Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-06-18
THE SUMMER GIRL.
How She Dresscs-Erccn Grass Hats
and Big ParasOls-LaNvn Tennis.

From the New York Sun
1t is timely to consider the summer girl. She
knows pretty well now what she is going TO wear
June specimen can any moment be found on the
Broadway promenade. She is type OF current
elegance, quite devoid OF exaggeration and yet
exemplfying several new ideas In fashions Her
bonnet Is one OF the approved shapes, and her
manner OF tilling Its high. pointed front with q
nun OF her own hair Is an innovation. She al3o
expresses neatly new notion OF using a single
material for q whole dress This Is a small fact as
compared with the greater one, that OF employing
different and often incongruous colors and en-
bodying them In one toilet. She belongs TO the
few WHO dislike TO be In accord with the many
and who are therefore ahead OF the majority. The
fabric OF her gown is wool OF very light gray.
The black lace around her neck ana down her
front Is In accordance with the newest OF lace
as an embellishments. She Is type OF the neat and
quiet summer girl for 1883. II she were not pretty
she would easily pass unnoticed among many
more gaudy creatures In the throng. No
more than a rod behind her saunters q
young woman In SOmbrer0 hat made or very
ishly In 'front.' Her hair is cut on sQuarely at the
ends aud ieIt hanging Loose to point a tribe be-
low her neck. Thus her whole head lacks only a
m0ustache TO be an ideaiiZation OF Buffalo Bill
such hats are likely to be worn considerably dur.
ing the hot weather at the resorts, and they will
be serviceable as shades as well as admirable for
picturesQueness; but In the city they are entirely
too extravaganza and one Is apt to rate the wearer
as a social scout or TOO daring a character. The
uumueT anu variety vi Wlue-Uflmineu mats Is as
great as the many strange ways in which the
brims are bent. They are turned up In front, at
the back, or at the sides; some have wide wing
like SIDE Drims. Others have the front excessively
wide and straight, and many OF the Tuscan straw
capelines have The Orim held down by the str1ng s.
Masses OF trimming, generally ribbon and flowers,
are heaped ON these.
Green grass hats have had curious and humor.
GUS boom. The desire to wear something unique
and exclusive to herself strong In the circle OF
fashionable women, who are conspicuous and In
dependent enough to make their own styles in q
measure. There Is an attempt to Introduce the
outlandish ToSca, or Directoire, parasOl handles.
hese consist OF very long crooks and are in
tended TO be walked with, after the manner or
the ladies' OF Louis XVIS court with their Canes
They are necessarily awkward, and Will not stay
In even the amount OF favor which they have
achieved II woman be past yOuthfulness, and
OF stalwart physique, carrying such a heavy
handled parasol makes her look like an amazon
armed with war club. Ii shr be young ana dbl
cate, she LOOKS as though 0verburdened. Iu any
event she would have 10 costume herself as a shep-
herdesS, and take q sheep or two along, In order
TO make an agr eeable impression.
Lawn tennis Is a diversion In which the summer
girl usually allows herself wide latitude. This
season she viii pretty generally take ~ the blouse
not from Paris or Berlin, and our bellies have been
SLOW TO put them for ordinary occasions OF
dress, but a round or the more fashionable dress
making establishments convinceS one that they
Will be adopted generally for lawn tennis playing,
In place or the bygone jersey waists. They are
equally conducive TO an expression or pliabiliJy,
and their seeming loOseness conveys AN impression
or even greater suppleness than the jersey I'm
parted Sad to say, however, they are likely TO
induce tight laclng, instead or the ease OIL stays
which their appearance suggests The girl VINO
cannot comfortably wear an lS-inch belt or less
with blouse, manages 10 do so by means OF v1o-
lent compressor, and SO the lawn tennis player
may not be what She seems as to the untrammelled
condition OF her clothes.