The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-06-15
FOR FAIR JUNE WEATHER
The Tailor Made Girl Waning and
No Longer What
She Was.
The Picturesque Continental Girl
Has Come UP in the Place
Once Hers.
Some Tea Gowns Discussed and Also Some
Trousseau Toilets-Sotes of Sum-
mer Fashions.

Especial Correspondence of The INDEPENDENT. ]
New YORK. June 10.-The tailor-made
Rirl is no longer what she was. Like brio
a-bric her popularity is on the ane. 1t is
the continental girl who is succeeding her
as an outdoor figure. The continental
girl yves her success to the fact that she
is picturesque, an adjective nobody ever
dreamed of applying to the tailor made
girl. The continental wears a cooked hat
and a long-tailed coat. and she winds
about her throat a big muslin fichu. She
has enormous lace cuffs at her wrists, and
her waistcoat is gorQeously embroidered.
Shit carries in her hand a dogwhip, and she
looks like a dashing marquise of the conrt
of now one and now another of the highly
esteemed Louises.
As here presented her dress is of black
corded silk, with vest. revers and cuffs of
white satin worked with gold. There is
lace at her neck and lace at her wrists, but
the b~uttonholes in her coat are its most
striking and essential feature. They arc
requisite to give character to the continent
tai idea.
On the street beside or behind the con-
t~inental girl walks the lad who looks rs if
he were homo on a vacation from Elton. He
doesn't always enjoy the Etonian effect of
himself, for the bona fide American boys
are apt to look and to jeer. Still, the Elton
lad knows he is in the height of fashion and
he has more and moro comrades to keep
him company every day. He is u natty,
and a smart and n oomical figure with his
stovepipe hat and his Byron collar and his
short jacket and his long trousers. He
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somehow that of itself is almost enough to
ditferentiate him from a normal, human sort
of boy.
The Grecian tea gown is the costume in
which you arc apt to find a woman, if you
find her when she has planned to be ~particu-
larly charming. There is nothing especially
classic about the robe, in spite of it's name,
but it is undoubtedly an Improvement as to
grace and general becomingness over most
of it's predecessors of the wide family con-
nection of negligees. The woman who
wears it rs she let's II tea ball meditHtively
dangle from her f%orefinger, while she gives
You an interesting account of the past,
present and future of her summer plans,
prefers 1t IN cashmere, i'll biscuit and pale
blue. 1t has n shirred yoke at the throat,
ana from under the arm on either side
comes Il broad soft piece of silk, tho two
sash pieces meeting ut the waist in front,
tying ana hanging nearly to the ground.
Tho sleeves are full and shirred at the
" list with narrow ribbons. About the
neck stands up full ruche of silk, ending
III front III a Rchu of narrow ribbons. 1t 10
not n tea gown about which there is any,
thing Sensational, but. IA shown in tho
picture, 1t 10 very simple and becoming.
June weddings follow ono another in rapid
pnco. ssion aud some OF them Gull out very
pretty ideas. There has not been II June in
many summers without it's daisy weddings,