Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-04
COSTUMES SEEN AT A ROOF GARDEN.

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statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn
bridge, besides many other interesting
things. The Jersey shore is wonder of
industry and activity.
We can go from there in an hour to
the beautiful bridges that span the
Harlem and to the park beyond. We
can wander in Central park at our will.
and, in short. one could easily spend
one week in delightful trips around and
about the city outdoors. Then there is
the fine Museum of Art and that of
Natural History, each worth a full
weeks study. There are dozens of other
places of interest where one can go at
only the cost of car fare, and by the sys-
tenn of transfers this is reduced to a
minimum. A person whose business
will permit few days spare time or d
few hours each day may at a trifing
expense see many things in New York
worth long voyage and Re laying up
q store of knowledge of real practical
use.
The. libraries are cool and pleasant
these hot days, and the treasures within
are incalculable, and they are free.
Then if one wants TO sit down and rest
and be amused there are the theaters.
Few of them are open in the summer,
but some are, and they are cooled, and
8 fine breeze is circulated through them
by electricity. Ice water is served be-
tween the acts and the plays are light
and airy too. The roof gardens are open
every night, and up high in the air one
may sit amid palms and oleanders and
listen to the music or watch the per-
formance, at the same time keeping a
glass with two straws in 1t within
reach. The roof gardens are great in
stitution in New York, and many of
the swell set slip away from the fatigues
Of Newport and the lassitude of Sara
toga to spend an occasional night in
town to go to one of the roof gardens.
Some of the prettiest costumes of a
season are seen at these places. Dainty,
airy organdies, trimmed with lace,
ruffies and insertions, fine foulards with
floral designs, or the ever pretty polka
dots in white ON blue ground or dark
blue or black on white ground.
Some dainty millinery is also to be
seen at the roof gardens. One new fancy
is to have straw hat of fine milan or
leghorn lifted up from the face, with
a row of flowers nesting against the
hair in front. Plumes curl over the
brim, and strings made of one width of
silk null four yards long are brought
down and wound around the neck and
then on to the waist. where they cross
and tie around like belt. 1t is very
pretty and quite novel.
The blouse waist and the fancy shirt
waist are seen here, too, and so are snug
and trim tailor suits of every variety.
Boleros. jockeys and figaros, as well as
Eton jackets, are all found among the
smartest set Many Etons are made of
lawn or some other thin stuff and over
laid with Limerick lace or heavy point
de venise. Detached designs of this rich
lace are sewed to many costumes as ad
ditions to braided trimming or as a
finish to insertion or fat ribbon. 1t is
very effective in blue dotted lawn.
The skirt was made with nine rows of
narrow white ribbon in clusters and
two folds of the lawn in scallops to sim
ulate double tunic. The bodice was in
form of a bolero with deep scalloped
collar On this collar was rich ap-
plique design of lace.
There are also many new pattern
dresses made of white and cream china
Grape with hemstitched borders and
raised embroidery on the skirt There
are few new designs in white satin
where the panels, tunics, yokes, revers
and fgaros are of heavy cream colored
lace. One or two had lighter lace
These are not unlike the white satin
and lace dress worn last week by one of
Newport's swellest set, and it was worn
in the street
A new fancy brought forward from
last century is the scarf or mantle or
mantelette. These garments have the
back arranged in a kind of festoon
hanging low ON the shoulders. The