Evening star., 1898-08-06
FOR UP-TO-DATE WOMEN
Sweet Simplicity Ordained for Future
Bellies.
Sensible Mothers Know How Youth
full Charms Are Best Set Off-A
Model Dancing Dress.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

| Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, August 4, 1898.
A very brief Inspection of the gowns worn
| by girls under eighteen at summer hotels
| will give one fair idea of the refinement
| and good taste of the families to which the
young girls belong. Most conspicuous are
| the daughters of the nouveauX richie, who
at a tender age are allowed to wear elab-
crate gowns and impossible hats. More
quietly gowned and less often in evidence
are the girls who are being carefully trained
| to take their places as society women ir
the course of few years. For these we'll
| reared embryo bellies there are many pretty
yet simple gowns and sarnitures.
! To begin with, each one wears her hair
| in the simplest schoolgirl fashion-gener-
| ally in straight braid or pigtail, as girls
| themselves dub it, with two soft round
curis on the brow, or often no curls at all,
| and the hair waved softly back. Very tall
| girls turn their hair up and tie the braid
| with bow of ribbon or knot 1t softly at
the back Of the braid. The long braid or
| braid turned up with the bow of ribbon
| are considered the most suitable.
| Frocks are worn only to the ankles, and
all symptoms of wearing grown Gp' gowns
| are carefully suppressed.
! Sailor hats for ordinary gowns and leg
| hcrns or white straws for more elaborate
| toilets are usually worn by young girls
| wEcse mothers gown them with the sweet
| simplicity which should be symbolic of this
| golden age of youth. Elaborate flowers
| should be eschewed, ard hats of formal
| shape. An English walking hat with the
| crown half covered with nodding red roses
was seen lately on q girl of sixteen, whose
| easygoing mother allows her to choose her
own clothes without any regard to expense
| II was one of the best examples of what 4
girl OF that age should not wear.
| Tight-fttilg gowns are never chosen by
| r,af la,r
| For them plain cloth skirt and REFER or
zouave jacket worn with shirt waists is
| ideal. The shirt waist lends itself most
successfully to the slender figure of a
young girl, and no older woman can hope
| to hold candle to her if they both appear
| at the same time in this ubiquitous gar
ment. The freshness of the young girls
| skin and the fresh starched linen blend in
a most artistic manner.
Lawns and mullS are particularly suitable
| to young girls, but mean, of course, large
laundry bills, as freshness is an absolute
necessity to their success, and active girls
should and do tumble their frocks. Mos.
gowns in the wardrobe of a young girl are
| made with full skirts and trimmings OF
lace, embroidery and ribbon. In these days
of yokeS, blOISes or full fronts and ZulaVe
jackets or boleros the manner of making
the daughters gowns differs little from
that of mothers but the frocks of the for
iner should be much less elaborate.
strange to relate, with all this elaborate
simplicity of outer garb, the young daugh-
tcrs of official households are allowed the
daintiest and most expensive undergar
nents which are in vogue in that partic-
ular family. For undergarments, it may
Se observed, differently favored in
IGmilies, according to the ideas of its head
Many Won en- of luxurious tastes and hab-
us favor quite simple lingerie, while often
those whose gowns are OF the simplest
reVel in undergoWns of dalntiness End
teauty. Women whose husbands have
long battied for the comfort which it must
&c N 10.
The root of al. evil' never reconcile them
selves to the free use of money to the ex-
ient OF squandering 1t upon their personal
III observed adornment, and their daugh-
ters are dressed simply as to lingerie
even If sometimes overdressed as to gowns
Timely Wisdom Taught.
wise women, however, who have a sta
ton in life to which they hope their taugh-
tiers will succeed foster in these growing
girls refinement and luxury by surround
ing them with as much daintiness and
beauty as their financial situation allows
always limiting them to that outward SIM
plic1ty or adorrment which is the height
of taste
The silk patticoats of young girls, for in
stance, are quite elaborate and beauti-
fuf as those made for older women Their
stockings and gloves receive the same care
and attention and the former are of silk If
wearing silk hose happens to be the. fortune
of that particular family Her shoes re-
qulre even more attention, for the tender
rect must BE- most carefully fitted and shod
at an age where they have scarcely stopped
growing and their future symmetry depends
upon present care. Most young girls wear
loW-cut shoes or ties with bulldog toes low
heels and moderately heavy soles all sum
ner ana heavy Waterproof buttoned boots
IN the winter. Very smart and pretty are
the piack satin dancing pumps of the
youthful future bale. These are generally
worn with scarlet silk stockings, and often
the ribbons of the gown match the red of
me nose. Ihe matching of hose and sash
ribbons, however, is not confined to yo,In.,
girls alone, as their sisters who are already
out often appear with gorgeous-hued Ro
man sashes about their waists, while peen
ing from out dainty petticoat is a stock
ing Wh1ch naSheS the same CAV Roman
stripe -''ii
Although the present rage for decorations
mas made Jewelry very popular so much so
that the fortunate possessors of sfrinrs Of
pearls wear them upon all and every ocos-
sion and often in lieu of a collar. this de-
lisht OF the heart of a growing girl is de-
lieo her by her up-to-date mamma. Ban
giles, brooches and chains are not consider
"a suitable for girl in her early teens
A Rose in Her Hair.
The only adornment she is nermittea at
The festivities which are SO much more to
her than they will be in the days to come
is single rose or carration in her smooth
~ braided hair. This seems rather hard
Tor though the years to come may bring he,
Jewels in rrofusion she cannot get from
them the delight which a single bracelet
or ring will afford her before she has come
to twenty years
The dancing gowns of daughters who are
not yet out are generally of some trans
parent material over silk slip A gown
of ivory white net embroidered with seed
pearls was recently seen. The wearer had
her hair smoothly braided and hanging to
her waist. She wore the scarlet hose ard
black pumps above described, and instead
OF gloves had on long white silk mittens
The gown was decoiette of course, and short
sleeved. Gown and girl together were a
vision OF youthful loveliness which made
one dream of a too near future when the
simplicity would be cast aside but the love-
llneSS remain. MABEL ROYD