Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-09-08
the established rules in good taste in

the established rules IN good taste IN
colors are transgressed.
Sometimes the breakage of artistic
laws is accompanied by mitigating cir
cumstances, as in the second illustra-
ton, where the bodice and overskirt
were of quiet gray, while the stripings
of white, dark purple and light yellow
were confined to the underskirt. Girls
look as though dressed for lawn ten
mis-, and this loudness has led to o
great deal of outright fagrancy in cos
tunes. Girls at the larger seashoro
hotels, where formerly they would not
think of going into the dining
room in the same clothes which
they had worn at lawn tennis, now
appear at table in dresses suitable only
for the game. Good prophets in the
matter of fashions assure me that there
will be violent revulsion of feeling in
tho fall, and that this summer of ex-
travagance makes climax, to be fol-
loved by complete reformation. That
is to say, we shall in the fall have our
women clad in quiet colors and some.
thing nearer to natural outlines than
those lately exhibited We probably
shall not return to the droopiness OF
astheticism, but we shall present our
selves in something like symmetrical
form. l get a confirmation of this pre-.
diction in the fact that importers OF
dress goods are striving to rid them
selves of their stocks of bright colors
and that the samples of next seasons
goods seem dull and plain enough-when
compared with the high hues of the
present.
Speaking of fanciful fashions brings
to mind few of the new ideas for jew
elrv and other articles. People have
great craze at present for all kinds o.
pretty trifes wherewith to adorn them.
selves and their rooms; and personal
q lornment being the first consideration
with the majority of women, l may first
mention the odds and ends designed foI
that purpose. Next to combs and orna
mental pins-which are now almost in
dispensable to ones hair-dressing ar,
rangements, as plain hairpins are
made in every possible form-come the
popular chatelaines, which now depend
and jingle in the most maddening man.
ner from feminine waist-belts. OF the
quaint and curious articles that are at
tached to these chatelaines there is APP
parently no end, and at least they serve
one good purpose, which is to proved
the unfortunate hunter after something
new and pretty in the way of presents
with an easy selection certain to find
favor with fair recipients. Among the
newest things in jewelry are delicious
little peapods studded with diamonds,
n row of pearl peas peeping from the
half-opened pod. A quaint idea for
parasol handle is to have a baby's coral
and bells affixed to the stick, and ]
have also seen these nursery adiuncts
utilized with good effect as handles to
the palm-leaf shaped fan.
The nine. heads in the accompanying
drawing show as many different styles
Of fashionable hair dressing as seen in
one coterie of summer girls. These
coiffures are not difficult of achieve
ment, and almost any fair reader will
be able to reproduce them upon her
own head. The same wide range of va-
riety already mentioned as Characters
tic of costumes is seen in the arrange
ment of hair. Especially do the young
girls indulge their fancy as to what is be-
coming to themselves, and reasonable
proportion are successful in their at
tempts to beautify themselves thereby.
| wish could add that it is only in the