The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-09
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New York. June S.-This month Of roses
and weddings, and commencement, is
now thoroughly launched. and while the
last stitches are being taken in the bridal
and the graduating clothes, the brides are
bidding farewell to their girl friends at
all sorts of little luncheons and teas, and
the girl graduates are putting In the
closing paragraphs of their commence
ment theses.
Meantime every ambitious woman is I'm
ishing up her summer OUTFIT for the long
season that is to be spent far away from
the dressmaker and the dress goods mar
ket. There is nothing 50 melancholy as
the unhappy woman who goes away for
the summer with a wardrobe designed for
warm weather only to fiEd a cold. driz
Fly, forbiddng season ahead of her. She
goes shivering about in shirt waists ana
shawls, limp and sorrowful. and there is
no help for her until the box Of winter
dresses arrives, ali be-eamphored and
fresh from storage. Even these are but
makeshifts, and though they are warm
.
and not fitted for travelling about.
That woman is wise who first decides
where she viii go, and then prepares her
wardrobe accordingly. If she is to spend
her summer in the mountains, her gowns
viii be warm and serviceabe-the kind
that she can climb in and wear in all
sorts Of weather. Dress skirts are short
and not very fun. Fashion yields to con
venience out among the hills, where ma
ture. and not Nine. Grundy is the queen.
1t is only in city streets. where it is easy
to ride, and where women walk very lit
tie, that they win submit to styles which
interfere with the free use of their bodies.
Ten-yard skirts and razor-pointed toes
are all right for a leisurely promenade
down a fashionable city street, but the
sensible woman puts a pair of stout.
square-toed walking boots in her trunl,
when she starts for the country. This is
very English anyway, and that is COM
fcrting, when she looks at the unwonted
size of her once fairy feet Speaking Of
feet suggests those heathenish buttoned
ties in which fashionable women are
now reforming their feet. Heathensh Is
not an extravagant epithet at all, for no
Chinese woman ever squeezed her poor
little, broken feet any tighter than the
civilized American public is now pinch
ing it's toes. The shoes, both high and
low are so sharp you can't see them.
There is no denying, however, that
they are pretty, considered, of course,
in the abstract, and not in their relation
to the human foot. The tan shoes come
in prettler colors than last year-a de-
Al,
being the predomnating shades. The
brown ones are so dressy that they might
almost be worn on state occasion, but
black are the more elegant Both black
and tan shoes come laced, which is the
fashionable style for walking boots. The
buttoned boots have large buttons, the
small ones being entirely out of fashion.
So many women have taken up the fad
of bicycling that special shoes have been
devised for this sport alone. Summer
bicycle shoes are general low, because
the logging is a necessity anyway, and
there Is no need of adding warmth with
another shoe top For the same reason
that mountain shoes are broad-toed, BIZ
cycle shoes should also be comfortable.
In place of the hot felt or leather leg
gings. the large stores are selling a can
vas variety which answers all purposes,
and is much cooler. The canvas is in
linen color, and has a twilled appear
ance Shoes are also made of this ma
teriaI. and the combination is very styl-
ish.
To suit the new tints in shoes, the tan
stockings are a somewhat different shade,
and the woman who bought the tan stock
ings that were sold a short time ago on
the bargain counter finds, to her sorrow,
that they do not match her new tan ties.
other stockings have openwork fronts
or embroidered clocks up the side. One
fine black pair had clocks embroidered
in chenille.
If one is going TO spend the summer in
a warm climate the more thin dresses she
has the better, especially If it be an inland
resort. One Of the daintiest dresses in
large uptown store was pale blue Swiss,
dotted with tiny white dots The skirt
had a couple of three-inch fiounces edged
with Velenciennes around the bottom. The
waist was a blouse with a Valenciennes
strip down the front and a sailor collar in
three layers of white null, edged with
lace Folds Of white satin finished the
lower edge Of the blouse. The sleeves were