The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-30
THE PRETTY PARASOL
How the Summer Girls Are
Dazzling Young
Men.

In these warm days, when the sum-
mer girl, having gotten together a
wardrobe which she deems capable of
dazzling masculine eyes at either the
.seashore or in the mountains, starts for
her short but glorious campaign in the
world of Irritation. She carries with
her, as the most useful and at the same
time charming accessories to her per-
feet toilettes, any number of parasols
and fancy umbrellas. These are in all
colors and combinations of shades, but
each conforms in a vague, yet to the
initiated easily recognizable, manner
to the acknowledged style of the sea-
crashing they may appear to those of
conservative tastes, there is never an
opportunity to designate them as cold
fashioned"
For morning my lady of the coquet-
fish propensities carries with her sim
pie frocks sun umbrella made of some
| bright-hued taffeta silk, which is very
| rich and stiff, and widely different from
| the soft variety popular last year, that
harmonizes or contrasts pleasingly
with the remainder of the costume, and,
| in most cases, the Innings are formed
of either White, apple green or pale pink
| silk, with several ruffles edging the in
| ner side, thus giving a touch of the
eternal feminine to the rather mascu-
| line-looking exterior, with its plain
| hemstitched finish. Green and white
| striped taffetas over plain white corded
silk, with long handle of Arabian vine
| in the natural shape, but dyed a dark
| er green adorned the frame of an UNI
| brella ordered by a Baltimore woman,
| who, whether driving, walking or
| lounging on the beach, is al
| ways irreproachably "parasoled,"
| if one may venture to coin
/ that most expressing term while near
| it, in one of her large packing trunks,
| lay one of royal purple silk, with a
| handle of purple blondell wood in its
/ rough state, which emits the most de-
| lightful perfume imaginable. In no in
stance are the most fashionable UNI
| brellas for summer use jeweled heav-
+ lily or adorned with very large guam
| tity of gold or silver, but, instead, when
the jolly maidens and married women
| throw aside the more elaborate gowns
| of the colder season for dainty and
seemingly cheaper ones to be worn
| "out of town." they discard also the in
| looking handles for those more simple
in appearance. Yet often they have
been purchased in Naples, where the
dark-scented woods are shown in many
shops; in the far east during globe
| trotting'' exhibition, or picked up some
! sunny day in an out-of-the-way corner
| of the old world and treasured care
| fully to be brought back and used to
ornament an umbrella Of home manu-
| I, fpo Toll ct1r,n III
| memories, possibly fraught with senti-
mental interests, with financial regrets.
For they generally prove delusion
and a snare, where economy is con-
cerned, and the woman who, with true
lshopping instinct, purchases the handle
and waits until her arrival on this side
the pond to have, it attached" gem
orally discovers when the dainty affair
is completed that it was as an old
time darkeyt expressed it., mot so
Emonstrous cheap after all"
| The brighter colors are popular, but
black and white and purple are haV-
ling a phenomenal run with old and
young and middle-aged and not only
are they found to go well with almost
any gown, and, therefore, veritable
| boon to her whose pocketbook is often
lin depleted condition, but they are
very becoming, and this fact once hav-
ing been discovered, they arrived" as
the French say, and are here to stay
Yet II is not only in color that the
thousands of parasols displayed at
beach resorts differ in appearance
Blondes and brunettes invariably use
distinctive styles, and, in the former
case, tortoise shell, with pale blue
Isilk, is much used, while the dark eyed
beauties affect vanishing pink or old
rose Innings under some deep rich color,
while their fingers caress a carved
stick of burnt ivory or weichsel wood,
which last named is highly perfumed
and OF cherry color. Laces, held to-
gether by bands Of narrow ribbon vel
vet, in black, with circular tufted
piece of white 1nousseline surrounding
the top and enclosing knob of purple
wood or Of crystal, are IN the ward
robes Of the society leader who has just
a sign Of times footsteps around her
leyes, while. for the debutante, sombre
black also is au fat, but with a dash
Of color or sufficient white to furnish