Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-06-22
MIDSUMMER STYLES.
What the Women Will AdOrn Them.
selves With.

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| SANDAL SHOES are worn with empire anc
directory gowns on the other side.
ELABORATION AND SIMPLICITY are carried to
extremes in fashionable gowning this season
For DREssY AFTERNOON, ball and evening
toilets the stockings must match the gown in
color.
PIECE LACE in floral designs has gone out OF
fashions geometric patterns have taken theil
place.
NEARLY ALL THE BOUQUETS carried this
season are in loose clusters and sprays most
artistically arranged.
tulle are fringed all around with the petals of
roses, peoples, lilies or ferns.
CREPoN DE LAME is an excellent material fol
graduation dresses, and there are few more be-
coming styles for young girls fete dresses.
SMALL Low HATS, low coifures, undraped
skirts, no bustles, full sleeves and wide belts
| are the features in all fashionable toilets
In TAILOR FANCY CLOTHS for ladies every
thing must be rough and fecked to be in the
fashion. Smooth cloths are out of date, except
just the plain kinds.
PUFFED CASINOS, run with ribbons of various
widths, divide favor with gaugings, smockings
and bouillones for fashionable summer gowns
of null, batiste and mousseline de chiffon.
BROAD BANDS OF SoFT LEATHER, in colors to
match the material Of the gown, are worn as
hens, cuffs, collars, waistcoats and revers on
walking and driving suits intended for country
wear.
SEA-wAvE VELVET, exactly the tone you see
when you look down into the hollow Of the
| waves, is being made up into the simplest din
ner gowns, with just a sash OF cream crepe de
chine.
The REVIVED BEREaEs Of this summer come
with interviewer and printed borders on plain
colored grounds of delicate intermediate shades,
blue, rose, gray, beige, green, bronze, purple,
yellow and cream.
VERY LADYLIKE and dainty costumes for sum.
of Bengaline or surah, figured with small de-
vices over grounds of gray, amber, terra Gotta,
strawberry, reseda, pale olive and old rose.
WArrEAU DRAPERIEs, as well as the straight
styles, are employed for India and Burmese
silks, and they are trimmed, according to the
use for which they are indicated, with velvet
revers, de-. or with quantities, more or less, of
creamy lace.
THE REVOLUTION IN SLEEVES Ia being &C.
cepted, and some Of the newest IRE very wide
at the top, and either lace or button inside the
arm. French women allow them to droop
over the hand, carrying out the mediaval mode
IN lt1 6ntlety.
CORDUROY is to be the material Of the autumn
and winter, and it is now being made up into
evening cloaks which completely envelop the
figure, reach to the hem Of the dress, and at in
the back, the collars rounded and standing up
about the throat.
The New FANCY STRAW HEAp-CovERrNas
show all sorts Of fancy designs. In many of
the bonnets and round hats they are arranged
in what is known as ''row and row. braids,
these showing very chic and pretty effects in
color and device.
THERE rs certainly nothing in the Jewel OF
floral kingdom which can quite take the place
Of lace as personal adornment. All do not
look well in either jewelry or ribbons or how-
ers, but the softening and beautifying power
Of lace is almost magical.
PRrScEssE DRESSES Of "oyster-shelI" white
satin are favorite gowns with wealthy dowa-
gers. These are draped with crepe de chine.
also in oyster-shell white, which new shade has
whatever in its reflections.
A NOVEL TENNIS BLOUSE is made of q verv
peculiar shade Of terra Gotta, embroidered in
black silk, with black velvet collar and Rirdle
Another model Is Of ripe-cherry wool crepe.
with cuffs and collar Of biscuit-colored silk
brier-stitched with red There Is a sailor tie of
the silk to match, and cap Of red silk banded
with pale-gold galloon.
EMPIRE Fashions DOMINATE, but the term
embraces great variety. Simple little skirts,
scanty and clinging, are bordered with inch
wide velvet-three to Eve rows. Cream nun,s
yelling Is thus treated with beige-colored vel
vet; it had full-bodiced polonaise draped
over; the fullness at the waist kept in place BY
guipure vandykes Of the same tones.
TIE DEcADEscx Of the hustle does not neces-
sarily imply its entire abandonment, and IL IL
the exception rather than the rule for 8 lady 70
reject all appearance Of . tonrnure, excepting
with the distinctive empire dresses; and even
at the back furnishes . substitute, and whom
the sash 10 worn tied ct the side IL ID not un-
usual to have gored foundation skirt with
short steels at the back under the full outer
skirt