The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-21

A white linen belt that goes into the
wash every week and comes out blanch-
ed and stiff is the magic sestus of the
modern Venus. One end of this sensible
girdle is made TO receive heavy, simple
art pearl or silver buckle, and the other
end is shaped like pointed tongue of
harness, with buttonholed eyelets worked
in at intervals.
The same sensible girls who wear these
wash belts wear little white linen hats
that also go TO the tub and laundry line
for scrubbing, starching and bleaching. a
line of very small buttons and button
| holes run up the backs of such hats en-
abling the laundress to lay them out per-
fectly fat when she wants TO use her
irons What with wash gloves ii only re-
mains for the manufacturer to invent
shoe that can share in this universal tub
bling. There is surely a moral to be
drawn from that vanity in dress that has
inspired women to the glorification of no
richer material than simple pique
! Pique is decidedly a toute allie goods, a
| material associated with the washtub
and designed TO be built upon the sim
| plest lines. But womankind will have it
otherwise and some of the pique gowns
/ this summer are worthy in the richness
! of their decoration to take place be-
makers art. Expensive white embroi-
| derry and lace appear on many of them.
| Shaped founces of rare needlework is a
usual manner of establishment though
some pique skirts in pale rose, or tea
rose yellow have rich black and white
lace together. applied in vines and fes-
/ toons on the tinted cotton surface.
Pique bolero jackets show wide revers,
covered with beautiful appliques of satin
/ N NTaF lef- Df bod
chiffon. and are completed with wide
| black satin girdles. This Is all undoubt-
| edly caressing to the eye. but II is an I'M
natural and tasteless perversion of mate
| rial from its true sphere of usefulness
1t would be just as reasonable to paint
noble pictures on barn door,
If any impatient soul longs for fore
word about the coat fashions for the now
! not very distant autumn, let her open her
/ ears to most agreeable saga concerning
| the Chesterfield coat. Let no mistake be
! made, this is not a jacket, but coat with
/ a decent length of skirt and superbly
4 simple in cut and makeup. Jackets will
continue TO be undignifiedly abbreviated
! as to tail, they will boast a good deal of
/ jaunty and Unnecessary trimming, but the
| Chesterfield will sweep almost TO the
] knee. Its skirt will not be very full, and
in perfection of state il will be made of
| iady's melton or the rich grayish brown
| fine cloth, over which much justifiable
| enthusiasm is felt.
1t is said in high places that women
are going to wear as many buttons before
! long as the soldier in full dress-not brass
! knobs however, but lovely disks and balls
| and triangICs of crystal. The foreign max
| ers of glass have had hint from Paris
| which is official, and in Venice and Bo-
| hernia they are preparing 10 earn fortunes
| by making gorgeous buttons to dazzle
| American eyes and empty American pock-
| cts. Buttons they say, will be prominent
| on skirts and on wraps, and beside these
| crystal wonders, a fashion is arising Tor
japanese bronze, ivory, and silver bronze
buttons of the strangest and most at
| tractive grostequerie.
When in doubt as to how best to fin
ish off her toilet at the waist line, every
woman ties about herself ribbon SASH
Few sashes designed as such, appear
anywhere, but the ribbon RACES SO TO
speak. Chiefly grenadine and limousine
| ,ihbon. for they are soft lead the way,
| and a great deal of emphasis is laid on
| the manner in which you shape your rib
bon ends.
a wide. crisp ribbon sash will have
| its ends cut in a series of five deep
tooth-like indentations, while very many
| women cut their streamers in hatchet-
| shape A swallow-fork or a bias shear,
hon-clirping have been set aside, and
! lightning edge is what many q sash end
boas.s. a lightning edge is just a series
of irregular jags, like the course of those
thunderbolts the active American eagle
grasps and a good many sashes are
snipped out to resemble a bellows point
or carved at their terminus. to convey
the idea of an Indian arrowhead. A sash
must not, for all this, be a striking fea-
ture Of costume.
If there is anything new under the
sun. nnackerel cloth is one of the mate
| rials not seen before. 1t is exceedingly
lovely. with scaly weave that reflects
opalescent lights, very much like the
high and soft lights in a moired goods.
Woven Of linen and silk, and just a
thread of WOOL this is a fabric sure 10
win popularity. 1t belongs truly in the
scope of autumn things. for its weight
will make is most serviceable and COM
Portable for crisper days. With 1t goes
a pretty mackerel braid. that resembles
the bright side Of the willy fish as he
glides through the cold water.
An empress knot and the type of profile
it can best be worn with is displayed in
the accompanying group OF coiffures. The
empress knot, to appear at best advan-
tage. must also adorn a graciously shap-
ed head but this hint it is only fair to
drop-that if a woman lacks sufficient
luxuriance of tress to make out a hand
some couture it is the very best method
of unobtrusively utilizing false hair.
The most approved new mode of adjust
ing a coronet, and the bang and couture
for very young lady, are delineated in
the two accompanying heads in this group
! of hair structures I'D to date.
Not In the future, but In the living
present, are women wearing earrings.
Mrs Mackay, with her invariable and in
valuable black pearls, is said to have put
this fashion again on its feet in London.
Thence 1t has come to Coiumbia's shores.
So far pearls are almost exclusively used
| for ear ornament, while the pearl strung
chains or gorgeous gold gives are the
sole types of bracelet worn at all. Only
ION the high arm, moreover, are these gems
utilized, for common sense, in its struggle
with feminine vanity, still contrives to
snatch few concessions in point of com
, fort. ~