Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-29
THE NEW PARASOL.
1t Comes in Odd Combinations and
EAquisite COlOrinEs.

Exquisite COlorings.
From the Philadelphia Press
1t has come to a pass that you buy your
parasol cover as you purchase new dress
for yourself. If you want your parasol to
go out on cloudy day you get dark wash
silk cover for it. If it is to do all its travel
ing at the seashore on a sunshiny day, you
provide it with a trousseau of many colors.
You can get a white chiffon cover for
your parasol trimmed around the ferule
with ruftie, which is gathered with baby
ribbon. Another ruffie will trim the top or
outer rim of the parasol. You can also buy
dotted null cover trimmed with lace ruff
fles, the rufffes falling one over the other
until the parasol Is all covered. You can
buy silk covers of every color to match
your different gowns, and each cover will
have its ruff1es of chiffon and lace.
If you inquire the price of these parasol
dresses you may find the figure rather large.
They not cheap by any means. but the
redeeming feature is that You can make
one at home, and thus you can have very
nice parasol for very small sum. The
shops are selling now at very low figures
when workmanship is counted.
But in making your own parasol cover
take the advice of a 9Th avenue maker,
who gets up these covers by the half dozen
for her Newport patrons.
Choose the thinnest material; lisse IS
very good Get it the right width. This
can be ascertaine0 by measuring your para
sol Open it and stretch a tape measure
from the middle to the outside edge, or
from the end of the ferule to one of the
tips; add three inches. Select goods that
width.
Cut off a piece at least two yards long;
better three. Sometimes, if | am handling
chiffon, l use four yards. Sew it together
until it is an endless piece
Vow gather it around the top, using
white baby ribbon. Leave a ruffie. Gather
it also around the outside edge, using baby
ribbon for this purpose.
Nov dress your parasol. Slip the cover
over the paras0l and tie it with the baby
ribbon tightly around the ferule.
Dispose the gathers evenly around the
edge and tie the baby ribbon in tiny bow
Next take several tiny pieces of baby
ribbon and run through the chiffon. Tie
around the ends of the ribs inViSiby.
When you have made q deep ruffie of
lisse or chiffon sew it upon the outside rim
of the parasol in such a way that it will
fall over the face when one is carrying it.
Many covers are made, but all the success
full ones are upon this pattern
1t is to be decidedly a parasol summer.
the parasol being carried as an ornament
like fan even when not in use. With this
the case it becomes matter of taste to
match the parasOl TO the suit, or at least
TO the bodice.
Some of them are absolutely bewildering
in their variety of trimming.
The paraSols are bcwildering in puffs, ruff
fes, lace. applique and artificial flounces,
but white seems to be the prevailing color.
You can match your dresses by adding
fiOunces to correspond in color but the chif-
fOn paraSOl must be white.
A dainty parasol was made half way OF
pompadOur silk; white with festoons of pink
roses The rest of the parasol was covered
with smoothly drawn mousseline applqued
with white lace and edged with a tiny ruch-
ing of mousseline. The wire frame inside
was covered with tiny ruff1e of pink chif-
fon forming a most becoming background.
Another in the same style was half covered
with puffings of white chiffon above the
mpusselne embroidered in silver seduins.
Handles are Of light natural wood some
times but oftener of mother-Of-pearl. cary
ed ivory or Dresden china mounted in sill
YER Long fiat handles are used almost
exclusively.
Many parasols are trimmed on the inside
instead of the outside, but the inside trim
nlings prevent the closing of the parasol
except in a bunglng way. They are used
for the afternoon promenade. Chiffon rut-
1es and soft roses are best adapted TO the
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