The morning times., 1895-09-15

the know" tell with smiles OF the fine
hanging skirt that is of heavy serge.
Around -.he hem is a row of little weights
| at small distances apart, not heavy, but
just heavy enough to fight the winds.
They tell of criDoline underneath and
of not a single skirt to tangle the limbs
| and prevent freedom OF walk. There is
a Cup Girl set of underwear for this
| kind of skirt. Every Cup Girl knows
what it is and how it is. She knows
the tghtDess of the wool, the dancing
girl suggestion of its lower portions
and the boned shapeliness of its upper
parts. She knows, too, that il costs
a great deal.
The dress waist with this sea captainess
skirt is jersey without shoulder puffs.
1t is the little plain old Jersey which
English girls wore to death. 1t fits like
flannel shirt. 1t is pulled on over the head,
and 1t clings to the waist and hips like a
sweater, only it is fine and light, and
trimmed with small braids, like dress
waist.
The regular loose Cup Girl cloak is
slipped Oh over this and the Cup Girl is
telling the actual truth when she says she
is neither cold nor hot, Just comfortable,
for never was there 4 rig better fitted to
the weather than this one.
The cup girl is not new woman, but
she leaves off corsets. She is actually
obliged to do this because, with those
bony things on she could not initiate the
seamans roll as she walks across deck when
the sea is high, nor could she stoop for
the rope nor jump for the sheet, or bend
across the wheel when pressure must be
put on. She is shapely girl, OF course,
and looks trim for "a that; for well she
knows that her own bones. offset with
the boned under-rigging, will support
her figure into nineteenth century ideas VI
| beauty.
THOSE TWIN DUNRAvENS.
The Dunraven sisters wear queer cup
gowns. Their habitual dress, for they
dress as alike as peas in the same pod,
is black serge shirt, a white yachting
coat. loose, and big'sleeved and hanging
| almost to the knees, and a big muffler
for casting around the throat. They stand
upon the VaIkyrie deck side by side and
clasp hands agonizedly when the big cup
boat falls back. When she points ahead and
shows her gait they stand apart and look
as though cIapping their hands, so fantas-
tically do the ends of the neck nIufflers
dash together in the brisk wind.
Mrs. lselin ciings to her conventional
dress. She is too busy and too tired to look
up new ways of becoming 4 cup girl, but
Mrs. George Gould has all the very latest
agonies in dress In the Norwegian fjords
she picked up gown of deep red wool 1t
looks heavy as several boards and woolly
as the back of sheep. Crisp days she gets
| herself up i'll this, aud warmer days she
wears a very triggish dress that looks like
a Worth. But she,- too, has sucumbed to
the long, loose yachting cloak. She slips it
on and off, and spectators notice that to-
| day it is navy blue. tomorrow light blue,
| and next day white or drab. Its sleeves
| are always immense aud of a contrasting
| color, except in the light blue material,
when the whole cloak is like the heavens ona
| winning race day.
The Cup Girl is the sequel to the sum-
mer girl, and bachelors who were not con-
| quered by the seashore goddess are quail
ing before her autumn kin. She is so ueat
| in dress, so comfortable in appearance,
so ooatenied so useful and So charming
that the summer cargo OF broken heaz
twice the heavier for her advent.
HELEN WI