Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-07-12
SUMNER MATERIALS.
THE LIGHT, AIRY, AND oELlcATELY-
TINTED SEASON FABRICS.
Cashmeres, and Popular Bsreges-
The Variations in Gowns.

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NEW YoRK, July altogether with the
many pretty piquant, appropriate styles
modes gathered from every period by de-
signers who are growing with every season
more eclectic. more observation-disclosures
have given TO us such wealth OF light and
airy. yet beautifully -woven, delicately-
tinted. artistically- designed fabrics that
the summer girl of 1891 is charming without
her own volition. Not that the latter is
ever lacking. for il il is the duty of every
woman to look as attractive rs she can,
there is, then, one feminine duty never
neglected since the sex originated with
lady Eve.
To repeat the names of summer materials
Is perhaps not too instructive. They must
be seen. for il ia impossible to imagine
them. Still il will serve some useful pur-
pose to direct attention to the most de-
serving ones of the many.
oRoASDIEs FAyoRITKs.
The old-fashioned organizes are among
the prime favorites this season. They make
O delightfully."- -cool dress. With a g,ampe
waist-the suimpe including full bishop
sleeves-they make up dellciously. Two
varieties are combined-as. for instance. q
pale ecru. pale blue. or mauye. tor the
dies also appear sometimes with figures.
FRENCH BATIsTEs.
The fine French batistes. which are more
sheer more diaphanous. more delicately
beautiful form the waists of some of the
summer gowns. Sometimes thew are made
as irt-waists, TO DO worn beneath jackets
of serge or ladies' cloth, the shirt being of
the latter.
LOVELY LAWNS.
The lawns seem finer than ever before
and the colorings moro dainty. They are
made up in similar styles. occasionally in
combination with light-striped silks.
One sees many of the cashmere robe
dresses made for street wear IN town or for
semi-formal wear at the resorts. They look
CHIC and stylish with their crepe de chine en-
broidered borders. These dresses are only
in the paleSt tans and grays.
SEASIDE WEAR.
Bareges. being woollen and yet of very
light weight. have become popular for sea-
side wear. They have warmth in them
something which cannot be said for most
Of the filmy summer cobweb fabrics) and
at the same time make up with the dainti-
est possible effects.
CHAEGEs IN GOWNS.
TO leave fabrics and to speak of gowns
what are the changest The variations of
y
be overturned until the incoming of fall
styles, and from certain forecasts, 1t does
not appear that they will then be deserted.
The skirts are continually, if very gradu-
ally, lengthening. This is lunacy with
out any lucid intervals while it lasts but
which will nevertheless not be chronic and
may be left to work its own cure. To inn
agine that women will long continue to
suffer under the necessity Of sweeping
dirty pavements and fraying the edges of
their dresses, or else of perpetually i'm
posing on one arm the task of upraisng
their draperies, is to accuse them of a
weakness OF intellect deeper even than
fashion has usually fathomed.
EFFECTIVE AND PIoUANT.
The mountain dress. as the fashion rem
resents IT, is so piquant. so coquettishy
effective. that in itself it is sufficient to
tempt one to climb. A blue-and- white
silken shirt-waist. blue serge REFER. A
short plain serge skirt. Genuine deer-skin
leggins which make one think of Fenimore
Cooper's books. Underneath trousers OF
the same blue serge OF Of flannel. The
girl who wants TO look ornamental adds an
alpenstock. The girl who has been there
and intends to climb leaves her hands free
and remembers that she is not in Switzer-
land and that there are no glaciers TO be
encountered in the White Mountains, or
the Catskils. or the Berkshires, or any
other of our American mountains OF fash
ion.
RECEPTION COSTUMES.
One of the handsomest and yet simplest
of recent reception costumes was "a hello
trope Jed,i dc sole. Ii was trimmed with
creamy crfDe de chine. embroidered oil over
with large heliotrope polka-dots. The
waist showed the usual side-skrts some
what in the manner Of paniers. IL was
4. a. hn
and colarless, which is the method at
present, the Medici vogue having translated
itself into carriage and other out-of-door
STYLES. The sleeves, made to the wrists,
were caught at appropriate intervals with
cream ribbons. On the deml-traned skirt
was IA festooned founce Of crfDe de chine.
OTHER FASHION NOTES.
Lace bodices are possible with every
variety OF skirt, which is salient advan-
tage.
liz you are going away take your spring
cape or mantle, or even your fur shoulder
wrap for in the mountains or at the sea-
shore cold waves are frequent and some
times rigorous.
The jet cabochon is the most popular
Of earnitures.
The side-saddle, despite the sincere eff |
forts of Miss Jenness. continues to be |
woman's throne on horseback. and she sits |
il now with O colored habit and striped |
wastcoat.
After copying everything else in the
range Of masculine attire, the providers Of |
women's fashions have introduceda wrapin |
stimulation of the gentleman's frock-cost. |
The pettlcoat-that one which Is sup |
posed TO be revealed only when chance I'M |
covers lt-revels this season in either pink
ed fittings of silk or festooned flounces OF
lace, and is more coquettishly pretty than
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woman.
If one be really in tho swim, ono wears
orchid blossoms on the corsage.