The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-15
GIRL AT THE HOP.
n taCLEs OF DRESS SHE WILL
WEAR THIS SUMMER.

Kew York, May lathe girl you meet at
the iop in summer is always a mysterious
creature. She is so different from the
athletic. girl with whom you bicycle all
da,. that yop scarcely recognize her as
1 one and the same being.
This summer her athletic personality
will be 50 hidden at the hop. beneath a
mass OF himsy garments that you viii new
er recoenize her The girl with whom
YOU viu tennis. cycle. golf and shoot dies
at dinner time; and in the evening there
burs.s out a butterfly of bright colors and
gauza.
If rs a faithful fashion writer, were
asked 20 name the one material which will
be the most in vogue this summer. should
uni. tatlngly reply, "Gauze."
or course, I know there is no such ma
terra. particularly when applied 20 dress
goods, but &c the dressmaker and fashion
writer everything thin and transparent.
par.lke Of the nature of gauze. You can
see through it; it is easily fashioned; it can
be draped it can be placed in graceful
Shapes; It is universally becoming; it is,
in short, a great deal different and more
easily managed than the glossy velvet and
the difficult silk.
The materials for ballroom dresses this
summer will be organdie, NULL grenadine.
tarieton, and swiss with a great prefer
enee for swiss. All come under the name
OF gauze.
Swiss is a goods which can be purchased
al any price. You can get dotted swiss
for ten cents yard which will be very
suitable for window curtains or FOR sum
mer dresses. From that low price you
can advance to 81 a yard along the
lines of swiss The most popular swiss
comes at about 40 cents a yard. It is
very thin and it has very large silky
figure in It, 1t is extremely delicate to
the touch and is a delightful summer ma
terial.
For bodices, this summer swiss comes
with very small dots and it is made over
imitation silks. It may be stated that
all hop dresses are made over silk. By
silk is not always meant taffeta. for there
is the near silk and imitation taffeta, which
is very thin and comes at about IS
cents a yard. These take the place of
regular lining and are not so very much
more expensive than ordinary lining.
All ball room dresses are made with drop
skirts. The drop skirt is the skirt under
meath which shows through the thin out
side skirt Very few people buy these
drop skirts separate and so use one skirt
under several different outsides. One girl
who dances a great deal-in fact, who Sc
leets her summer resort on account of ita
dancing propensities-has made no less
than six drop skirts of near silk which she
will wear under various thin materials
during the summer. These drop skirts are
in reseda green, parma blue, quartz gray,
cerse, tan and white. Black and white,
unfortunately. do not lock quite as wen
ins the, near silk, and it is better to, get
taffeta If these colors are used. But in
other shades the imitation silks look pre-
cisely as WELL and no one can tell the diff.
ference except those who pay for them.
With these drop skirts she has fitted
herself out with slippers to match the color
of the skirt. She will have slippers of
blue, red, tan, and so through the list of
skirts.
1t Is not absolutely necessary to have
slippers 90 match these drop skirts. You
can do very nicely by trimming white
satin slippers with bows of ribbon, with
flowers, or with ornaments to match the
skirt. Thus with a parme blue drop skirt
the girl can just as well wear white silk
slippers trimmed with violets. With a
cerse skirt she can trim her white silk
slippers with double satin knots Of cerise
ribbon. With a tan skirt she can orna-
ment her slippers with large buckles of
Etruscan gold, and with her gray skirt
she can trim her slippers with steel buckles
or with steel buttons. In fact many per-
sons prefer thus to trim slippers as they
are prettier than colors upon the feet.
The hop girl viii also be the violet girl
In fact you will see the violet girl a great
deal this summer. She win not wear the
real violets, which become worth their
weight in gold after June but viii con-
tent herself with the silk ones. These silk
ones come highly perfumed in punches so
that,it takes very close observance to tell
the difference between them and the natu-
raj flowers know a great many New
York women who daily stroll up Fifth av-
enue wearing an immense eorsage of VIC
lets so highly scented that you can sniff
them square away, while in all that
bunch there is not twenty-five cents
worth Of real violets, The entire middle
is of silk violets while, scattered around the
edges, are a few real ones. These soon
wither and droop, giving a natural APP
pearance to the whole bunch.
The violet girl win wear a corsage with
broad band of violets around the neck
This may be six inches in breadth and
in her hair will be another bunch of them.
She may also wear a belt that is thickly
studded with them, ana if you happen to
meet her on the piazza in the afternoon
before she has donned her ballroom toilet
you will find her twirling a half-opened
parasol thickly studded with great punches
of the same flowers.
Ballroom gloves this year viii be post
lively resplendeht Mention has often
been made of the fact that gloves do not
seem to receive the amount of attention as
other articles of dress, but no such com
plant can be made this season One OF
the most striking features of the gloves
this year will be their buttons. These will
be of diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sap
phires, pearls and other precious stones.
They will also be of the seni-precious or
Imitation stones
Glove buttons can be obtained in sets OF
Iour each with little gold chains as fast
eners. The fasteners are set into the
gloves by any dealer, and the little chain
IS carried from button 20 button with the
fingers. These fancy buttons also come
already fastened to the gloves and are
extremely pretty if purchased to match
tAe remainder of the toilette. The backs
on the gloves are also stitched in colors,