Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-31
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What the Bellies Who Play Lawn Ten
mis- Array Themselves In.
BED, NAVY BLUE AND STRIPES 60.
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Skirt Off the Ground.
COSTUMES FOR THE BICYCLE GIRL
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NEW YORK, July so.-The girl who does
not play tennis may as we'll die, or, worse
still, make up her mind to being an old
maid. She is more of wall flower than
the girl who does not dance the german.
From the famous arena of the Fewport ten
mis- courts, where every summer exciting
struggles for the championship are fought
and won in the pressure of patrician
crowd, to the ivy-clad slopes of the Hud-
son and velvety Lenox lawns, tennis is the
sport of the season.
And not day goes BY that the game IL
not mixed up with the game of love. Cupid
just revels in the opportunities afforded by
secluded groups Of palms, orchid filled
greenhouses, graperies galore and vine
sheltered arborA Why always is every
rustic seat and bench filled with interested
spectators, if it is not to catch glimpse of
the comedy and tragedy of fashionable life,
sure to be carried on within the limits of
an aristocratic tennis court?
Tennis and Tea Go Together.
This season tennis and tea have Joined
hands. The tea table stands close by the
court and when the afternoon shadows be-
gin to deepen, or the players pause from
sheer fatigue after q most exciting game,
then what more tempting than the cup of
tea poured by fair hands or the shreds of
bread and butter served on the rackets as
walters? 1t is gay scene, all light, color
and sparkle.
Quite the belle of q tennis club at Tarry-
town-on-the- b udson, is a Miss Lee, an
ideal blonde, with an abundance of ripping,
sunny hair Her suit this year is very
dainty. 1t is a dark blue diagonal serge
bell skirt, with striped shirt waist in
II ,ht blue and white. Her jacket, or rather
her coat, is an Eton in soft crinkley white
crepon, with its wide revers faced with
white surah. A new and exceedingly
pretty feature are her cuffs of silk to match
the shirt waist, which are quite deep,
finished with q frill and worn outside OF
white tennis cap. She wears white shoes
tied with blue ribbons
A Vision in Bright Red
By all odds the dashing tennis suit of the
season is the bright red serge, which has its
long jacket and skirt of plain rich red, un-
relieved by any other color, except the
creamy tint of the silken shirt waist. If
added to such suit, the wearer chooses
red straw sailor trimmed with red quill
pompon on one side of crown, out of which
darts r ID aigrette, then this daring maid
looks as much like an imp of Satan as any
one could. 1t is effective in the lawn and is
generally worn by the girl, who would not
hesitate to bet on her favorite horse at the
race, or f1irt with her dearest friends sweet
heart More often this glaring red is broken
by a cream stripe, with a white belt, plain
white cap and white shoes, tied with red
ribbons
Girls with plenty of money go for Red
ferns novelties, which are made of serge,
homespun, sacking or tweed, and which are
lined as a rule with shot tatferas in gay
colors, as for example suit of navy blue
serge is lined throughout with blue and
pink shot silk. The sacking spoken of is a
woven wool fabric of lighter weight than
serge. Running in the other day for
pointers, I noticed a white serge with yel-
low silk blouse, trimmed with yellow and
white cable cord, also all sorts of odd fan
cies, such as plastrons crossed with red,
white and blue braid, or silk scarfs knotted
below the waist revers
What an Apt Girl Can Do.
But the girl who loves to play tennis can
generally plan a pretty suit, without paying
any unheard-of sum for the sake of cele-
brated artists tag on the inside of her