Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-20

mixed color, and are worn about ones room
with white jacket for neglige. The sleeping
| gowns of printed linen lawn, made no fuller
| than nightgown-, are thrown on for after
| noon maps or to lounge on hot days when
| people sit about as they do in Chicago, with
| doors locked, no callers allowed and the fig
leaves spun and woven into something thin
| ner than foliage, only opaque.
Devotees OF dress reform may recur to
Mrs. Jenness- -Miller's description of her own
| costume at Lake Mahonk, "Grass linen
combinations trimmed with lace and an
India muslin gown-not a thing else, ladies,
I assure you" Tor hotel piazza But few
will attempt to rival the costume, which
] would seem to suit the days of Mme. Tallen
and the Directory rather than our own. 1t
| makes the greatest possible difference in the
ease of enduring heat whether the clothes
worn are thin enough, from the linen lawn
of intimate garments to the almost boneless
lace corset and the lawn or gauze waist
| above it.
HINTS FOR BATHERs.
The best imported bathing suits for good
| taste and service are the dark blue JERSEYS
woven In one piece from neck to ankle, in
wiry stockinet, with skirt to button on the
I waist and falling to the knees. Bathing
shoes have cork sole covered with canvas,
and long stocking or gaiter top of stock
met laced at the ankle only, the tops in
color to match the suit
Short-sleeved suits are often very COM
Portable when bathing in privacy or on
cloudy days, but to prevent sunburn a pair
OF old stocking legs are drawn over the arms
and held to the short sleeve by safety pin.
Safety pins or spring hooks are the only
astenings to be depended on to hold bath
ing suits or riding habits together. Bathing
corsets tor bulky people are made roomy, of
porous material and with tbusks which do
not rust in salt water. The best brocade
and satin corsets have large hook set on
the front and back of the waist to catch in
an eve or loop on the corsage to prevent its
riding up' in an awkward fashion. 1t is
10 such little details that the good style and
adjustment of dress depend.
From new dresses abroad the following
notes are taken: Black crepe de Chine cos
tune, figured with bouquets in dull Eifel
red and gobelin blue, upper sleeves, chemi-
settle and side panel OF gobelin crepe; din
ner dress OF floral crepe, as it is called, with
spray OF pink hawthorn on black ground,
made with yoke oil drawn black lace over
old rose. White dotted muslins, muslins
embroidered in sprigs and white net dotted
with silver are much worn at English coun-
try houses, made with plain skirts, bands of
valenciennes insertion let in above the hem
and simple drawn French waists or the Re-
canlier bodices. Cream canton crepes made
over pink have the lovely shading OF tea
roses and are made with the valenciennes in
sertion let in slightly full with veilings of
embroidery on the edges, an old and deli
cate style of trimming. Cream color, with
apple or lichen green, or Greek embroider-
les In gold, is the Iavorite with elegantes.
AS TO SILKS.
Shot silks, or, as we call them, change
able silks, will be worn a good deal Tor
secondary dresses. Simple, artistic gowns
are made in out-oi-the-way fabrics, like
japanese cotton crepe or the soft, firm
chintz which does credit to its ancient
repute. A model from Liberty's, the
English art firm, is cotton crepe, with cream
ground, and old tinge as ifg gained bv lying,
with briar rose pattern, surplice waist in
softly gathered iolds, rather high in the
neck, full sleeves gathered in a ruff1e to
hang over the hand and sash of green
China silk. The bonnet to suit is q cottage
shape of drawn green silk, with ostrich
plumes standing on the crown in a graceful
cluster.
French dresses are not remarkable for the
fiat, scantY skirty shirts worn in England,
and the sleeves are full without standing
high on the shoulder and narrow at the
wrist. In place of the stiff, HoIbein waists,
apparently made over stays, the elegance OF
the simple princess dress is preferred, with
skirt in long, fat pleats and no other trim
ming, unless it is the insertion of lace or
embroidery let in five inches above the
edge.
White gloves, whether Suede. or kid, are
worn with evening dress, and are also
coming into use Tor the day time with dressY
costumes and light colored SUITS White
Tyrol gloves of undressed white chamois
come in mousquetaire shape Tor driving, and
are acceptable, as they will wash and clean
easily. Long gloves in silver and steel gray
are preferred to tan, and should be chosen
with the invisible seams, or at least with the
finest stitching on the backs, although this
may be black for visiting costumes.
THE CARE OF GLOVES.
All gloves last better and are nicer to
wear for being turned inside. out each time
they are taken off and hung in draught
until the warmth of the hand passes from
them. They keep fresh longer for being
rubbed at the tips and in soiled places with