The times., 1899-03-26


and the proportions of driving coats than
over the ninety and nine details of dress
ing that relate to other occasions.
If you are an economical woman and
your head is longer than your purse you
will go in, SO to speak, for one smart
faced-serge golf suit, and cycle, drive,
walk. and yacht in that alone. If your
purse is bottomiess, then you can ring
dozen changes on the golf costume alone,
beside indulging all your taste and ex-
travagance in endless studies in cloth,
linen, cotton, and silk for the other sport
ing ayocations of your coming summer.
In the event of your deciding upon the
one suit, by all means select your goods OF
the tough, pickly, handsome Scotch fish
wife serge. 1t is SO wide and stanch and
sheds water like a ducks back, though it
is not made waterproof, and therefore hot
and heavy. About the hips, according to
the latest tailor improvements, habit cut
Is given the skirt, allowing no pleats or
fullness anywhere and practically shaping
the garment like bell.
Teilors are using every persuasion in
their power TO bring their patrons to yield
TO their judgment in the matter of pockets.
To the tailor the set OF seam is every
thing, to the modern clear headed woman
her comfort comes first and her looks on
the green is q secondary consideration, go
where the skirt fastens on the inside of
the hip, the pocket slips in. The pockets
though, as we see them in the incest
skirts. are small, REINFORCED pockets OF
silk serge, Just large enough 10 hold q wo-
mans handkerchief and her caddy fee; a
big pocket is clumsy md encourages use
lese stufing with various properties that
bulge.
complete golfng suit consists of five
pieces, and hence an excuse for the big
prices some tailors ask. A skirt, shirt
waistcoat, coat and cape is the full golf
ing equipment for go. The skirt coat, and
cape should be cut from one piece the
waistcoat ought 10 show gay plaid fronts
on an equally gay silk back, and the shirt
is any cotton you please.
A number of Englishwomen have set the
fashion Of doffing the coat or cape on the
green and playing in shirt sleeves and
waistcoat, and very often the waistcoat
is a flaming hunters pink or dazzling
meadow green cashmere with rows OF
gilt buttons down the front and gilt
buckle In the strap behind. Such waist
coats, of course, have no sleeves and are
low cut In front, to enable enyious admir-
ers to relish the color of the smart shirt
waist underneath.
The caddy IS supposed, where the waist
coat is so prominently involved, to carry
the players cape about, and this she filings
over her shoulders when she rests. Her
!aunty coat is only put on when she is
ready to drop into the clubhouse for cup
OF tea OF d drive, wolk, or take the train
home. The skirts are unusually short
this year, or inches from the ground.
and the coats run through a variety of
gx.t,.
cut at the hip line, few are cut sharply
away, or buttoned over double-breasted,
with rounded, square, OF pointed flaps
hanging like an apron or stole ends far
below the waist line.
Gray covering, brown Amazon cloth.
serge, and the Scotch wool cheviot mix
lures are all popular goods. and the per-
Gale and gingham shirt, with their new
ties, appear supreme. word is necessa-
ry, OF course, concerning golhng gloves
and hats and shoes. Antelope and beauti-
fully dressed baby Kangaroo skin are
prime fayorites with the club-swinging sis
terhood who wear gloves on the links. All
these, OF course, button at the back of the
wrist. are open on the knuckles and the
palms are properly corrugated with little
horizontal lines of white rubber, to give
the proper grip without a slip. You can
also buy very modish Antelope gloves OF
just one buttons length to wear with
your fine golfng suit when you are not
playing.
The woman who looks on wears a brown
or gray csmers-hair felt slouch or AL
pine hat trimmed very smartly with a
scarf Of creamy lace and one fierce eagle
feather on the crown, or the whole left
side OF the crown is covered with a show
er of languid necked deeply purple yio-
lets.
The really truly golfer. who makes long
drives and sharp putting strokes. takes
kindly TO light cap cut almost on the
shape of that a master Of the fox hounds
wears in England, and made OF bit of
the stuff that composes her skirt. Golfing
shoes are high or low cut as you please,
and the handsomest are made OF very
dark brown leather with uppers of cloth
The shape of mans cricketing shoe. hav-
ing big rubber plugs or genuine hob nails
In the prodigious sole, are almost irresisti-
Bile to the sporting women: those who have
an eye to their looks wear brown ties with
the tops OF brown cloth picked out in small
black figures.
All that is said Of the goling woman ap-
plies 10 the cycling sister. and many a
lady salt will steer her prov through the
foam in her trusty golfng toggery Many
yachting dresses, already under way for
the opening season, have overdresses
That is to say. the skirt OF serge or French
vigoreux is encircled with diminishing
braids well up above the knee and then
over this in front drops triangle of goods
like an extended and very pointed apron
The coat worn with this will have sailor
collar rolling back over the shoulders and
extending down in pointed fronts well
below the waist line. Collars OF rich and
brilliant silk are set on coats of the dark
ct blue goods, and In sharp contradiction