The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-05-09

most cobwebby parasols and shades that
ever were. Some of the coaching parasols
and those to wear. to the races and also
everywhere where particularly dressy
effect Is aimed at are 80 fine as to seem
like cobwebs drawn over lilies in the
nighttime, and when daylight comes the
mystic veil is covered with cleaning
dewdrops. The sheer white silk tissue
is drawn over the delicate frame and
bordered with flmy ruffie, while inni-
tation diamonds carry out the illusion.
There are others, also Of tissue or some
other transparent white stuff, and hor-
dering the edges is q row of rainbow
velvet, cut crosswise Of the piece, so that
it shades crosswise Of the width. Others
have this band set down each steel, which
is pretty, and the pieces are placed care
fully SO that the shading comes exactly
even. One stylehas the parasol of china
Grape, with an inserting Of silk lace two
inches wide, set in two inches from
the edge, and this was finished by a very
full ruff1e Of fine white lace. All lace
used on parasols is of the ightest and
filmiest description. The handles are
long and white and beautifully orna-
mented, or Of carved ivory. Indeed, I
cannot remember seeing such delicate
and rich parasols before.
For those who like them there are
plaid surah parasols, some with fringe
in co1ors to match those in the silk, some
with knife plated rllf11es and some plain
ly hemmed. The black rain parasol is
about the same, except that the handles,
/ think, are rather longer than I have
seen and very quaint, some of them even
grotesque, in design. One had horrid
bulldogs head with the teeth out-not
that think a bulldog is SO very horrid,
but the carved misrepresentation Of
him was
But the summer girls? Oh, yes. One
| know will have pale lilac china silk
dotted like great crystal beads, and this
will have a succession Of II bias folds in
clusters of three2-inch ones and two wide
ones on plain umbrella skirt. The
sleeves viii be the dropping puff, with a
yoke OF figured silk in pale rose and green
on white ground. The lower portion
of the bodice will be draped so as to leave
loose nestlike arrangement. Her hair
will be dressed with one wicked little
curl right down in the middle of her
forehead, and her hat corn colored and
lilac Grape halo.
The other one will have s'shot" taf-
fetas, peachblow red and apple green.
Around the bottom Of the skirt are to be
nine narrow fiat ribbons and one puff Of
satin Of the same shade an inch wide
above the bands. This same style will be
carried out for collars and yoke, which
is Of white canton Grape. The sleeves
are balloon" with the forearm a sue
cession of shirrings. The waist is sur
plice opening over the white vest and
fastening at the right side with buckle
and three loops Of the silk. The hat to
go with this is chip poke, with bronze
green plumes, and the "damozel' who
will wear this to strike envy into the
other summer girls heart will do, as now
she does, wear her hair in the quaintest
little bowknot above the parting, which
is really quite to one side.
The hats they will wear--these dainty
summer girls-are. what the French call
"ravissante" and dozen other appre-