The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-28
The WOMAN OF FASHION.
Summer Material More Numerous
Than Ever Before.
What the Daintier FabricslWill Cost
You-Linens Are Most Serviceable
and Satisfactory - How to Make
Them Up-Some Garden Party Cos

Copyright, 1881

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Copyright, 1887
New York, May 27.-The warm waves
the country has been swelteung under
have suddenly awakened US to the fact
| that summer is upon US. We have been
| quietly waiting for genuine spring to ar
rive, before doing anything definite in the
| way Of summer wardrobe. And To- here
is the summer before the spring. There
! fore put on your thinking-cap, summer
maiden, and make up your mind what
! yOuwill wear out of all the bewildering
fabrics for sunshiny days.
! There are more materials to choose
! from, this summer, it seems to me, than
| ever there were before. First, let us take
| the sheer and delicate ones. Fine organ
die, printed in pale, soft shades and flow
! cry punches, head the list. 1t is just the
thing for the fashionable SKIRT, for you
may make a skirt of it as full as you
! please, add all the rufIles and hip trim
mings you desire, and still preserve the
| light and airy effect. Lawns are almost
equal to Organdie in this respect The
/ dotted lawns and muslins will be very
/ popular; the newest are made in blocks
or fine stripes of white and one other
| shade-lavender, blue, pink or pale green
the shade being so very faint that you
/ have to examine the fabric closely to dis
! cover it. It's sufficient, however, to cast
/ a sheen of color over the material, rcliev-
! ing the pure white. These stripes are
| bOrdered after the same manner, except
| that the stripes are little broader, and
! the color is a trife more inteese The
| tiny white dots cover the whole. of
| course
| saw pretty pink lawn, that was scat
| tered with sprays of lilies-of-the-valley.
| in their natural shades. The lawn was
also covered with a silken thread that
was wrought in square Roman pattern.
A fine, pale gray was covered with Il
| criSS-croSs of black and white threads,
twisted in cord. Many others were both
dotted and besprinkled with colors.,
The batistes, the beautiful, fresh-look-
ing dimities, the French lawns, the dotted
muslins, and the organizes NAV be had at
prices ranging from 25 to IS cents yard
You may pay more for Organdie if you
will, but a good quality may be had inside
of the prices quoted.
But TO come to the more sensible mate
rails, we find Scotch bingham foremost,
as ever. The Bingham of this season,
however, is so transformed by the beau
tiful silken stripes and threads running
ONCI anu II, bIldJ IL Is scarcely
recognizable. Bingham is, after all, most
satisfying, for it will laundry perfectly,
| looking just as pretty after the wash as
ii did in its first freshness. The French
| zephyrs are simply refined editions of the
Scotch ginghams; and you NAV procure
the incest of either for 30 or 35 cents per
yard; and most desirable quality, aften,
for as low as 20 or 25 cents.
When it comes to the ombre ginghams,
cyn irrh ~.
yard; but these are very beautiful with
their shaded stripes. Pretty, also, are
the pllsSe ginghams, with their woven
tucks of white.
Then, as usual, we pattern some of the
! thin materials after last winters stuffs.
| There is the cotton cheviot, which you
may buy for 25 cents a yard; you may get
| such materials in both checks and plain
| colors, and many of them closely resemble
| the favorite hop-sacking of the winter
| that stands rough treatment so well.
What promiseto be particularly popular
are the linen fabrics-the glazed linen,
very heavy, to be had in gray, ecru and
navy blue; the lighter French linen, COM
| ing in almost all colors, even pretty, pale
| ones; and, above all, the linen duck, com
| ing in white, pale yellow or ecru.
The linen is so delightfully."- cool that it
! Will be used largely for outing purposes.
| OF course all the gowns are made to
wash easily since the light suits must be
kept spotless. The most popular way
to make them up is the full gored
! skirt, trimmed with rows of braid of a
contrasting shade, such as dark blue on
! ecru; or else narrow folds of darker
shade of the linen. Guipures are also
popular for skirt trimming The small
jacket effects are almost invariably en-
! plOyed for the waist with sleeveless silk
bOdiccs beneath, making the costume
! bright and attractive. Rows of braid
should also be added to the jacket, and a
most jaunty effect can be given by turn
ing it back in large revers, which fall
over the sleeves The blazer effects so
popular last summer are all displaced by
the short Jackets, and, ergo, we all won
der how we could possibly have worn
them so long and so generally as we did
AT garden party last week saw some
delightful costumes. A lady who stood
out above all the rest of the bright
throng was ROBBED in a grenadine of blue
and straw color, which hung over a
petticoat of pale yellow. The skirt was
a Loie Fuller, accordion-plaited, very
graceful. 1t had no trimming The bodice
was merely gathered into a narrow full
belt of blue, and had a small white
mouse-line yoke inserted, also gathered
AT the joining of the chemisette and the
bodice was blne bow, The
|
that fell over it, Enthusiastically EN-
broidered in many bright eolors II
started at the waist-line in the back
where ii was fastened to the dress, botl
ends joined, in point. The point grad
ually widened as it rose, and finally an
end fell over each shoulder, down the
front, even to the feet, where it was
edged with long silken fringe. The sleeves
were also puffs, reaching but to the ell
bow, long yellow gloves coming up to meet
them. The lady evidently was not salts
fled with the amount of coloring exhibited
thus far, for she had added a graceful
curving chip of cream color, trimmed
with red buds and cream lace.
In marked contrast to the brilliant
figures stood a harmonious picture il
ecru silk rayed with narrow stripes OF
satin, just dead leaf shade. The edge OF
the skirt was prettily trimmed with full
fans of lace. The fans fell over a twist OF
'ursuline' colored or plum velvet, caught
every few inches with big velvet rosette
The waist was all of fine folds of guimp
ure, plated over white. Narrow plum
bretelles went over the shoulders falling
down the front, under the broad belt and
over the hips for about twelve inches
terminating in rosettes. There were also
rosettes just below the shoulder, at each
side of the front. The sleeves were made
of a rutile of lace above and lace cuff
beneath separated by puff of the silk OF