Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-05
OUTING GARB FOR THE SEASON.
New Fashions for This Summer In
Bathing and Tennis Costumes

new fashions Tor This Summer In
Bathing and Tennis Costumes
n H o N s in bathing suits" said
ia dealer in outing goods to a srAn re-
porter yesterday, represent an advance
this season over anything in that line
hitherto known. Little more than ten
years ago no such thing was thought of as
beauty in . bathing suit People were content
to go into the water IN garments resembling
meal sacks the understanding being that
women we're not to be regarded under such
circumstances with the eye of aesthetic criti-
cism. As for the men, il did not
matter at all how they looked It has only
been within a comparatively short time that
the idea of costuming for the bath as a matter
OF actual dress and not of mere covering has
been considered. Not SO long ago l myself
saw woman start for dip in the ocean at a
Watering place with nothing on but mother
hubbard. What she would have looked like
upon taking her first dip in the briny can't
imagine, because her gown blew over her head
on her way from the bathing house. occasioning
her some embarrassment and obliging her to
retrect precipitately from view. 1t used to be
| mystery to me in those days how women
careful of their prettiness on land should be
willing to make such guys Of themselves in the
water.
EVOLUTION OF TIE BATHING SUIT.
"But year by year since then the bathing
costume has been achieving its evolution, until
now woman can look at least as attractive
among the pillows as in the drawing room. In
fact, there are plenty OF fair ones who have no
other object in going into the than that OF
exhibiting their physical projections in garb
calculated to show them of to their best adj
vantage. knew q very charming girl once
who was accustomed to say that she would GER
tainiy be belle if it were the fashion to walk
on ones head. OF course she only made this
remark jocularly to friends of her own sex, be-
cause what she meant by is was that her lack
OF beauty in feature was compensated for
ny an attractive grace OF limb. She was
much given to ocean bathing in the daintest of
not too yoluminous toilets. Plenty of young
women never think OF letting the water touch
them when they go ia bathing, at all events
they dom more than permit the waves to rip
pie over their toes lest the brine spoiIt the
pretty fabrics of their costumes. 1t is quite
the thing for a belle at the seaside to trig
herfelf out IN distinctly ideal bathing suit,
not meant at all for use, and sit down on the
sand for an bour or SO every day at bathing
time, with a little crowd Of men around her,
each one eager for the privilege Of holding her
parssol Even the ordinary bathing suit
that she can buy at the dry
goods shop this season is q thing of beauty
1t is made in two parasitic waist and skirt in
one piece. belted and the trousers reaching to
just below the knees where they tighten jer-
sey fashion. The trousers are slightly baggy,
while the other garment is made to fit SYM
metrically at the waist. At the neck it may be
had low or Vshaped Necessarily corsets
form an important part of woman's costume
nowadays. Without them bagginess is I'M
avoidable, because the clothing will not stay
In place IN the water, and the female figure is
rare one that can do without corsets at any
time. Not few women lace considerably for
q sea bath, and the padding, frequently so
sentlal, can only be done when stays are worn.
SUITS FOR MEN.
Bathing suits for men are likewise better
this season than ever before, more particu-
larly in point of material. Also, they are much
cheaper. You can buy jersey shirt now OF
handsome dark blue cotton goods that looks like
wool, and is really very pretty garment,
for sixty cents; knee pantaloons to match cost
sixty cents more. Nothing like them has been
sold hitherto for any such price. Ofcourse, men
Will always prefer the severe simplicity of
Adams costume for bathing purposes; but they
are obliged to yield somewhat to fashion in this
matter, more particularly at the New jersey
sorts, such as Asbury Park, where some young
gentlemen were actually arrested a while ago
Tor bathing in an out-of-the way place without
proper apparel They protested that they
were out OF eye-shot from the hotels.
Loud stripes for mems bathing suits have
gone out Of style in favor Of plain colors.
usually blue and the hideous garments for the
ocean made in one piece are no longer the
thing to wear. The latter, with the bars of
glaring tints which usually decorated them,
used to make the wearers look more like clowns
than anything else. 1 expect that bathing
clothes will 60 on getting prettier and prettier
from season to season. The tailor-made beach
girl is already numerous, and emulation in that
branch OF costuming more particularly on the
jersey coast, where a fringe of the population
OF the United States may be said to hang over
the edge of the country into the Atlantic ocean,
as it were, is sure to keep up the interest in
the development Of salt water aesthetics"
NEW TENNIS COSTUMES.
care there any hew styles in tennis cos
tumes?''
Decidedly, yea This seasons fashions for
tennis rig take q new departure in the matter
OF colors. The loud tints which have hitherto
been In favor do not appear at all in the ma
terials offered by the manufacturers for the
summer OF 1890. On the contrary, you can see
for yourself from these samples that fabrics
are all in very quiet checks and such things
This change has taken place because Of a SINH
lar alteration in the fashions abroad, in Eng
land and France both. Silk. cheviot, flannel
and serge are tho four correct materials
A new thing in this line is
called flannel serge. and is very
some silk woven in to give a sheen Instead of
the simply knotted sash a sash and belt com
bined is the fad. 1t holds up the trousers and
is decorative, too. As for base ball costumes
there is no alterations in them-interest in that
branch OF outing sport has diminished wonder
fully. don't sell one-half the accoutrements
for base ball this season that did last Even
the boys don't care as much as they did for the
game"