The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-26

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To make the tennis suit becoming mas
been more of a question with the dressmaK-
ers than any that has agitated them this
season. Walking dresses, boating dresses
and yachting rigs have a way of looking
pretty aud of being useful at the same time
They could adapt themselves to the fash
ions, because nothing specially trying was
required of the girl who was to wear them.
If she had free use of her arms that was
about all that was necessary.
But the tennis suit requires so much. 1t
must be perfectly free in the arms. shout
ders and waist. It must be broad across
the back and loose across the front, easy
around the neck, and so short sIeeved
that the cuffs could in no way interfere
with the action of the hands.
Then the skirt must be large around, so
that the girl could take a sudden run after
flying ball, jump high in the air to hit it,
land upon her feet and start off again to
meet the returning ball without running
the risk of tripping. This calls for short
skirt as well as a loose one.
And how to meet all these requirements
and make the tennis dress pretty has kept
many a dressmaker awake at night.
The mystery was solved, 10 some extent,
by using for the skirt material that re-
CURED DO trimming, being brocaded, striped
or in some way self adorned, SO that its
plainness would not be specially noticeable.
With this sort of goods, dress can, even
IN this season of long skirts, be somewhat
short and yet not attract attention.
One particularly
PRETTY TENNIS SUIT Is EMBROIDERED
almost from skirt to the hem with an ap-
plique design on white cloth, decorated
with silk and fine gold cord.
The material of the dress itself is white
cloth, the silk extends from the hem up
ward in points of which twelve are required
10 go entirely around the skirt. The points
come to an end almost 81 the waist line.
The cord prettily outlines them, and also
fancifully decorates the lower edge of tn Q
skirt.
The bodice is easy fitting and has long
side forms of silk, which extend up into
points upon the front of the bodice. The
sleeves are treated in the same way, and a
rather low standing collar is decorated with
gold cord.
Another tennis dress is of dark blue
serge, and is, if not less becoming, certain
~ of more service during the season. The
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plain skirt are ''battlemented" and edged
with the narrowest OF gold braid. The
waistcoat is quite snug fitting and is of blue
and white cloth. Over this the coat falls,
hangs loosely, giving full freedom to the
wearer's arms shoulders and wrists.
There is secret to the tight-htting
waistcoat, which may be told just here, be-
cause it is not too late in the season for some
fair tennis player to decide that her cos
tune is soiled or Is worn out and that she
needs a new one.
And then, perhaps, she may wish to fol-
low the example OF the fair Newport girl
who appears each day in what seems to be
a marvel of tight fitting vest. And who
runs and romps and walks in a way that is
the wonder and the envy of all the other
girls of her set.
THE SECRET OF THE TIGHT VEST Is THIS:
1t is a sham. The front is complete. It
buttons all the way down ending in point
below the waist, and is fitted out at the
neck with a pretty white shirt, standing
collar and gay tie.