 particular emphasis is
laid on the elegance, the varied color. and
the abbreviated nature of the bathing
dresses to be viewed at leisure on the
beach. have read some few hundred
descriptions of these interesting gar
ments and have enjoyed some
fascinating details touching the
1.-the and graceful figures thus
becomingly attired-how they stretch
themselves on the sands and roll ahout in
playful curves; how they suddenly dis
appear beneath the paighhOring waves,
when wondr0usly lovely outlines are lost
and then revealed and lost again, or ten
derby yelled beneath the shImmering and
sunlit waters. l have never met with
one who has beheld these visions OF female
beauty, and it is believed that the most
substantial originate 10 be found for the
descriptions so frequently printed are the
cOlored French pictures on bathing sub
lects which are displayed on the walls of
some uptown "sample rooms,"