Evening star., 1898-06-04
FOR UP-TO-DATE WOMEN
Bathing Dresses in Plaids and Red, White
and Blue.
F1nnncls, SerGes. Mohuirs and silks
Are All tsed-The Latest I'm Bon
nets and Stays.
Special Correspondence of The Evenin. Star.

| Special Correspondence of The Evenin. Star.
| NEW YORK. June . 1895
NOW that the first scare has subsi,led,
and we feel that our cherished ocean front
IS saIe In spite OF wars alarms. prepare
| TORS for a summer by the sea so merrily
| forward, and whether we buy our ma
| terials, CT whether they are manufactured
at hone, we must have the latest fads and
faEcies embodied in bathing dresses.
| The cheerful red, white ard blue effect
| Which has crept into SO many warGrohes
| mas left its mark Upon materials for bath
! ing dresses, and although it is to be hop d
that no one bather will be so careless Of
! her use of the colors to make a bathing
! gown with white trimmings and chooses to
T, crown it all with a cap or handkerchief of
blue. she will not find herself alone in her
! choice of shades. Cerise flannel is Cspe-
| claiiy popular, but Il is trimmed with ba *
braid as often as with white.
| Or one may enc Sc blue fer the suit and
Apply botn red and black braid for trim
| ming without being a all CISreSpeCtfui.
| NohGir is a material much fancied by
| batherS, for it dries SoCn as one has left
! the water, and in black it never fades.
| But ii is considered dangerous for the
! northern resorts, is apt to catch
| cold if < wrap is not thrown over it the
| instant one leaves the water. as ii has no
W dTl TN OF us own. 1t comes in black.
| water green and hue as well as in the
gdyest plaids.
| Plaid bathing dresses promise to be very
| popular indeed and one may carry the
| Idea through the entire tune that is
| stockings and cap Of plaid may be worn As
| well as the dress. Til Sc pads come N
serge as wei as in mclair and pcpiif AID
nothing will be more becoming TO young
Women with slender figures. Oder women
| are warned to try them with care, as they
depend to great extent upon the con.ii-
| tion of the skin. and will invariably be
more becoming to pink-cheeked blondes or
| clear-skinned bru;iettes han to the ajor-
| :ty of intermediate competitions.
IN serges the newest Of all is said to lie
! waterproof by The manufacturers. 1t does
! rot bscoIGe water legged as ordinary
! flannel. and is said 10 dry almost as quick
| ~ as r:ohair. without the objection attach
! ing to the latter 1t comes in various solid
! cCiors, but does rot yet appear in :he
! = a dS abo.e scrihed.
All bathing suits are trimmed with braid
| in greatest profuSou. sometimes as |
mentioned before, in braid OF two colors
! Whit or red braid is used on navy blue
or steel blue usually white braid on the red
dresses. while black may be trimmed with
| white or red. or both. and the white serge
bathing dresses, so rare and pretty, are
trimmed with either red or blue al
| though the latter is preferred. The design
OF the braid cannot be too elaborate, al
though oae sees many skirts and blouses
which simply have two or three rows Of
narrow braid about them.
Low Necks and short skirts.
Almost without exception bathing dresses
are low necked and short sleeved this sum-
mer. it has been found So difficult to make
d long sleeve in bathing suit anything
but ungraceful. while ii is difficult to finish
a high neck in flannel, that it will be be-
coming. Generally the blouses are cut
square i'll the neck. with braided vest
ending in at the waist line.
Skirts are rather short not much below
the knees, as that has been found by eX-
perience to be the most graceful length,
and Tor swimming they should be little
shorter.
one sees many ready made suits with
waist and boomers, or knickerbockers, in
one, and skirt buttoning on the belt But
this is no longer the best way, indeed it
was never the best, ii only happened to be
the conception of a bathing suit which pre-
vailed Now We have evolved from that.
In the first place, although the coat and
skirt may be of almost any washable and
heavy material one wishes, the knicker-
bockers are usually made of mohair This
is ighteSt and best. Then. too, more and
more women are. beginning to appreciate
the bathing tights, winch lake the place of
knlckerbocktls and can be had short
enough to only reach the stockings at the
knee, or can be had with the tights and
stockings III one. This latter arrangement
does away with the trouble there has al
ways been about keeping the bathing stock
ings in place. And il ever IL necessary
to have trmly hed up stockings it WAS
with a bathing dress. Many women COM
plain tnat the tights with feet are eXpen-
SNe, one wears out the feet 50 very
soul. But one should always wear the
white canvas shoes with these tights, or
sanoa.s OF cork Or rGye Tights be
Eau every conceivable color and stripe,
and III silk, Wool or cotton silk pref
ers.Gie to either Of the other malerlaIs, and
Eothing but poverty can excuse the cotton.
Water stays and Bonncts.
Bathing corsets, if indulged in, should
tie those especially sold for the purpose,
which are elastic and not binding, as one
takes great deal of exercise, even in
bathing III still water, and Old and |
tight corset is dangerous unless one simply |
Gces down to the water to be gaZed at. as
rumor whispers is uone at certain summer |
resorts Ii knickerbockers and bathing |
Corscts are WON LEY can be attached 10
each other, and there are various methods |
OF keeping an unruly stocking uaut when |
che has Il par Cf these corsSls.
Tafeta silk bathing suits are the very i
iutest novelty, anu said to De very |
satisfactory, but tLey will, OF course, have |
the same objection niohair-they Will be |
cold. Satin has always been somewhat |
worn. and MAJ black satin suits Will pe |
seen this summer. Satin is nrm, sheds |
the water and keeps Its color.
From Paris come water bonnets of oil |
silk, which are quite pretty Each year |
there is an Improvement made in oil silk |
bathing caps, until now they things |
of beauty and becoming to most women. /
La spite of u belief prevalent among many |
people that salt water is good for the hair |
most women have found to their discom- |
fort and sorrow that the hair must be |
kept dry unless they wish to spend half /
the day in secIusien while it is being /
brought into Subjugation again. There
fore, anything that promises dry hair and |
some amount of comelness at the same 1
time is sure to be tried