Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-31

which japanese artists render so perfectly;
or suppose again it is one of the new wash
silks, with a commercial design. Buy
porcelain buttons and tint the ground of
them to correspond with the stuff they are
going on. Then copy a spray of the
flower or a whorl of the scroll for the pat
tern, and you match as smartly as
if silk and buttons had been made
to order at great cost from
your own drawings, Or if you
are quite advanced" you may take
silk or thin wool fabric of subdued rather
than a pronounced pattern and give it
character by painting porcelain buttons
for it-you can buy them at any shop
which sells artists materials-in different
but harmonizing patterns On one sEoul-
der a gallant in knee breeches and ruffles
may bend before a fair lady, while on the
other a ripple of water slips past an old
ruin. The pictured face of Josephine or
Marie Antoinette may look out from the
pocket, while your monogram holds the
post of honor on the other side. Odd but
tons, bizarre, mismated, are quite the
fashion, the more motley the merrier, pro-
vlded they are the same size and shape and
do not wrangle in colors
Large pearl buttons meet some favor
and those Of flashing jet also Some of
the finest sets seen in the stores are in imi-
tation of pastel or miniature painting, the
large oval buttons set in gold or silver rims
showing the sweet, shadowy faces, with
pink cheeks and smiling eyes, of the dead
beauties of the court of Napoleon rising
out of gray mists. For the green silks
and brocades which everybody wears come
lacquered buttons, showing wildly emer-
aid landscapes, red castles, and blue skies,
such as never bent above the earth out of
Already.
The yachting buttons are the biggest of
all. Red and blue veined onyx set in sill
yer make saucers from two to three and
one half inches IN diameter for the water
gown. 1t looks as If the button manufac-
turers would make their fortunes, but
with all their ingenuity nothing will be
devised prettier and new things more ex-
pensive than the diamonds set in silver
with which handsome black satin which
walked up Fifth avenue was buttoned yes
terday afternoon.
In an article on outdoor costumes for
summer, Oscar Wilde's Woman's World
Uondon) contains the following:
In the outdoor dress in illustration the style
Of the gown is well adapted for copying in any
cotton or light material the model from which
it was sketched had plain pink zephyr skirt,
and a polonaise having a ground of the same
tone, with white sprigs There is a band about
the waist, and the polonaise is cleverly caught
up at the side. The hat is white, with a soft
pongee silk crown, encircled by spray of wild
white roses. 1t is becoming aud at the same
time picturesque bent as it is into three van
dykes above the face.
Tennis plays an al1-important part in English
summer life, and it is essential that young
women should be provided with dresses appro-
pirate to the exigencies of the game. think
the one in our illustration is exactly suited for
such purpose. The material is striped fan
mel and there are a number of new and charm
ing colorings in the one selected. The half-inch
width Of stripes is the newest The skirt is full
with slight drapery on one side, sufficiently
short not to break the lines which are so be-
coming to a GRACEFUL figure. The bodice is full
blouse with a belt about the waist the collar
made very high, and it is supplemented by a
jacket with open front to be when it is need
ed. 1t can be arranged in the same striped