The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-01
THE SUMMER GIRL.
Green Grass Hats and Big Para
sOls-- Lawn tennis.

S0lS.-- Lawn tennis.
It is timely to consider the summer
girl. She knows pretty we'll now what
she is going to wear. A June specimen
can any moment be found on the
Broadway promenade. She is type
of current elegance, quite devoid of ex-
aggeration, and yet exemplifying sew
eral new ideas in fashions. Her bonnet
is one of the approved shapes, and her
manner of filling its high pointed front
with fluff OF her own hair is an inno-
walton. She also expresses neatly
new notion of using q single
material for a whole dress. This
is a small fact as compared with
the greater one, that of employing
different and often incongruous colorS
and embodying them in one toilet. She
belongs to the few who dislike to be in
accord with the many, and are there
fore ahead of the majority. The fabric
of her gown is wool of very light gray
The black lace around her neck and
down herffontis in accordance with the
newest use of lace as an EN- hellishment.
She is type of the neat and quiet sum-
mer girl of 1888. If she were not pretty
she would easily pass unuoticed among
many more gaudy creatures in the
throng. No more than a rod behind
her saunters a young woman in a
sombreIo hat maze of very fine. light
felt, and with its brim rolled up
coquetishly in front. Her hair is cut
off suQarely at the ends, and left
hanging loose to a point trile
below her neck. Thus her
whole head lacks only a moustache to
be an idealization of Buffalo Bill.
Such hats are likely to be worn con-
siderably during the hot weather at the
resorts, and they viii be serviceable as
shades as well as admirable for pic
turesqueness; but in the city they are
entirely 100 extraVsgant, and one is apt
to rate the wearer as a social scout of
too daring a character. The number
and variety OF wide brimmed hats is as
great as the many strange ways in
which the brims are bent. They are
turned up in front, at the back, or ct
the sides; some have wide winglike
side brims, others have the front ex-
cessivelv wide and straight, and many
of the Tuscan straw cspelines have toe
brim held down by the strings. Masses
of trimming, generally ribbon and
flowers, are heaped on these.
Green grass hats have had a curions
and humorous boom. The desire to
wear something unique and exclusive to
herself is strong in the circle of
fashionable women, who are consplcu-
Gus and independent enough to make
their own styles in measure. There is
an attempt to introduce the outlanGish
Tosca, or DireCtoire, parasol handles.
These consist of very long crooks, and
are intended to be walked with. after
the manner of The ladies of Louis XVI s
court with their canes. They are neces-
sarily awkward, and will not stay in
even the amount of favor they have
achieved. If a women be past youth
fulness, and of stalwart physique, carry
ing such G. heavy-handled parasol
makes her look like an Amazon armed
with a war club. If she be young and
delicate, she looks as though over
burdened. In any event she would have
to costume herself as a shepherdess
and take sheep or two along in order
to make an agreeable impression.
Lawn tennis is a diversion in which
the summer girl usually allows herself
wide latitude. This season she will
pretty generally take to the blouse
waists. These are an importation from
England, not from Paris or Berlin, and
our bellies have been slow to put them
on for ordinary occasions of dress, but
a round of the more fashionable dress
making establishments convinces one
that they will be adopted generally for
lawn tennis playing, in place of the by
gone Jersey waists. They are equally
conducive to an expression of plixbility
and their seeming Iooseness conveys an
impression of even greater suppleness
than the jersey impaired. Sad to say,
however, they are likely to inuuce tight
laclng, instead Of the ease of stays
which their appearance suggests. The
girl who cannot comfortably wear an
18inch belt or less with a blouse,
Manages to do so by means of violent
compression, and so the lawn tennis
player may not be what she seems as
to the untrammeled condition of her
clothes.