The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-09
WHAT TO WEAR TO EUROPE.
How to Secure Comfort With a Minimum
of Luggage.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
Ihere are numerous bands of tourists
who are going across the Atlantic. and
to them the eternal feminine question
OF what to wear with the maximum
OF comfort and the minimum of in
convenience is uppermost.
1t is always assumed when one is in
quandary as to the proper outfit for
European travel that the contemplated
trip is to be a steamer trunk trip.
which means long distances and short
stops. When one is going to take the
usual tourist voyage, a couple or three
months trip, with one night and two
day stands, it is remarkable with how
little in the way of change one can get
along outside wraps for shipboard
and steamer rugs are, of course, not
included in this assertive statement,
for the reasont that they can be left
behind with the steamship company on
arrival on the other side, to be called
for or sent as directed.
1t is assumed that the steamer trunk
is to contain all ones temporary pos
sessions in the way of the wardrobe,
and that ones journey will include
Scotland, northern England, northern
Ireland and Germany, where one Is apt
to encounter considerable cool weather,
as we'll as Swiss valleys, Paris, London
and Italy-a variety of temperature to
The most serviceable travelling dress
for such jaunt is lightweight. close
woven goods, of some unshrinkable or
already shrunk fabric. Continental
countries are proyerbial for their I'M
certainty of summer showers, and in
Scotland every day nearly sees its rain
fall or a thick mist so if one does not
attend to this seemingly unimportant
item, she may find her one gown leay-
ing it's prescribed limit of length with
out excuse. The travelling gown should
have a close-fitting waist, and also a
silk waist of light, if possible washable
material With this and a light over
Jacket one is prepared for all emergen-
cies.
The shirt waist is a good article to
avoid. Unless freshly Numbered it is
an eyesore, and heated compartment
cars, dusty stations and daily flag of
sightseeing are apt to render it unfit
for public society. Carefully slowed
away in a steamer trunk should be a
more elaborate toilet for dress occa-
sions, at dinner on board ship, in Paris
and London, where one Is sure to meet
or make friends, and for the special
occasions which may arise when 1t is
absolutely necessary that gown and
bonnet shall be irreproachable One
cannot depend on buying what is nee
essary when one arrives. In July and
August the stores and shops of Lon
don and Paris are much as they are
here-filled with summer goods which
1t is getting too late to buy, while the
early fall goods have not yet made their
appearance.
Underwear, shoes, the bric-a-brac of
toilet can be left to the discretion of the
traveller and the amount of space in the
tiny trunk after these other require
ments are answered. But with these
few articles one can be assured of en-
joying her trip, secure in the consciou-
ness of being prepared for all times
and weathers.
Ones hat should not be trimmed with
feathers and flowers, both of which are
ruined by dampness and dust Stiff
ribbon bows with wings or single stiff
plumes are the best garniture. The
| steamer hat or cap should be taken
| along to wear on the cars, boats, ETC.,
| and will serve as storm hat when the
| weather is unpropitious and there is
| still one last cathedral to visit.