Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-07-12
SERAPHIC SARATOGA.
Fashions At the American Spa As Seen Through
the Glasses OF LOCKER on.

the classes OF . LOCKER on.
Special Correspondence.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, July, S.-Being
at their wits end for variety, manu-
featuring milliners brought out innita-
tons 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 top. they are popular as a
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 satins and
gloves of unearthly lengths at eleven
o'clock in the morning. But, fortu-
nately for womankind, these satin-at-
tired people are minority revolved
around by ordinary humanity, Ordi-
nary humanity sometimes wears not
only shells but baskets on their more
common heads. say baskets because
the straw is in palpable imitation OF
a basket and in modified copying as
far as shape goes.
Never were elements more mixed
than in this very mixed place. A rev.
erend sitting complacently beside q
sport; travelling ulster
WALKING INTO TEA
before a brocade wrought with flowers
foot long and showing all colors. So
come along. you whose outfit consists
of an ulster and black silk. Come
along, and provided you do not stay
to 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 a poetical
mood of the lines,
'Some in rags some in bags,
And some in velvet gowns"
Looking at people is our great occupa-
ton, for this is, as you know, great
collection of hotels, and have heard
it debated whether the hotels make
Saratoga or Saratoga makes the hotels.
Certain it is that the certainty of good
accommodation has more to do with
bringing crowds than the waters.
Good tea and coffee, New York beef
steak, the lightest and most wholesome
bread, cake and biscuit ever tasted,
made they say from Horsford's baking
powder, and other things i'll keeping.
So being well fed, everybody is in good
humor and looks around to see
what everybody else is doing and wear
ing.
JERSEYS.
The fact tLat jerseys on jerseys are
here leads me to write discourse upon
them, since revelation lies before
you, my good friend, if you have never
worn one. You know not what it is to
wear waist in which you are really
and truly comfortable; in which you can
reach up to pick that high bunch of
cherries or those flowers just too far to
touch; in which you can feel like an ami
mated human being, yet at the same
time dressed. The jersey "gives" you
see, and in that giving" properly lies
the secret of its grip upon us. Yet all
the while. there is scarce anything that
presents the trim, tidy look that jer-
sey does, fitting like wax if properly
kept down, easily done by sewing on a
half dozen leads beneath the bottom
hem. Do this for the jersey and the
jersey will do the rest, remaining in its
place and giving you no further anxiety.
Improvements are now made also by
ornamentations of braidings, plaitings
at the back. etc., so that ones figure
need not be too severely shown off.
Babyishly innocent-looking are those
little cap-shaped bonnets made of white
lace or muslin. Sometimes mixed with
velvet ribbon or bedecked by flowers,
but as often in an entire white SIM
plicity.
PLENTY OF WHITE DRESSES
likewise, but white is poor thing to
depend upon, so VIC see pretty and
practical costumes of China silk; thin
enough to cause one to feel like GU
cumber, while in dark shades of hue,
brown, green, ETC., they defy, the in
roads of dust or mud. As monotony
dispelling element likewise, come the
chine silks; dexterously tempered to suit
an ardent midsummer. Gayly tenn
pered too are the Swiss muslins dotted
in colors, chiefly red and these, whether
in entire costumes or as overdresses
with silk skirts, are the jauntiest out
fits imaginable; the more SO as lavish
use of ribbon bows this season gives
opportunity for all manner of coquet-
fish and unexpected turns and twist
ings.
Morning, noon and night, we see veil
ing dresses. Perhaps because yelling
is a material capable of such transfer
nations, according to combinations,
WAYS OF MAKING
or accessories. Nothing simpler than a
simple dress of yelling if you wish it:
nothing more captivatingly jaunty if
jauntiness be demanded, while for even
ing there are qualities of yelling so ex-
tremely thin that the name seems an
irony. There is much accomplished
again by diversities of color since cherry
red, blue and other cheerful hues are
represented, not only in solid styles but
in stripes, as for example, costume
worn by Miss Astor. A bunchy red
yelling overdress with underskirt OF
broad red striped yelling. She prom
enaded arm in arm with Miss Lorillard
who was very simply dressed in q
cherry red spotted muslin. Both young
ladies are slender and dark-haired, sc
It's needless to add their selection:
were becoming. Economical people
who put away instead of throwing
away their ecru batistes which went 81
entirely out some years ago, can now
re-appear fashionably attired in them
re-made as polonaises over silk skirts