The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17
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Braided Brown serEe with = nOlsFO
Jacket the Favorite.

has arrived of decorating the clotn8drt
lightly with corded fgurings, but so
loading the scat or waist with braid
that little of it's original color is seen
and double weight and heat are gained
The majority of skirts are liked with
gay checked red and white, cool green
and white, OF striped silk shirts, and
are rarely accompanied by close-ftting
waists to match. A complete costume
consists of a skirt and bolero jacket,
this last worn over a linen shirt waist
or a bodice that is o or less fanciful-
ly decorated. A tailor who sincerely
has YOU well being at heart would adj
wise you to get for touring purposes q
toilet Of blue sailcloth. Its chiefest rec
concentration is its coat waist with
cape sleeves, that slips on over any
thing you may please to wear, from a
board bosom shirt to a chiffon bodice.
AS it is the first of the bolero jackets to
come over accompanied by sleeves it can
easily be guaranteed a most affection
ate popularity, for first Of all it Is a
realization of supreme convenience and
comfort.
BY such wraps as these the golf cape
long cherished by the travelling woman
has almost, if not quite, disappeared,
No capes at all are carried any longer.
and when this little bolero is taken of
it may as frequently as not reveal a
delicately elaborate waist u~nderneath.
That is because the very modern travel
ing suit consists of four pieces, a skirt,
a waist for morning wear, one for even
ing use, and a bolero coat. The morning
waist is flannel, percale, while with the
original of this sketch was sold a waist
meant to be donned with the skirt of an
evening, when the wearer inhotel or on
board steamship made herself ready for
dinner.
Serge continues the favorite material,
however, and brown the favorite color.
Undoubtedly a boon are the travelling
chapeaux, made to order to suit special
gowns. If, for example, you have a red,
green, or blue steamer dress, the mill
liner will weave q brim of straw, build
a crown of a bit of ones material, and
adjust wings, flowers and ribbons to
coincide with both. Sometimes she will
weave the brim all of rough mOhair
braid on a wire foundation, while with
one accord the ladies of quality set
forth on their journeys this season
gloved in the palest tints. White and
the highest tan dogskin three-buttoned
giants are the choice, and they are In
tended to fit the hand as easily as driv-
ing gloves, shgEing only the most in
conspicuous stitchings. Here and there,
where frivolity win out. a traveller OF
youthful bearing and a slim waist mp
pears in one of the new tourist belts OF
! flexible gold. studded at intervals with
emerald pebbles, and having suspended
from one side q small bead or gilt net
purse, with o gate top catch; else q
small wallet of violet moire silk bound
in gold.
If a cape is worn at all when travel
ing, one of scarlet-faced cloth is the
proper garment. It must fall in fouH
or five rufies, and every rufae is lined
with checked silk, in black and white
usually. Instead of a cape, though, by
way of an extra wrap. a Russian blouse
is regarded as far more modish. 1t but
tons down from the left shoulder, gath
ers in at the waist, to show off a gem
studded gilt belt, and falls only about
two inches below the hip, but as to its
warmth no doubts can be entertained
Rough Cowes serge and Maltese storm
/, cloth are what they are made Of, lined
with char scarlet taffeta and allowed
when belted in to blouse amply round
I the waist. That is, it literally overhangs
the belt, both at back and front, and the
! very handsome ones are cut from pure
; cream white Maltese cloth, heavily
I braided in gold galoon.
4 But when weighty coats and capes arr
; laid aside and the wandering American
woman sits down to her hotel or steam
q ship saloon dinner a different effect O.
travelling costume is displayed, for il
! place of bolero or Russian blouse she
: wears her travelling bodice. For
i brown dress it is apt to be of brown
. batiste embroidered in corn flowers anC
/ checked with corn flower blue ribbon;
with the skirt Of a maroon cloth it's al
, of white chiffonSsrrigged in lavender
the chiffon bagging at back and front
. over a belt Of lettuce green taffeta rib
: bon and the collar and yoke of blue vel
vet. Then it is she exchanges her higl
I brown shoes for strap slippers that re
, veal her nautical stockings. sea blue
Isle thread all over with minute white
4 life preservers or anchors; brown. per
haps, showing scarlet crabs and cloaket
in coils of white cordage. On deck owe
the sailor hats, in place Of the sewing
silk or chiffon wells, batiste sun pro
~tectors are worn, their chief virtue be
: ing that a tubing in soap and warn
! water does them no harm. 1t is onl.
: fair to say hat they are pretty, toe
! coming in every imaginable color, witt
a row of little square white tucks alonI
J the bottom, cut square or shaped GU
!. like o half moon to fit neatly on an,
: hat-Boston Globe.
The Seasons Frills.
: The ever-popular linen and duck suit
are ~crowding into the places Of tn
\ heavier costumes in vogue in earl,