Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18
LADIES' SHADES.
CONCEPTS IN PARAS0LS AND IN
THEIR DECORATION.
Varieties Which are Affected by
Different Styles of Women
How Girls Use Them.
New York World and Express.

New York World and Express.l
The summer of 1888 will go down in his
tory as the season of the sash and the par
asol. The sash, the innocent, unlearned, |
babyish sash is crumpled about the waist
of the summer girl. The parasol, the
saucy, knowing parasol, spreads its wings
above her head. The ffuttering sash says
81 know SO little of the worlds WAYS. take
care of me-" The wicked parasol says
My eyes are on you, beware of me-"
The sash appeals to your chivalry, it is
whole defensive panoply. The parasol is
an arsenal of offense. BY the sash and
the parasol is the summer girl made
queen.
The parasol of the two, is the more in
teresting study. 1t is a bloom of color
above the summer girls head, the crown
of he- attire. 1t is sensitive plant that
reflects every change of her moods. When
she walks on the beach of morning in
maiden meditation fancy free, the parasol
is rose-tinted halo behind her face that
/ says, uO uOb lnbSIi6Ic Will my dreams.
| When she lies curled up in the sand.
watching the breakers in more social mood,
the parasol is bower of dancing ribbons,
a pavilion of bows and ends just big enough
for two. When she is gotten up gorgeously
for the promenade, the p1rasol is a canopy
of rich laces dropping to mingle with the
other glories of her attire. When the
green leaves are merry and the summer
erirl lo,tobc ha L.,
OF roses fastened atop, as deeply red, as
glowingly yellow, as luxurious as the spirit
of midsummer. When the summer girl is
coy she traces lines demurely with the
long silver stick of her parasol on the
ground. When she is bent on conquest
she lifts both hands and holds her parasol
against the back of her head as a japanese
girl lifts her fan. The parasol was picked
to suit her skin-it makes her irresistible
She has parasol for every gown and for
truly dressed until she has put on her
parasol.
THE GIRL AND THE PARAsoL
There is one thing to be said for the girl
and the parasol. In parasols we are truly
American. The summer girl NAV take her
morning gown from Engla d, her evening
gown from France, but she takes her para
sol from New York. 1t is a curious fact
that we do not like French parasols. The
parasol from Paris we know on sight. It
is tub-shaped thing that does not suit
the summer girl. Its ribs are drawn down
too closely. 1t is a roundish, compact
thing, while it is the summer girls nature
to prefer flare. Practically all the para
soils sold in the East are made in New
York or Philadelphia There are only
two or three dry goods houses in New York
and Brooklyn together which have any
appreciable sale for imported parasols.
: Society leaders who live much abroad
fancy them, but less, perhaps, than form
erly, because they have been taken I'D by
the demi-monde.
To say American parasols means that
; they are put together in this country. The
material of the cover may be imported or
made here. The French parasol is sui
generis. 1t is species by itself The
American parasol is a refinement of the
sun umbrella, copy made dainty or made
sumptuous of the same shape. 1t NAV
have one number Of ribs or another. or it
may be scalloped deeply from rib to rib, or
left plain; it may flare a little more this
year and little less next, but it is. in
essentials, to the sun umbrella what the
sweet pea is to the coarser sort that finds
its way to the dinner pot. Its shape be
that what it may, is determined here, its
frame is made here, and then the prettiest
silk or ribbon or lace that America or
France or Germany can provide is per-
mitted to clothe its nakedness in much the
fashions and patterns in vogue with for
eign bellies.
THE COACHING sUNsHADE
The summer girls steady company is the
coaching parasol. She rises up with it in
the morning and she does not lay it down
until the setting of the sun. She walks
with it, she rides with it, she boats with it.
she tricycles with it; she has it ever in her
hand. When she goes out she asks her
self: " Which is my most becoming para
?" That done, she lays out nat, gown,
gloves and shoes to correspond. 1t is the
parasol which strikes the keynote to her
attire. When the sun shines the coaching
parasol is a tropical bird opening its great
colored wings above her head When the
clouds are thick the parasol lies gracefully
across her arm, displaying the gold and
silver mountings of It's stick, touch of
color and bit of jewelry in one. though
she keep it closed all day The coaching
parasol is twenty-four inches in radius this
summer, and it displays almost every hue
and every material under heaven. In its
newest form it is the yachting parasol, for
use where the breezes blow and the waves
dash high" and is a marvel of lightness
and strength. Its handle is a slender stick
of Lakewood, which looks fragile but has
a core of steel Its ribs, too, are steel. and
the frame is covered with Spitalfeld silk.
woven in blues and reds to match the
yachting gown, looking like cobweb for
delicacy but tough enough to stand any
summer gale that ever threatened to whip
a pretty girls ribbons into shoe-strings. 1t
is of the close-rolled variety, and makes
walking-stick, very English when closed.
The coaching parasol is not supposed to in
dulge in lace, but to compensate for this
prlvatlon 1t is the most apt of all parasols
to lavish fortune on its handle.
THE STICK.
The parasol stick has become work of
art. The day of the plain wood handle is
done. The new parasol stick is a tapering
piece of palm, Madagascar lancewood,
! olive, German weitzel, or lemon wood. 1t
| Is longer even than last year, positively
dangerous In careless hands, but its length
is mostly in the lower handle. The top
protrudes less than it has done. Some of
the daintiest carving done by modern
wood-workers goes into these natural wood
sticks, carrying their prices UP to fabulous
sums, but gold and silver mountings are
the better liked ornamentations. These
range all the way from slight gliding or
silvering, that serves to bring out the grain
of the wood on the knots, protubcrances
and twisted hand pieces, to sticks of ster-
| ling gold or silver over slight core of
lancewood There is tall, black haired
maiden at Long Branch who has not been
seen out of doors this summer without her
parasol. Wherever she goes she attracts
attention, and it is all because of the para
sol. Its scarlet silk sets off her olive skin.
making BRILLIANT picture, but the parasoi
is truly interesting when you approach
near enough to examine it in detail. Its
stick is of brownish yellow japanese ivory
with sea shells, miniature sea monsters
and trails of Saa woods opd ,,,oee1e ,,,.sI:o1