Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-26

the air, the light and the elbow room in
Yankee shops are worth while. London
dealer may send you out of doors and
around to the next entrance to find the
continuation of the glove counter, If you
have been considering yellow and ask to
see tans. And he doesn't encourage I'M
necessary shopping by any reckless pro-
fusion of elevators. You must know what
you want and want it very much before
you face the liveried flunkeys at the door
of London shop, tread the dim labyrinths
within and engage the services of the
young woman behind the counter, who has
to unearth her goods from so many bur-
rows that even the most wanton shopper"
seeing the trouble 1t Is to show goods, Is
cured quickly Of 'just looking at things.
The young woman herself is nicer to deal
with than most of her kind on this side of
the water, which Is perhaps, why the con-
science pricks II articles are not purchased
after she has gotten out search warrant
to discover them. American shops are big
ger than those of London, buster, more
democratic A great deal more is done in
large way for the comfort Of the shopper
by the management, great deal less in
small ways by the people with whom d.
rectly the shopper has to deal. New York
shops carry more goods and more varied
goods, but there are drawbacks to this ad-
vantage. The Ieady-made system has de-
crowd of women on 23d street during the
busy hours reminds one of the afternoon
walk OF the pupils of a continental convent
school, all In costume de pension The
I'd street colors are not so quiet and SIM
pie as the black cashmere frocks and broad
white hats with white plumes of the school
children; but If the blue blazer women
could be punched on one block, and the
gray blazers ON another, the white ducks
on third and the brown crash suits on a
fourth, the women who were left out of
these groups and who didn't belong to the
grand army of black skirts with shirt
waists wouldn't pack a single bridge car.
Ready-made suits are far better fitting and
smarter than they used to be, but this fact
is cold comfort to a woman who has bought
me me very latest thing in tailor gowns abroad
ana has come home only to find the pride Of
her heart copied by the hundred in cheaper
goods, but with precisely the same effect in
every shop she enters, and rubbing elbows
with her on every street corner Yes.
american shops are great institutions.
Outing Suits.
The woman who objects to becoming
simply private in the uniform of the
outing suit must study colors as well
as cut and material. Ptque costumes are
made this summer in o@hitS with a hell
skirt and with a slashed, Eton jacket trim
med with white, red or blue pioue simn
Substitute for the Etonethe newer French
Jacket bodice. and for lthe bell skirt the
seven-gored bias to bias slsff4, use a soft.
creamy gray pique instfad II white, wear
with 1t front of pink China silk, and
you will have, If your pink Is well chosen
and shows opal lights, xlcosfume infinitely
more becoming with the COMPLIMENTARY ef-
rect OF Its beautiful cofors than the hard
and uncompromising white Of the regula-
tion suit and one that will let you feel more
Individuality. Rather a dark complexion.
clear and with some color Is more fayora-
Bile for this combination
Among the newer summer materials
there Is q very pretty silky batiste that
ought to. be utilized before 1t becomes
more common, II not less charming It
can be found In wide range Of white
ana cream tones, in pinky mauves and
IN clear pinks and blues, and II 1t be made
with a plain skirt turned up in deep
hem and crossed bodice whose folds are
carried around to the back and knotted,
nothing Is wanted but a little lace and
ribbon and girl inside who is having q
good time to produce one of the most
successful effects Of the season.
Artistic and beautiful.
The printed lawns Swiss muslins, deli
cate India mulls, lowered Dresden mus
Inns, rosebud organizes and Marie Antoi-
nette striped muslins are SO artisticaliy
beautiful and 30 varied this season that
the task Of contriving original dresses with
their help ought to prove an easy one.
There was packed or to Newport this week
an airy costume of soft, canary colored
muslin inquired with white The diaphan.